| Acronym | Meaning |
| LVAD | Left Ventricular Assist Device |
| FINES | Furnace Ionization Nonthermal Excitation Spectrometry |
| NRC | Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| CLIPS | Chemical List Index And Processing System |
| RECA | Regional Energy Convergence Approxn. (in Total Energies Calcns.) |
| HCO | Heavy Cycle Oil |
| DCBOX | Distorted Coulomb-Born No-exchange Approxn. |
| WDXRF | Wavelength Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence |
| OLGA | On-Line Gas Chemistry Apparatus |
| BOCLE | Ball-on Cylinder Lubricity Evaluator |