| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACSH | American Council On Science And Health |
| VSTA | Virus-Serum-Toxin Act |
| BIFL | Burst Integrated Fluorescence Lifetime |
| SERDP | Strategic Environmental Research And Development Program |
| PCN | Polychlorinated Naphthalene |
| SPALEED | Spot Profile Analysis Low Energy Electron Diffraction |
| ARIES | Advanced Recovery And Integrated Extraction System |
| GHF | Generalized Hellmann-Feynman (theorem) |
| HCSEL | Horizontal Cavity Surface Emitting Laser |
| ADI | Alternating Direction Implicit (method) |