| Acronym | Meaning |
| OMCVD | Organometallic Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| EDTA | Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid |
| CMA | Cylindrical Mirror Analyzer |
| FDA | Food And Drug Administration |
| ABSORB | Arctic Beaufort Sea Oilspill Research Body |
| RPD | Relative Percent Difference |
| MLD | Median Lethal Dose |
| HAZOP | Hazard And Operability Study |
| DIGGER | Discrete Isolation From Gradient-governed Elimination Of Resonances |
| AHP | Average Hole-potential (method For Electronic-structure Calcns. On Mols.) |