| Acronym | Meaning |
| FPPA | Federal Plant Pest Act |
| CSAAS | Continuum Source Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| HMBC | Heteronuclear Multiple-bond Correlation |
| AEM | Acoustic Emission Monitoring |
| IDOE | International Decade Of Ocean Exploration |
| FAM | Friable Asbestos-containing Material |
| PMA | Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association |
| COSPAR | Committee On Space Research |
| DSDV | Dirac-Slater Discrete Variational |
| HCN | US Historical Climatology Network |