| Acronym | Meaning |
| HWCVD | Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition |
| SPIPES | Spin Polarized Inverse Photoemission Spectroscopy |
| MWH | Mulliken-Wolfsberg-Helmholz (molecular Orbital Method) |
| RTFDW | Relativistic Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-Weizsaecker (electron-d. Theory) |
| SMBC | Simulated Moving Bed Chromatography |
| AGP | Alpha-1-acid Glycoprotein |
| PPC | Polypropylene Carbonate |
| DPT | Direct Perturbation Theory |
| COA | Coenzyme A |
| CARS | Corrective Action Reporting System (now Known As RCRIS) |