| Acronym | Meaning |
| ILZRO | International Lead Zinc Research Organization |
| MPR | Magnetic Permeability Resonance |
| LITD | Lased Induced Thermal Desorption |
| SECV | Standard Error Of Cross-validation |
| BOT | Build-operate-transfer [an Agreement Or Contract] |
| S-MPPT | Supermolecular Moeller-Plesset Perturbation Theory |
| HORSES | Higher-order Raman Spectral Excitation Studies |
| HPGE | High Purity Germanium |
| UKIRT | United Kingdom Infrared Telescope |
| IFOT | Invariant Fock Operator Technique |