| Acronym | Meaning |
| DMC | Dough Molding Compound |
| EBSM | Extended Breathing Shell Model |
| CUTLASS | Co-operative UK Twin-Located Auroral Sounding System |
| CAL | Central Analytical Laboratory |
| APUHF | Approximately Projected Unrestricted Hartree-Fock |
| VMS | Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide |
| AFGP | Antifreeze Glycoprotein |
| ISEC | Inverse Steric Exclusion Chromatography |
| AES | Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
| SPHEM | Superfund Public Health Evaluation Manual |