| Acronym | Meaning |
| SFCCCC | Space-fixed Complex-coordinate Coupled-channel Method |
| (PI)SDCI | (pi)-electron Singly And Doubly Excited CI |
| SSL | Spent Sulfite Liquor |
| VDU | Visual Display Unit |
| RSMST | Real-space Multiple-scattering Theory (in Electronic Structure) |
| FGGE | First GARP Global Experiment |
| MIPS | Munich Information Center For Protein Sequences |
| TEOM | Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance |
| CITS | Current-imaging Tunneling Spectroscopy |
| CCMST | Co-ordinating Committee On Marine Science And Technology (UK) |