| Acronym | Meaning |
| PA/SI | Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection |
| QAMS | Quality Assurance Management Staff (US EPA) |
| LPA | Lysophosphatidic Acid |
| SC-MBPT | Single-configuration Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| SEMI | Semiconductor Equipment And Materials Institute |
| RFPS | Radio-frequency Plasma Spraying |
| NADA | New Animal Drug Application |
| BBIC | Bioluminescent Bioreporter Integrated Circuits |
| TCOD | Total Chemical Oxygen Demand |
| SPF | Simons-Parr-Finlan (potential Function) |