| Acronym | Meaning |
| CDW | Continuum Distorted Wave |
| TMR | Tunneling Magnetoresistance |
| CAPTEX | Cross-Appalachian Tracer Experiment |
| NIDDM | Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus |
| AMTEC | Alkali Metal Thermoelectric Converter |
| CVTST | Canonical Variational Transition-state Theory |
| LCTAO | Linear Combination Of Traveling Atomic Orbitals |
| WSOEA | Wallace Second-order Eikonal Approximation |
| PA/SI | Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection |
| PHRED | Public Health Risk Evaluation Data |