| Acronym | Meaning |
| BOS | Basic Oxygen Steelmaking |
| EUSES | European Union System For Evaluation Of Substances |
| SLR | State And Local Relations |
| DCEP | Direct Current Electrode Positive |
| NTD | Nuclear Track Detector |
| NWR | Normotensive Wistar Rat |
| AIMP | Ab Initio Model Potential (for Valence-electron Mol. Calcns.) |
| TTS | T Tauri Star |
| MTB | Mycobacterium Tuberculosis |
| HIWIP | Homojunction Interfacial Work-function Internal Photoemission |