| Acronym | Meaning |
| FEMA | Flavor Extract Manufacturers Association |
| LOPT | Lowest-order Perturbation Theory |
| POC | Purgeable Organic Carbon |
| BLT | Bismuth Lanthanum Titanate |
| PKS | Polyketide Synthase |
| SLED | Superluminescent Light Emitting Diode |
| ODFS | Optimized Dirac-Fock-Slater |
| CHT | Continuous Heating Transformation [curing Diagram] |
| MCTDH/BSE | MCTDH (with) Basis Set Expansion |
| QDO | Quantum-defect Orbital (theory) |