| Acronym | Meaning |
| CNDO/2-FA | Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap First Approxn. |
| RC(XI) | (fully) Correlated Relativistic Local-density |
| PXRD | Powder X-ray Diffraction |
| BCC | Brueckner Coupled Cluster |
| WEFT | Water Elimination By Fourier Transform |
| RSR | Rapid Solidification Rate |
| FAO | Food And Agriculture Organization |
| LASE | Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment |
| CND | Circumnuclear Disk |
| PSLC | Polymer-stabilized Liquid Crystal |