| Acronym | Meaning |
| WAPS | Waste Acceptance Preliminary Specification |
| STD | Sexually Transmitted Disease |
| GPS | Generalized Phase Shift Formalism |
| GDAAS | Glow Discharge Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| LTMLS | Low Temperature Molecular Luminescence Spectroscopy |
| PFPD | Pulsed-flame Photometer Detector |
| TATP | Triacetone Triperoxide |
| CADE | Computer Aided Deposit Evaluation |
| HFRSPT | Hartree-Fock Rayleigh-Schroedinger Perturbation Theory |
| RXF | Refracted X-ray Fluorescence |