| Acronym | Meaning |
| PAC | Polycyclic Aromatic Compound |
| WORM | Write Once Read Many |
| GIFT | Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer |
| SOC | Synthetic Organic Chemical |
| RRS | Resonance Raman Spectroscopy |
| RER | Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum |
| TARFOX | Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observation Experiment |
| NIMR | National Institute For Medical Research |
| ICAM-1 | Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 |
| SCSOPW | Self-consistent Symmetrized Orthogonalized-plane-wave |