| Acronym | Meaning |
| OUST | Office Of Underground Storage Tanks |
| MEPED | Medium Energy Proton & Electron Detector |
| QTPT | Quantum Thermodynamic Perturbation Theory |
| FGHAZ | Fine Grain Heat-affected Zone |
| ACH | Air Changes Per Hour |
| AS | Activated Sludge |
| GCECD | Gas Chromatography Electron Capture Detector |
| PRINS | Primed In Situ DNA Synthesis |
| SODW | Second-order Distorted Wave (in Electron-atom Scattering) |
| EVLSM | Evanescent Wave Light-scattering Microscopy |