| Acronym | Meaning |
| HAA | Heterocyclic Aromatic Amine |
| FCCP | Trifluoromethoxy Carbonylcyanide Phenylhydrazone |
| AWRG | Acid Waters Review Group (UK) |
| SEDAC | Socioeconomic Data And Applications Center |
| MBS | Minimum Basis Set Wave Function |
| UTI | Urinary Trypsin Inhibitor |
| NTB | Nonorthogonal Tight-binding |
| SSDW | Static-static Distorted-wave (method) |
| IAP | Imaging Atom Probe |
| ZOAO | Zero Overlap Of Atomic Orbital Approxn. |