| Acronym | Meaning |
| SCRIMP | Seemann Composites Resin Infusion Under Flexible Tooling [plastics Molding] |
| SDY | Spin Drawn Yarn |
| BARC | Bottom Antireflective Coating |
| SC-1 | Standard Clean Solution #1 |
| MBE | Many-body Expansion (in Mol. Potential Energy Surface Calcn.) |
| ARXAS | Angle-resolved X-ray Absorption |
| MQW | Multiple Quantum Well |
| IRIS | Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer |
| CWC | United Nations Chemical Weapons Convention |
| HTLA | Heat-treatable Low Alloy (steel) |