| Acronym | Meaning |
| OMCVD | Organometallic Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| DAW | Dry Active Waste |
| PSU | Practical Salinity Units |
| CDW | Circumpolar Deep Water |
| ASTDR | Agency For Toxic Substances And Disease Registry |
| EGM | Electron Gas Model |
| FAD | Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide |
| PETN | Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate |
| TDFM | Two-surface Dirac-Frenkel-Mclachlan (variational Method) |
| ATF | Activating Transcription Factor |