| Acronym | Meaning |
| MCVD | Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| NCHS | National Center For Health Statistics |
| ELH | Egg-laying Hormone |
| MBER | Molecular Beam Electron Resonance |
| MEDO | Multipole Expansion Of Diatomic Overlap Approximation |
| BGO | Bismuth Germanium Oxide |
| TOCSY | Total Correlation Spectroscopy |
| SBH | Schottky-barrier Height |
| DDIM | Dry Deposition Inferential Monitoring |
| XMPA | X-ray Electron Microprobe Analysis |