| Acronym | Meaning |
| FCCSET | Federal Coordinating Council On Science |
| EROS | Electric Resonance Optothermal Spectrometer |
| BDST | Bed-depth Service Time |
| CFTR | Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator |
| CFM | Continued-fraction Method |
| OWLS | Optical Waveguide Lightmode Spectroscopy |
| QFD | Quantum Fluid Dynamics |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| CHMOS | Complementary High-performance Metal-oxide Semiconductor |
| ACE | Angiotensin-converting Enzyme |