(Main list of acronyms)
__NOTOC__ 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 DAC – Digital to Analog Converter 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) 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 (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")