List of acronyms and initialisms (Starting with "D")

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(Starting with "D")

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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends.

For the purposes of this list:

acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as a series of constituent letters, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc
pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).

(a) = acronym in the example: SARS - (a) Severe acute respiratory syndrome

(i) = initialism in the example: CD - (i) Compact disc

(p) = pseudo-blend in the example: UNIFEM - (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women

(s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz - Megahertz)

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D

d - (s) Deci
D - (s) Deuterium

D0-9

D8N - (s) Dayton, Ohio

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
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 System 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

DC - (i) da capo - Italian Democrazia Cristiana - Digital Compass - Direct Current - (s) District of Columbia (postal symbol) - (i) Douglas Aircraft Company - Dublin Core - Duty Cycle
DCA – (i) Defensive Counter Air – Drum Corps Associates - (p) DiChloroAcetate - (s) Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA code)
DCAA - (i) (U.S.) Defense Contract Audit Agency
DCAS - (i) Devon and Cornwall Archery Society
DCC - (i) Dallas Christian College
DCC - (i) Digital Command Control (model railroading) - Direct Client-to-Client (Internet Relay Chat) - Dismounted Close Combat
DCCP - (i) Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
DCD - (i) [Organ] Donation after Cardiac Death
DCE - (i) Data Communication Equipment
DCFC - (i) Death Cab for Cutie
DCI – (i) Detection, Classification and Identification - Drum Corps International
DCIM - (p) Digital Camera Images
DCIMS - (i) Dental Classification Information Management System - Dismounted Combat Identification Marking System
DCL - Disney Cruise Line
DCOM - Disney Channel Original Movie
DCOP - (i) Desktop Communication Protocol
DCSOPS - (p) Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and plans
DCW - (i) Digital Chart of the World
DCYSC - (i) Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge

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 - (i) Data Display Debugger - Digital Digital Digital (CD mastering)
DDL - (i) Digital Data Link
DDN - (i) U.S. Defense Data Network
DDoS - (i) Distributed Denial of Service
DDR - (i) Dance Dance Revolution - Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German, "German Democratic Republic" (GDR), East Germany) - Double Data Rate - (s) East Germany (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete since 1990)
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

de - (s) German language (ISO 639-1 code)
DE - (s) Delaware (postal symbol) - Germany (ISO 3166 digram)
DEA - (i) Drug Enforcement Agency
DEC - (a/i) Department of Environmental Conservation - Digital Equipment Corporation - Disasters Emergency Committee
DeCA - (p) (U.S.) Defense Commissary Agency
DECSIM - (p) Model DEComposition and SIMulation algorithm - Directed Energy Combat SIMulation
DECT - (a) Digital European Cordless Telephone
DEFCON - (p) Defence readiness condition
DEFRA - (a) (UK) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DEM - (i) Data Exchange Mechanism - Digital Elevation Model
DEPSECDEF - (p) (U.S.) Deputy Secretary of Defense
DERA - (a) British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (1995–2001)
DES - (i) Deep Ecliptic Survey
deu - (s) German language (ISO 639-2 code)
DEU - (s) Germany (ISO 3166 trigram), see also DEU disambiguation

DF

DF - (i) Direct Fire - Direction Finding - DragonFable
DFAD - (p) Digital Feature Analysis Data ("dee-fad")
DFAS - (i) (U.S.) Defense Finance and Accounting Service
DFB - (i) Deutscher Fußball-Bund (German for "German Football Association")
DFCB - (i) Data Format Control Book
DfID - (i) UK Department for International Development
DFM - (i) Dynamic Flowgraph Methodology
DFSP - (i) Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
DfT - (i) UK Department for Transport

DG

DG - (i) Dei gratia (Latin, "by the grace of God") - Director-General
DGA - (i) Direction générale des armées (French "Armed Forces General Directorate")
DGD&D - (i) UK Directorate General of Development and Doctrine
DGPS - (i) Differential GPS
DGZ - (i) Desired Ground Zero

DH

DH - (i) dear husband (increasingly prevalent on social mailing lists, blogs, and bulletin boards) - Designated hitter
DHA - (p) DocosaHexaenoic Acid
DHHS - (i) (U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services
DHL - (i) Dalsey, Hillblom, and Lynn (courier service)
DHRA - (i) (U.S.) DoD Human Resources Activity
DHS - (i) U.S. Department of Homeland Security
DHSS - (i) UK Department of Health and Social Security
DHY - (s) Dahomey (ISO 3166 trigram; became BEN in 1977)

DI

DIA - (i) U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
DIAC - (a) Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) [1]
DiC - Design Island Centre (computing usually used in a teaching situation)
DICASS - (p) DIrectional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
DILLIGAF - (a) Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck? (Internet shorthand)
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)
DINK - (a) Double Income, No Kids
DIP - (a) Dual In-line Package (electronics)
DIR - (i) Defence Industrial Research
DIS - (i) Defence Intelligence Staff - (U.S.) Defense Investigative Service - Distributed Interactive Simulation - Draft International Standard (ISO)
DISA - (a) U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency
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

DJ - (i) Disc Jockey - Dinner Jacket - (s) Djibouti (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code)
DJD - (i) Degenerative Joint Disease - Dublin Julian Day - Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
DJF - (s) Djibouti franc (ISO 4217 currency code)
DJI - (s) Djibouti (ISO 3166 trigram)
DJS - (i) Director, Joint Staff

DK

DK - (s) Denmark (ISO 3166 digram)
DKK - (s) Danish krone (ISO 4217 currency code)

DL

DL - Dexter's Laboratory
DLA - (i) U.S. Defense Logistics Agency - (i) Dental Laboratories Association
DLIC - (i) Detachment Left-In-Contact
DLIR - (i) Depot-Level Inspection and Repair
DLL - (i) Dynamic Link Library
DLPFC or DL-PFC - (i) DorsoLateral PreFrontal Cortex
DLPMC - (i) DorsoLateral PreMotor Cortex
DLR - (i) Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German, German Aerospace Centre) - Docklands Light Railway
DLRP - (i) Data Link Reference Point
DLS - (i) Deep Lens Survey
DLSA - (i) (U.S.) Defense Legal Services Agency
DLSc - (p) Diploma in Library Science
DLSC - (i) U.S. Defense Logistics Services Center - U.S. Defense Logistics Support Command - Department of Library Special Collections (Western Kentucky University Libraries) - Direct Loan Servicing Center - Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts (Canada) - Dominican Lay Scholars Community
DLTBGYD - Don't let the bastards grind you down

DM

DM - (s) Dominica (ISO 3166 digram) - (i) Dungeon Master (role-playing games)
DMA - (i) U.S. Defense Mapping Agency (became NIMA, then NGA) - Direct Memory Access (computing) - (s) Dominica (ISO 3166 trigram)
DMC - (i) (U.S.) Defense Management Council
DMCA - Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DMD - (i) dentariae medicinae doctor (Latin, "doctor of dental medicine") - Digital Micromirror Device - Digital Multilayer Disk
DMI - (i) Desktop Management Interface (computing)
DMOC - (i) Distributed Mission Operations Centre
DMOS - (i/a) Double Diffused MOS transistor ("dee-moss")
DMPA - (i) (U.S.) Defense Medical Programs Activity
DMPFC - (i) DorsoMedial PreFrontal Cortex
DMRB - (i) Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
DMS - (i) U.S. Defense Message System
DMSO - (p) U.S. Defense Modeling & Simulation Office ("dim-so")
DMSP - (i) U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DMT - (i) Dimethyltryptamine
DMU - (i) Diesel Multiple Unit - a method of connecting self-propelled railway vehicles together to form a train under the control of one driver.
DMV - (i) Department of Motor Vehicles
DMZ - (i) DeMilitarized Zone

DN

DNA - (i) U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency - DeoxyriboNucleic Acid - Douglas Noël Adams
DNAW - (i) Day Night All Weather
DND - (i) Department of National Defence (Canada) - Do Not Disturb
DNDi - (i) Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
DNDO - (i) U.S. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
DNM - (i) Defence Nuclear Material
DNK - (s) Denmark (ISO 3166 trigram)
DNR - (i) Do Not Resuscitate
DNS - (i) Domain Name System

DO

DO - (s) Dominica (FIPS 10-4 country code) - Dominican Republic (ISO 3166 digram) - (i) Doctor of Osteopathy
DOA - (i) Dead On Arrival - Dead or Alive
DOB - (i) Date Of Birth
DOD - (i) U.S. Department of Defense
DODAF - (a) U.S. Department of Defense Architectural Framework
DoDD - (i) U.S. Department of Defense Directive
DoDEA - (i) (U.S.) Department of Defense Education Activity
DOE - (i/a) U.S. Department of Energy
DOHC - (i) Dual-OverHead-Cam engine
DOI - (i) Digital Object Identifier - U.S. Department of the Interior
DOM - (i) Deo optimo maximo (Latin, "to God, the best and greatest") - (a) Document Object Model - (s) Dominican Republic (ISO 3166 trigram)
DOMS - (i) (U.S.) Director of Military Support
DOP - (s) Dominican peso (ISO 4217 currency code)
DORA - (a) Defence of the Realm Act
DOS - (a) Denial of Service (DoS, cf. DDoS) - Density of State - Disk Operating System
DOT - (i) Department of Transportation (U.S. federal or state)
DotD - (i) Deal of the Day (marketing gimmick)
DOTMLPF - (i) Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Personnel, and Facilities (mnemonic)
DOW - (i) Died of Wounds

DP

DP - (i) Division de production (Algerian petroleum company)
DP - (i) Decision Point - Dynamic Programming
DPA - (i) UK Defence Procurement Agency
DPCO - (i) Double-Pole Change Over
DPDT - (i) Double-Pole Double-Throw
DPICM - (i) Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition
DPKO - (p) UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations
DPMO - (i) (U.S.) Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
DPPDB - (p) Digital Point Positioning Database
DPRE - (p) Displaced Person or Refugee (plural Displaced Persons and Refugees)
DPRK - (i) Democratic People's Republic of Korea
DPST - (i) Double-Pole Single-Throw

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 - (i) (U.S.) Defense Security Assistance Agency
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
DSG -(i) Direct-Shift Gearbox
DSID - (i) Dismounted Soldier Identification System
DSL - (i) Digital Subscriber Line
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")
DSP - (i) Defense Standardization Program - Defense Support Program - Digital Signal Processing
dspl - (i) d.s.p. legitima (Latin, "died without legitimate issue")
DSPL - (i) Design Specialists and Plans Language
dspm - (i) d.s.p. malus (Latin, "died without male issue")
dspml - (i) d.s.p.m. legitima (Latin, "died without legitimate male issue")
dspms - (i) d.s.p.m. suivre (Latin, "died without surviving male issue")
dsps - (i) d.s.p. suivre (Latin, "died without surviving issue")
DSR - (i) Deformed Special Relativity
DSRV - (i) Deaf Sports Recreation Victoria - Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle
DSS - (i) Digitized Sky Survey - Discarding-Sabot Shell (ammunition)
DST - (i) Daylight saving time
DSTL - (i) British Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
DSWA - (i) (U.S.) Defense Special Weapons Agency

DT

DTA - (i) Dental Technologists Association
DTD - (i) Digital Terrain Data
DTE - (i) Data Terminal Equipment - Down To Earth
DTED - (p) Digital Terrain Elevation Data ("dee-ted")
DTG - (i) Date-Time Group
DTH - (i) Direct To Home (television)
DTI - (i) UK Department of Trade and Industry
DTIC - (i) (U.S.) Defense Technical Information Center
DTL - (i) Diode-Transistor Logic (electronics)
DTLOMS - (i) Doctrine, Training, Leader development, Organization, Materiel, and Soldier (mnemonic)
DTO - (i) Disruptive Technology Office (was ARDA)
DTOMLS - (i) Doctrine, Training, Organization, Materiel, Leader and Soldier development (mnemonic)
DTR - (i) Determine The Relationship
DTRA - (i) Defense Threat Reduction Agency ("deet-ra")
DTSA - (i) (U.S.) Defense Technology Security Administration

DU

DU - (i) Depleted Uranium - (s) Dust (METAR Code)
DUFF - (i) Designated Ugly Fat Friend
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
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)
DV - (i) Deo volente (Latin, "God willing")
DVD - (i) Digital Versatile Disk (was Digital Video Disk)
DVLC - (i) UK Driver and Vehicle Licencing 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
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

DW - (a) Drum Workshop
DWG - (p) Divisional Wargame (military simulation)
DWI - (i) Dance With Intensity - Danish West Indies - Diffusion-weighted imaging - Direct water injection - Disaster Welfare Inquiry - Drinking Water Inspectorate - Driving While Intoxicated/Impaired
DWM - (a) Doctor Who Magazine
DWIM - (a) Do What I Mean