| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFPAL | Air Force Phillips Astronautics Laboratory (USA) |
| PCPI | Permanent Committee On Patent Information |
| ICSS | Isobaric Crystallization From Supercritical Solution |
| CANDI | Carbon And Nutrient Diagenesis |
| POHC | Principal Organic Hazardous Constituents |
| RKRVL | Rydberg-Klein-Rees-Vanderslice-Lakshman (for Potential Energy) |
| ELF | Extremely Low Frequency |
| NPCR | Nonlinear Principal Components Regression |
| SIRM | Scanning Infrared Microscope |
| AR | Androgen Receptorpar |