| Acronym | Meaning |
| ANATEX | Across North America Tracer Experiment |
| HSS | High-speed Steel |
| NIOSH | National Institute For Occupational Safety And Health |
| MIDAS | Model Of Ion Dynamics And Acidification Of Soil |
| CMBR | Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation |
| TDS | Thermal Desorption Spectrometry |
| SMSI | Strong Metal-support Interaction |
| NWC | National Water Council (UK) |
| EPFM | Elasto-plastic Fracture Mechanics |
| DQFCOSY | Double-quantum-filtered Correlation Spectroscopy |