| Acronym | Meaning |
| SBCOD | Slowly Biodegradable Chemical Oxygen Demand |
| DLPCB | Dioxin-like Polychlorinated Biphenyl |
| VSEPR | Valence-shell Electron-pair Repulsion |
| CHEC | Commonwealth Human Ecology Council |
| QLGM | Quantum Lattice Gas Model (in Helium Superfluid Transition Temperature In Zeolite Pores) |
| LTO | Laguerre-type Orbital (an Ao) |
| WHAM | Windermere Humic Aq. Acid Model |
| PWIA | Plane-wave Impulse Approximation |
| EDSTAC | Endocrine Disruptor Screening And Testing Advisory Committee |
| EFOCS | Evanescent Fiber Optic Chemical Sensors |