3-letter words containing a, d
- das — hyrax.
- dat — DAT is a type of magnetic tape used to make very high quality recordings of sound by recording it in digital form. DAT is an abbreviation for 'digital audio tape'.
- dau — daughter
- daw — jackdaw
- dax — an index of share prices based on an average of 30 leading stocks quoted on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- day — A day is one of the seven twenty-four hour periods of time in a week.
- dba — Doctor of Business Administration
- dca — 1. Defense Communications Agency. See DISA. 2. Document Content Architecture from IBM.
- dea — Data Encryption Algorithm
- dfa — Doctor of Fine Arts
- dha — District Health Authority
- dma — (architecture) (DMA) A facility of some architectures which allows a peripheral to read and write memory without intervention by the CPU. DMA is a limited form of bus mastering.
- dna — Deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.
- doa — patient: dead on arrival
- dpa — Data Protection Act
- dsa — Directory System Agent
- dua — Directory User Agent
- eda — a female given name.
- fad — a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.
- fda — Food and Drug Administration
- gad — to move restlessly or aimlessly from one place to another: to gad about.
- gda — (application) (Genetic Data Analysis) A program by Paul O. Lewis and Dmitri Zaykin, designed to accompany the referenced book, that computes linkage and hardy-weinberg disequilibrium and some genetic distances, and provides method-of-moments estimators for hierarchical F-statistics. A command-line version by Chris Basten runs under Mac OS.
- had — simple past tense and past participle of have.
- hda — Head Disk Assembly
- iad — A dynamic analyser from IBM giving information on run-time performance and code use.
- ida — Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5810 feet (1771 meters). Turkish Kazdaği [kahz-dah-gee; Turkish kahz-dah-uh] /ˌkɑz dɑˈgi; Turkish ˌkɑz dɑˈʌ/ (Show IPA).
- jad — Joint Application Design Or "Joint Application Development".
- lad — a boy or youth.
- mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- mda — Monochrome Display Adapter
- nad — Nothing abnormal detected.
- oad — Obsolete form of woad.
- oda — a room within a harem.
- pad — Packet Assembler/Disassembler
- pda — (computer) (PDA) A small hand-held computer typically providing calendar, contacts, and note-taking applications but may include other applications, for example a web browser and media player. Small keyboards and pen-based input systems are most commonly used for user input. The Apple Newton was a fairly early example.
- rad — Informal. radical.
- rda — The RDA of a particular vitamin or mineral is the amount that people need each day to stay healthy. RDA is an abbreviation for 'recommended daily amount'.
- sad — Systems Analysis Definition
- sda — SDA is a process for extracting asphaltenes (= molecular substances in crude oil) and resins.
- tad — a male given name, form of Thaddeus or Theodore.
- uda — Ulster Defence Association
- vad — Voluntary Aid Detachment
- wad — a soft, earthy, black to dark-brown mass of manganese oxide minerals.
- wda — Welsh Development Agency
- xda — a combined computer and mobile phone
- yad — a tapered, usually ornamented rod, usually of silver, with the tip of the tapered part forming a fist with the index finger extended, used by the reader of a scroll of the Torah as a place marker.