| Acronym | Meaning |
| BPWTT | Best Practical Wastewater Treatment Technology |
| ATLAS | Airborne Tunable Laser Absorption Spectrometer |
| LST | Light Scattering Tomography |
| AFV | Alternatively Fueled Vehicle |
| RCA | Rolling-circle Amplification |
| PBX | Plastic Bonded Explosive |
| FIK | Field Ionization Kinetics |
| DLVO | Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, And Overbeek Theory |
| LNT | Liquid Nitrogen Temperature |
| AUSB | Aerobic Upflow Sludge Blanket |