List of acronyms: D

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter D.

For the purposes of this list:

  • acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars
  • initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee
  • pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
(a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome
(i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
(p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
(s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – Megahertz)

(Main list of acronyms)

DA
  • da – (s) Danish language (ISO 639-1 code) – deca
  • DA – (s) Denmark (FIPS 10-4 country code) – (i) Debtors Anonymous – (i) U.S. Department of the Army – District Attorney
  • DAB – Digital Audio Broadcasting
  • DACT – (i) Data Automated Communications Terminal – Dissimilar Air Combat Training
  • DADVSI – (i) Loi sur le droit d’auteur et les droits voisins dans la société de l’information (French, "Law on copyrights and related rights in the information society")
  • DAES – (i) Defence Acquisition Executive Summary – (UK MoD) Directorate of Analysis, Experimentation and Simulation
  • DAF – (a) Dissolved Air Flotation, a technique used in water treatment
  • DAFIF – (a) Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
  • DAK – (a) Disney's Animal Kingdom
  • DA&M – (i) (U.S.) Director, Administration & Management
  • dan – (s) Danish language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • DAO – (i) Division Ammunition Officer
  • DAQ – (p) Data acquisition – (i) Delivered Audio Quality
  • DARE – (a) Drug Abuse Resistance Education
  • DARO – (i/a) (U.S.) Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
  • DARPA – (a) U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • DART – (a) Disaster Assistance Response Team – Dublin Area Rapid Transit
  • DAS – (a) Defensive Aids Suite
  • DASD – (i) (U.S.) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
  • DASL – (i) Datapoint's Advanced Systems Language
  • DAU – (i) (U.S.) Defense Acquisition University
  • DAWN – (a) (U.S.) Drug Abuse Warning Network

DB
  • dB – (s) Decibel
  • Db – (s) Dubnium
  • DB – (i) Database – Deutsche Bahn
  • d/b/a – (i) doing business as
  • DBA – (i) De Bellis Antiquitatis (miniature wargaming rules)
  • DBBL – (i) (U.S. Army Simulation Center) Dismounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory
  • DBCS – (i) Double Byte Character Set
  • DBDO – (i) Desert BDO
  • DBE – (i) Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • DBF – (i) Detection By Fire (weapon launch signature)
  • DBM – (i) De Bellis Multitudinis (miniature wargaming rules) – Detection By Movement (military target)
  • DBR – (i) De Bellis Renationis (miniature wargaming rules)
  • DBRA – (i) Davis-Bacon Related Acts
  • DBS – (i) Direct Broadcast Services (television)

DC

DD
  • DD – many, including due diligence and dear daughter (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists, blogs, and bulletin boards); see entry
  • D&D
    • (i) Dungeons and Dragons
    • Diversion and Distress (Air Traffic Control)
  • DDA
    • (i) Digital Differential Analyzer (graphics algorithm)
    • Digital Differential Analyzer
    • Deputy District Attorney
  • DDD
  • DDL – (i) Digital Data Link
  • DDN – (i) U.S. Defense Data Network
  • DDoS – (i) Distributed Denial of Service
  • DDP
  • DDR
  • DDR&E – (i) (U.S.) Defense Department Research and Engineering
  • DDS – (i) Doctor of Dental Surgery
  • DDT
    • (i) Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (insecticide)
    • Dynamic Debugging Tool (computing)

DE

DF

DG
  • DG – (i) Dei gratia (Latin, "by the grace of God") – Director-General – Data General
  • DGA – (i) Direction générale des armées (French "Armed Forces General Directorate")
  • DGAF – (I) Don't give a f***
  • DGD&D – (i) UK Directorate General of Development and Doctrine
  • DGPS – (i) Differential GPS
  • DGZ – (i) Desired Ground Zero

DH

DI
  • DIA – (i) U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
  • DIAC – (a) Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia)
  • DiC – Design Island Centre (computing usually used in a teaching situation)
  • DICASS – (p) DIrectional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
  • DID – (i) Dissociative identity disorder
  • DILLIGAD – (a) Do I Look Like I Give A Damn? (military shorthand, slightly less offensive than the following)
  • DILLIGAF – (a) Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck? (military shorthand; the theme of biography, album, tour, and other products of Kevin Bloody Wilson)
  • DIF – (i) Data Interchange Format
  • DIFAR – (p) DIrectional Frequency Analysis and Recording
  • DIME – (a) Dense Inert Metal Explosive
  • DIMM – (a) Dual In-line Memory Module (computing)
  • DIN
  • DINA
  • DINKY – (a) Double Income, No Kids Yet
  • DIP – (a) Dual In-line Package (electronics)
  • DIPS – (a) Defense independent pitching statistics
  • DIR – (i) Defence Industrial Research
  • DIS
  • DISA
  • DISCOM – (p) Division Support Command
  • DISE – (i) Deployable Intelligence Support Element
  • DISSTAF – (a) DIS Search and Target Acquisition Fidelity experiment
  • DITY – (i/a) Do-It-Yourself
  • div – (s) Dhivehi language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • DIVAD – (p) Division Air Defence
  • DIY – (i) Do It Yourself

DJ

DK

DL

DM

DN

DO

DP

DQ
  • DQ – (i) Dairy Queen – (s) Jarvis Island (FIPS 10-4 country code)

DR
  • DR – (i) Dead Reckoning – (s) Dominican Republic (FIPS 10-4 country code) – (i) Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
  • DRA – (i) Defence Research Agency (UK, 1991–1995) – Democratic Republic of America
  • DRAGN – (a) Double Radio source Active Galactic Nucleus ("dragon")
  • DRAM – (a) Dynamic Random Access Memory ("dee-ram") (computing)
  • DRC – (i) Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • DRDC – (i) Defence Research & Development Canada
  • DREA – (i/a) Defence Research Establishment Atlantic (obsolete 2002)
  • DRES – (i/a) Defence Research Establishment Suffield (obsolete 2002)
  • DRET – (i/a) Defence Research Establishment Toronto (obsolete 2002)
  • DREV – (i/a) Defence Research Establishment Valcartier (obsolete 2002)
  • DRI – (i) Detection, Recognition, Identification – Dietary Reference Intake
  • DRIC – (i/a) (U.S.) Defense Research Information Center
  • DRL – (i) Daytime Running Lights – Dorman Roberts Ltd.
  • DRM – (i) Digital Rights Management
  • DRMS – (i) (U.S.) Defense Revitalization and Marketing Service
  • DRPR – (p) Drawing Practices
  • DRT – (i) Document Related Technologies

DS
  • Ds – (s) Darmstadtium
  • DS
    • (i) Dear son (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists, blogs, and bulletin boards)
    • Defence Scientist
    • Direct Support
    • (s) Dust Storm (METAR Code)
  • DSA
    • (i) (U.S.) Defense Support Activities
    • Division Support Area
  • DSAA
  • DSAS – (i) Disney Sing Along Songs
  • DSB – (i) (U.S.) Defense Science Board
  • DSC
    • (i) Differential Scanning Calorimeter
    • Digital Selective Calling
    • Digital Still Camera
    • Distinguished Service Cross
    • Doctor of Surgical Chiropody (obsolete)
    • Document structure convention (PostScript programming)
    • Dynamic Stability Control
  • DSCS – (i) U.S. Defense Satellite Communications System
  • DSCSOC – (i) DSCS Operations Center
  • DSD – (i) Defence Studies Department (King's College, London)
  • DSDS – (i) Deutschland sucht den Superstar (German, "Germany Seeks the Superstar"), the German version of the Idol series
  • DSE – (i) Dry Sheep Equivalent
  • DSG – (i) Direct-Shift Gearbox
  • DSID – (i) Dismounted Soldier Identification System
  • DSL – (i) Digital Subscriber Line
  • DSLR – (i) Digital single-lens reflex (camera)
  • DSM – (i) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
  • DSN – (i) Deep Space Network
  • DSO – (i) Distinguished Service Order (British military decoration)
  • dsp – (i) decessit sine prole (Latin, "died without issue") – genealogy short-hand
    • dspl – (i) decessit sine prole legitima (Latin, "died without legitimate issue")
    • dspm – (i) decessit sine prole mascula [superstite] (Latin, "died without surviving male issue" )
    • dspml – (i) decessit sine prole mascula legitima (Latin, "died without legitimate male issue")
    • dspms – (i) decessit sine prole mascula superstite (Latin, "died without surviving male issue")
    • dsps – (i) Decessit sine prole superstite (Latin, "died without surviving issue")
  • DSP
    • (i) Defense Standardization Program
    • Defense Support Program
    • Digital Signal Processing
  • DSPL – (i) Design Specialists and Plans Language
  • DSR – (i) Deformed Special Relativity
  • DSRV
    • (i) Deaf Sports Recreation Victoria
    • Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle
  • DSS
  • DST – (i) Daylight saving time
  • DSTL – (i) British Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
  • dsvp – d.s.v.p. decessit sine vitae patria (Latin, "died within fathers lifetime")
  • DSWA – (i) (U.S.) Defense Special Weapons Agency

DT

DU
  • DU
    • (i) Depleted Uranium
    • (s) Dust (METAR Code)
  • DUI
    • (i) Data Use Identifier
    • Data Use Institute
    • Davis Unified Ignition
    • Diving Unlimited International
    • Documento Único de Identidad
    • Documento Unico de Importación
    • Driving Under the Influence
    • Duke University Improv
  • DUMBO – (a) Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (Brooklyn neighborhood)
  • DUSD – (i) (U.S.) Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense

DV
  • dv – (s) Dhivehi language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • DV
    • (i) Daily Value (FDA food guide)
    • Deo volente (Latin, "God willing")
  • DVD – (i) Digital Versatile Disk (was Digital Video Disk)
  • DVLC – (i) UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre
  • dvm – (i) decessit vita matris (Latin, "died in the lifetime of the mother")
  • DVM – (i) Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
  • DVO – (i) Direct View Optics
  • DVOM – Digital Volt-Ohm Meter
  • DVP – various meanings (disambiguation page)
    • dvp – (i) decessit vita patris (Latin, "died in the lifetime of the father")
  • dvu – (i) decessit vita uxoris (Latin, "died in the lifetime of spouse")

DW

DX

DY

DZ
  • dz – (s) Dzongkha language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • DZ – (s) Algeria (ISO 3166 digram) – Drizzle (METAR Code) – (i) Drop Zone
  • DZA – (s) Algeria (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • DZD – (s) Algerian dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • dzo – (s) Dzongkha language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • DZO (Depleted Zinc Oxide — physics/chemistry jargon)
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