| Acronym | Meaning |
| CSO | Combined Sewage Overflow(s) |
| OTEC | Open Tubular Electrochromatography |
| OWLS | Optical Waveguide Lightmode Spectroscopy |
| QRM | Quadratic Rubinow Method (variational Method For Scattering) |
| FAP | Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy |
| CSP | Computational Singular Perturbation (math Modeling Method) |
| SLP | Sea Level Pressure |
| GFEMO | Generalized Free Electron Molecular Orbital |
| LULU | Locally Undesirable Land Use |
| GVB-INIT | Generalized Valence Bond-initial (guess Wave Function) |