| Acronym | Meaning |
| NWWA | National Water Well Association |
| BOAW | Bond-order Alternation Wave |
| AES | Auger Emission Spectroscopy |
| EIES | Electron Impact Emission Spectroscopy |
| DFFT | Double Forward Fourier Transformation |
| ASPCR | Allele-specific Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| GASP | Gamma Astronomy At The South Pole |
| BMAW | Bare Metal Arc Welding |
| TRIM | Total Risk Integrated Methodology |
| SNL | Sandia National Laboratory |