| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| BEAR | Berkeley Energy and Resources (Berkeley, CA) |
| BEAR | Basic Expeditionary Airfield Resources |
| BEAR | Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources |
| BEAR | Barents Euro-Arctic Region |
| BEAR | Be Excited About Reading (education) |
| BEAR | Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research (Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley, California) |
| BEAR | Business Expansion and Retention Program (Montana) |
| BEAR | Berkeley Aerobot (UC Berkeley, California) |
| BEAR | Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation |
| BEAR | Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket |
| BEAR | Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance |
| BEAR | Building Effective AIDS Response |
| BEAR | Basic Education And Research |
| BEAR | Boom Event Analyzer Recorder |
| BEAR | Bonus Extension and Retaining program (US Army) |
| BEAR | Bringing Empathy And Relief (effort to collect stuffed animals to give to families of September 11, 2001 attack victims) |