| Acronym | Meaning |
| CAK | Cdk-activating Kinase |
| DAF | Decay-accelerating Factor |
| DH | Dortmund-Hoerder (German Vacuum Steel Refining) |
| ROG | Reactive Organic Gas |
| ESC | Endometrial Stromal Cell |
| SOMBT | Spin-orbital Many-body Theory |
| TGGE | Temperature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis |
| ISIRS | International Sorption Information Retrieval System |
| IBA | Ion Beam Analysis |
| LAP | Laboratory Accreditation Program |