| Acronym | Meaning |
| BOE | Buffered Oxide Etch |
| MELISA | Multianalyte Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay |
| AABW | Antarctic Bottom Water |
| RMM | Relative Molecular Mass |
| DZD | (double Zeta)-diffuse (basis Set In Configuration-mixing MO Calcns. On Mols.) |
| FPP | Fertilization Promoting Peptide |
| ESM | Exponential-series Method |
| REMOTS | Remote Ecological Monitoring Of The Seafloor |
| GLAO | Generalized Localized Ao |
| TIGER | Technique For Importing Greater Evolution Resolution In Multidimensional NMR |