| Acronym | Meaning |
| NCTR | National Center For Toxicological Research |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| BLP | Bragg Light Profile |
| WORM | Write Once Read Many |
| RUDAD | RUmen-Derived Anaerobic Digester |
| LLE | Liquid Liquid Extraction |
| NIR | Near Infrared |
| CVBM | Conduction-valence-band Model (in Electronic Structure Calcns.) |
| CPCCSD | Coupled-perturbed Coupled-cluster (with) Single (and) Double Excitation |
| CDSI | Committee On The Dissemination Of Scientific Information |