The Very Unhelpful List of Scientific Units

Abampere Abbe Acid number Acoustic comfort Acoustic ohm Acre Acre foot Albert Alcohol unit Alfven number Amagat unit American run Ampere Ampere turn Ångström API gravity degree Apostilb Apothecaries weight Arcmin Arc Assay ton Astronomical unit Atmo-metre Atmosphere Atomic mass unit Atomic number Avoirdupois weight B unit Balling Ball Balmer Bar Barad Bark Barn Baromil Barrel Barye Base box Baud Baumé Becquerel Bel Benz Beranek scale Bes BeV Bicron Binocular number Biot Nusselt number Bit Brinell number British thermal unit Brix Bushel Byte Cable Callier coefficient Calorie Candela Candle Candle power Carat Carcel Cascade unit Cé Celo Celsius Cent Cental Centihg Centigrade Centimetre Centner Centrad Century Cetane Chad Chain Chill factor Chroma Chronon Circular mil Clark degree Clausius Cleanliness unit Clo Cloud cover Clusec Comfort index Condensation number Cord Coulomb Cowling number Cran Crinal Crith Crocodile Cron Cubit Cumec Curie Cusec D unit Dalton Daraf Darcy Darwin Day Dean number Decade Debye unit Decibel Decilit Decilog Decilu Decomlog Decontamination factor Degré Degree Demal Denier Dex Dioptre Dobson unit Dollar Donkey power Dram Drachm Drex Duffieux Duty Dycas Dynamode Dyne E unit Einstein unit Ekman number Electron volt Ell Eman Engler degree English degree Enzyme unit Eon Eotvos unit Erg Ergon Erlang Euler number F number Farad Faraday Fathom Fermi Fineness Finsen unit Firkin Flux unit Foaminess Fog index Foot Foot-candle Foot-lambert Foot pound Fors Fourier Francoer scale Franklin Fraunhofer French French degree French vibration Fresnel Frigorie Fringe value Froude number Funal Furlong G scale G value Gal Galileo Gallon Galvat Gamma Gammil Gauss Gee pound Gemmho Gev Gibbs Gilbert Gill Glug Gon Googol Gouy Grade Grad Graetz number Grain Gram Gram-rad Gram-roentgen Grashof number Grave Gray Hand Happiness index Hardness numbers Hardness Hartley Hartmann number Hartree Haze factor Head of liquid Heat stress index Heat transfer factor Hectare Hectopascal Hedstrom number Hefnerkerze Hehner number Helmholtz Henry Herschel Hertz Hogshead Horse power Hour Hubble Hundredweight Hydrogen scale Hydron Inch Inferno Inhour Instant Intrinsic viscosity Ionic strength Jansky Jar Jerk Joule K factor Kanne Kapp line Kayser Kelvin Kerma Kilocalorie Kilogram Kilowatt hour Kine Kintal Kip Knot Knoop scale Knudsen number Konig Krebs unit Kunitz unit Lambda Lambert Langley League Lentor Leo Lewis number Light watt Light year Line Link Litre Logit Loudness unit Lumberg Lumen Lumen-hour Lumerg Luner month Lundquist number Lunge Lusec Lux Luxon M value Mach number Mache unit MacMichael degree McLeod Magic number Magneton Marangoli number Margules number Maxwell Mayer Mechanical ohm Megaton Mel Met Metre Metric slug Mev Meyer number Mho Mic Micri-erg Micril Micron Mil Mile Miller indices Millard Millicuries-destroyed Millier Millig Millihg Minute Mired Misery index Mitotic index Mohm Mohr cubic centimetre Mohs' scale Mol Molal Molality Molar fraction Molar volume Molarity Mole Moment Momme Mon Month Mooney unit Morgan Moszkowski unit Mug Musical scales N unit Nanon Nautical mile Neper Nepit New candle Newton Nile Nit Noggin Nox Noy Nu value Number density Nusselt number Octane number Octet Oersted Oerstedt Ohm Ohma Ohmad Open window unit Optical density Osmole Ounce Paper size Par Parker Parsec Particle size Pascal Pascal second Pastille dose Peck Peclet number Pencil hardness Perch Permicron pH index Phon Phot Photon Pica Pieze Pint Planck Point Poise Pole Pollen count Poncelet Pond Postages Poumar Pound Poundal Power factor Pragilbert Praoersted Prandtl number Preece Priest Prism dioptre Promaxwell Proof Prout Puff Pulsatance Pyron Q factor Q unit Q-value Quad Quadrant Quantum Quart Quevenne scale Quintal R unit R-value Rad Radian Radiation unit Ram Rank Rankine scale Rayl Rayleigh Reactivity units Réaumur scale Redwood second Refractive index Rem Rep Reyn Reynolds' number Rhe Rhm Richardson number Richter scale Richtstrahlwert Roc Rockwell number Rod Roentgen Rossby number Round Rowland Rum Rutherford Rydberg SAE number Sabine Savart Saybolt second Schmidt number Screw thread Secohm Second Sensation unit Shackle Shed Shower unit Siegbahn unit Siemens Sieve number Sievert Sign Sikes Siriometer Siriusweit Skewes number Skot Slug Snellen Sol Sone Soxhlet scale Span Spat Square degree Square grade Stab Stadia Standard atmosphere Standard cable Standard gravity Standard illuminants Standard volume Stanton number Star magnitude Stat Statampere Stathm Staudinger value Steradian Stere Sthéne Stigma Stilb Stoke Stone Strich Strontium unit Strouhal number Sturgeon Sumner unit Sunspot number Survival ratio Svedberg Sverdrup T number Talbot Tempon Tenth metre Tesla Tex Therm Thermie Thou Thousandth mass unit Tissue roentgen TME Tog Toise Tolerance unit Ton Tonne Tor Torr Townsend Transmission unit Trichromatic unit Troland Troy weights Turnover number Twaddle Typp Tyre markings U factor Unit of activity Universal time Vac Var Verber Vergency Veith scale Violle Viscosity grades Viscosity index Voegtlin Volt Volume unit Watt Wavenumber Weber Weisskopf unit Whizz Wink Winter index Wobbe index Wood screw X unit Yard Yarn counts Year Young Zhubov scale