| Acronym | Meaning |
| NCLAP | National Crop Loss Assessment Program |
| ADI | Austempered Ductile Iron |
| AFCRL | Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories |
| PASPE | Photochemically Accumulated Stimulated Photon Echo |
| PTMT | Poly (tetramethylene Terephthalate) |
| BMERC | BioMolecular Engineering Research Center |
| TAS | Total Analysis Systems |
| BHMT | Betaine-homocysteine Methyltransferase |
| BEHP | Bis(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate |
| XHV | Extremely High Vacuum |