| Acronym | Meaning |
| FPLH | Free-Phase Liquid Hydrocarbon |
| SDOSS | Sodium Dioctylsulfosuccinate |
| PEM | Pacific Exploratory Measurements |
| NLC | Noctilucent Cloud |
| PEBBLE | Probes Encapsulated By Biologically Localized Embedding |
| DQ-MBPT | Double And Quadruple Excitation Diagrams In Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| CFBC | Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion |
| CCPA | Cellular Coherent-potential Approximation (for Electronic Structure Calcns.) |
| CXAES | Continuous X-ray-induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| CRS | Controlled Release Society |