| Acronym | Meaning |
| ATSDR | Agency For Toxic Substances And Disease Registry |
| FEEM | Field Electron Emission Microscopy |
| HECD | Hall Electrolytic Conductivity Detector |
| RPECVD | Remote Plasma-enhanced Chemical-vapor Deposition |
| OSTP | Office Of Science And Technology Policy |
| PIUG | Patent Information Users Group |
| PIDAS | Portable Instantaneous Display And Analysis Spectrometer |
| LSM | Laser Scanning Microscopy |
| OCSC | Orbital-charge-self-consistent (in Electronic State Calcn.) |
| FPKKR | Full-potential Korring-Kohn-Rostoker |