| Acronym | Meaning |
| PDB | Potato Dextrose Broth |
| DWPL | Drinking Water Priority List |
| LALIF | Laser Atomization/Laser Induced Fluorescence |
| TSPA | Total System Performance Assessment |
| SENB | Single Edge Notched Beam |
| OB/OD | Open Burn/open Detonation |
| CHORTLE | Carbon-hydrogen Correlation From One-dimensional Polarization-transfer Spectra By Least-squares Analysis |
| MSA | Many-trajectory Semiclassical Approxn. (in At.-collision Theory) |
| AAHIS | Advanced Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging System |
| NABSA | Nucleic Acid Based Sequence Amplification |