| Acronym | Meaning |
| NEA | Nuclear Energy Agency |
| HOMBA | Higher-order Modified Born Approxn. (in Potential Scattering) |
| DSDP | Deep Sea Drilling Project |
| BDOC | Biodegradable Dissolved Organic Carbon |
| MASTER | Method Of Adhesion By Spin-on-dielectric Temperature Enhanced Reflow |
| ROSE | Residual Oil Supercritical Extraction |
| STEAM | Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange And Climate Monitor |
| ESIMS | Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry |
| CTBTO | Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization |
| DZP | (double Zeta)-polarization Contracted Gaussian Basis Set |