| Acronym | Meaning |
| MTC | Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma |
| CB2 | Second-order Coulomb Born |
| PTGS | Picosecond Transient Grating Spectroscopy |
| UKAS | United Kingdom Accreditation Service |
| FESTEM | Field-emission Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| MIQ | Minimum Identifiable Quantities |
| HMIS | Hazardous Material Identification System |
| OWG | Optical Waveguide |
| SPADE | Stratospheric Photochemistry |