| Acronym | Meaning |
| HSEES | Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance |
| MDSC | Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
| DIDG | Diisodecyl Glutarate |
| MQO | Measurement Quality Objective |
| PSMO | Pseudo MO |
| CRS | Coordinate-representation Sudden (decoupling Method For Mol. Inelastic Collisions) |
| PTC | Phase Transfer Catalysis |
| ARCS | Assessment And Remediation Of Contaminated Sediments |
| COC | Cleveland Open Cup (Flash Point Test Method) |
| TALEST | Tandem Arrayed Ligation Of Expressed Sequence Tags |