| Acronym | Meaning |
| CBC | Circulating Bed Combustor (or Incinerator) |
| FVC | Forced Vital Capacity (lung Function) |
| RLF | Radially Localized (wave) Function |
| FLPMA | Federal Land Policy And Management Act |
| HH-GLF | Hyperspherical Harmonic-generalized Laguerre Function |
| DVD | Digital Video Disk |
| PVAL | Polyvinyl Alcohol |
| BTEM | Band Target Entropy Minimization |
| SME | Static Model Exchange (approxn. In Electron-mol. Scattering) |
| SMM | Solar Maximum Mission |