| Acronym | Meaning |
| CTF | Contrast-transfer Function |
| PVA | Polyvinyl Alcohol |
| NBS | Nuclear Backscattering Spectroscopy |
| MCDF | Multi-configuration Dirac-Fock |
| ONBI | Oligonucleotide Bridge Intercalator |
| FO-NACME | First-order Nonadiabatic Coupling Matrix Elements |
| FSTRAC | Federal-State Toxicology And Risk Analysis Committee |
| IRES | Internal Ribosome Entry Site |
| STEM | Scaled Taylor Exponential Model |
| MC-INDO | Mol. Cluster-intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap |