| Acronym | Meaning |
| WAO | Wet Air Oxidation |
| SRM | Standard Reference Material |
| DMU | WOCE Data Management Unit (USA) (now Part Of DIU) |
| TESS | Transform Method For Extinction-scattering With Spatial Resoln. |
| CCEA | Conventional Combustion Environmental Assessment |
| TSDIA | Two-scale Direct-interaction Approximation [in Flow Energy Modeling] |
| GVP | Gasoline Vapor Pressure |
| UHE | Ultra-high Energy |
| CRDA | Cooperative Research And Development Agreement |
| DOP | Degree Of Pyritization |