| Acronym | Meaning |
| RFI | RCRA Facility Investigation |
| STA | Simultaneous Thermal Analysis |
| SBH | Sequencing By Hybridization |
| COS | Cosmic Origins Spectrograph |
| SQF | Second-quantized Formulation (in Many-body Quantum Theory) |
| ACE | Alternating Conditional Expectations |
| CEOOWG | Commercial Earth And Ocean Observations Working Group |
| BBGKY | Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon Equations (in Kinetic Theory Of Fluids) |
| IKES | Ion-kinetic-energy Spectroscopy |
| OTFT | Organic Thin-film Transistor |