| Acronym | Meaning |
| DCPAES | Direct Current Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry |
| NBC | Nuclear, Biological And Chemical |
| CCMC | Coupled-cluster Method With Multiconfiguration Reference State |
| PDMEE | Primary-beam Diffraction Modulated Electron Emission |
| CMI | Cell-mediated Immunity |
| DIC | Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation |
| EBIR | Energy Based Integral Retention (in Electronic-structure Calcns.) |
| CFSL | Cavitation-field Sonoluminescence |
| DSPC | Distearoyl Phosphatidylcholine |
| NRMRL | National Risk Management Research Laboratory |