| Acronym | Meaning |
| DAM | Military Applications Branch (French; Direction Des Applications Militaires) |
| EMIC | Environmental Mutagen Information Center Database (NLM) |
| WOUDC | World Ozone And UV Data Center |
| COSS | Correlation Shift Scaling |
| LTTD | Low Temperature Thermal Desorption |
| TFDW | Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-Von Weizsaecker (method For Electronic Structure Calcns. On Mols.) |
| NIRMS | Noble Gas-ion Reflection Mass Spectrometry |
| CAOS | Computer Assisted Organic Synthesis |
| LCR | Ligase Chain Reaction |
| AOB | Adiabatic Oxygen Bomb (calorimeter) |