| Acronym | Meaning |
| RREL | Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory |
| HMIG | Hazardous Materials Identification Guide |
| ESA | Electrokinetic Sonic Amplitude |
| MOFT | Minimum Oil Film Thickness |
| NVFRAM | Nonvolatile Ferroelectric Random Access Memory |
| DISC | Death-inducing Signaling Complex |
| DCTS | Discharging Current Transient Spectroscopy |
| JCPDS | Joint Committee On Powder Diffraction Standards |
| VRIOSA | Vibrational/rotational Infinite-order Sudden Approximation |
| SPEELS | Spin-polarized Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |