| Acronym | Meaning |
| DBR | Distributed Bragg Reflector |
| EPC | Evaporative Pattern Casting |
| NCPTT | National Center For Preservation Technology And Training |
| QEL | Quantity Exclusion Limit |
| SPIES | Surface Penning Ionization Electron Spectroscopy |
| NIXSW | Normal Incidence X-ray Standing Wave |
| EKC | Electrokinetic Chromatography |
| PITST | Path Integral Transition State Theory |
| CND | Circumnuclear Disk |
| SMMO | Strictly Monomer Molecular Orbital |