| Acronym | Meaning |
| EPTOX | Extraction Procedure Toxicity Test |
| MEECC | Microemulsion Electrokinetic Capillary Chromatography |
| SMB | Simulated Moving Bed |
| ASE | Activated Sludge Effluent |
| SALDI | Surface-assisted Laser Desorption/ionization |
| CIPW | Cross, Iddings, Pirrson, And Washington (for Geology Terminology) |
| LERS | Low-energy Recoil Scattering |
| HAEC | Human Artificial Episomal Chromosome |
| ASEMP | Active Sites Environmental Monitoring Program |
| FASEB | Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology |