| Acronym | Meaning |
| NAWQA | National Water Quality Assessment (US Geological Survey) |
| CEGB | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| BCIRA | British Cast Iron Research Association |
| TMOS | Tetramethyl Orthosilicate |
| B1B | (coulomb) Boundary-corrected First Born (for Scattering) |
| SPINDO | Spectroscopic Potentials Adjusted Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap |
| SUPREX | Stability Of Unpurified Proteins From Rates Of H/D Exchange |
| DHS | Department Of Health Services |
| SAR | Sequential Adiabatic Reduction |
| FTD | Flame Thermionic Detector (gas Chromatography) |