| Acronym | Meaning |
| CPR | Chemically Perturbed Region |
| BSE | Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy |
| ISPD | Ion-selective Photodiode |
| SIMS | Surface Impoundment Modeling System |
| SRB | Sulfate Reducing Bacteria |
| PRP | Platelet-rich Plasma |
| TEDOR | Transferred Echo Double Resonance |
| CISA | Continuum Intermediate-state Approxn. (for Scattering) |
| LCM | Life Cycle Management |
| EOR | Enhanced Oil Recovery |