(Main list of acronyms)

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  • d – (s) Deci
  • D – (s) Deuterium

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
  • DAD – (s) Da Nang International Airport (IATA code)
  • 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)
  • Disclosure and Barring Service (UK)
  • Double-Barreled Shotgun

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
  • Disconnected
  • 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
  • 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
  • DCDC – Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre
  • DCE – (i) Data Communication Equipment
  • DCFC – (i) Death Cab for Cutie
  • DCI
  • (i) Detection, Classification and Identification
  • Drum Corps International
  • Duellists' Convocation International, later known simply by the initials before changing its name to the current Wizards Play Network
  • DCIM – (p) Digital Camera Images
  • DCIMS
  • (i) Dental Classification Information Management System
  • Dismounted Combat Identification Marking System
  • DCL – Disney Cruise Line
  • DCN – Deacon
  • 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 & 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
  • DDLC – Doki Doki Literature Club!
  • DDLC+ – the expanded version, Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
  • DDN – (i) U.S. Defense Data Network
  • DDoS – (i) Distributed Denial of Service
  • DDP
  • (i) Danish Design Prize
  • Deutsche Demokratische Partei (German, "German Democratic Party" – former political party in Weimar Germany)
  • Diamond Dallas Page (American professional wrestler)
  • 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)
  • Dramatic Dream Team, the original name of the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling
  • 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 Administration
  • 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
  • DEERS – (a) Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (US Department of Defense database of individuals eligible for certain benefits)
  • DEFCON – (p) Defence readiness condition
  • DEFRA – (a) (UK) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  • DEI - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • DELT – (a) Dual Ended Line Test (ing)
  • DEM
  • (i) Data Exchange Mechanism
  • Digital Elevation Model
  • DEN – (s) Denmark (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • 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)

DF

  • DF
  • (i) Direct Fire
  • Direction Finding
  • Distrito Federal (Spanish and Portuguese for "federal district")
  • 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
  • DFL
  • (i) Democratic–Farmer–Labor (the full designation of the Minnesota affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party)
  • Deutsche Fußball Liga (German for "German Football League"), the operator of the top two leagues of German football
  • DFM – (i) Dynamic Flowgraph Methodology
  • DFM – (ii) Discrete Field Model see Superluminal motion
  • DFSP – (i) Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
  • DfT– (i) Department for Transport
  • DFTBA – (i) Don't Forget To Be Awesome- a term commonly used by the Vlogbrothers

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***
  • DGB – (i) Disinformation Governance Board
  • 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)
  • DHMIS - (i) Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
  • 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
  • DHTFYSS – (i) U.S. Don't Have Time For You Silly S****
  • DHY – (s) Dahomey (ISO 3166 trigram; became BEN for Benin in 1977)

DI

  • DIA – (i) U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
  • DIAC – (a) Department of Immigration and Citizenship (Australia) [https://www.immi.gov.au/]
  • 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) [https://books.google.com/books?id=dAt8BJc0El8C&dq=DILLIGAD&pg=PA11]
  • 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) [https://books.google.com/books?id=z4A22ycfZ0YC&dq=DILLIGAF&pg=PA81]
  • 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
  • (i) Deutsches Institut für Normung (German, "German Institute for Standardization")
  • Drug Identification Number (Canadian drug marketing requirement)
  • DINA
  • (p/a) Diesel Nacional (Spanish, "National Diesel"—Mexican bus and truck manufacturer now known as DINA)
  • Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (Spanish, "National Intelligence Directorate"—former secret police of Chile)
  • 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
  • (i) Defence Intelligence Staff
  • (U.S.) Defense Investigative Service
  • Distributed Interactive Simulation
  • Draft International Standard (ISO)
  • DISA
  • (a) U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency
  • Distinguished Individual Service Award
  • 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)
  • DKP – Don King Productions

DL

  • DL – Dexter's Laboratory
  • DLA
  • (i) U.S. Defense Logistics Agency
  • Dental Laboratories Association
  • DLI – (s) IATA code for Lien Khuong Airport
  • 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) Designated market area (primarily a U.S. term)
  • 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)
  • DMM – Digital Multimeter
  • 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
  • DMPK – (i) Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
  • DMRB – (i) Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
  • DMS – (i) U.S. Defense Message System
  • DMSO
  • (p) Dimethyl sulfoxide
  • (i) U.S. Defense Modeling & Simulation Office ("dim-so"), now Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office
  • 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

  • DN – (i) Deacon
  • 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 Osteopathic Medicine
  • DOA – (i) Dead On Arrival – Dead or Alive
  • DOB – (i) Date Of Birth
  • DoCRA – (a) Duty of Care Risk Analysis Standard
  • 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
  • DOGE – (a) Department of Government Efficiency
  • 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) – Damage Over Time (common in World of Warcraft)
  • DOTA – short-form for DEFENSE OF THE ANCIENTS a popular online epic game
  • 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) (originally Displaced Persons, Refugees, Evacuees)
  • 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 -- Domaine Romanee Conti
  • 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.) Detroit River International Crossing
  • 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
  • Driving Schools Association of the Americas
  • DECT Standard Authentication Algorithm
  • 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
  • (i) Digitized Sky Survey
  • Discarding-Sabot Shell (ammunition)
  • 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

  • DTA – (i) Dental Technologists Association
  • DTaP – (a/p) Diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (vaccine) (pronounced "D-tap")
  • 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)
  • DTM
  • (i) Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (German, "German Touring Car Masters" – a current motor racing series)
  • Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (German, "German Touring Car Championship" – a defunct motor racing series)
  • DTMF – (i) Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling
  • 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)
  • DTP
  • (i) Desktop publishing
  • Desktop Tablet Press source
  • Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (vaccine)
  • DTR – (i) Determine The Relationship
  • DTRA – (i) Defense Threat Reduction Agency ("deet-ra")
  • DTSA – (i) (U.S.) Defense Technology Security Administration (ii) – Defend Trade Secrets Act

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")
  • DVT
  • (i) Deep vein thrombosis
  • Design verification test
  • Driving Van Trailer (rail vehicle)
  • 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
  • DWTS – (a) Dancing with the Stars
  • DWW – (a) Down with Webster

DX

  • DX
  • (s) Dexterity (role-playing games)
  • (p) DeXtrorphan
  • Distant (radio)
  • (i) D-Generation X (professional wrestling stable)
  • DXA – (i) Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry
  • DXM – (p) DeXtroMethorphan

DY

  • Dy – (s) Dysprosium
  • DY – (s) Dahomey (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1977)

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)