| Acronym | Meaning |
| HWAC | Hazardous Waste Action Coalition |
| HAD | High Aluminum Defect |
| BCF | Bulked Continuous-filament |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| UW-PG | Uniformly Weighted Planar Grid (method In Calcns. Of Electron-momentum Distributions) |
| CLIP | Corticotropin-Like Intermediate-lobe Peptide |
| EDA | Ethylene Diamine |
| NLCR | Nonlinear Continuum Regression |
| CAM | Computer-aided Manufacturing |
| XMPA | X-ray Electron Microprobe Analysis |