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4-letter words containing d, i

  • dire — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
  • dirk — a male given name, form of Derek.
  • dirl — to vibrate; shake.
  • dirt — Design In Real Time
  • dis- — Dis- is added to some words that describe processes, qualities, or states, in order to form words describing the opposite processes, qualities, or states. For example, if you do not agree with someone, you disagree with them; if one thing is not similar to something else, it is dissimilar to it.
  • disa — 1.   (body)   Defense Information Systems Agency. 2.   (standard)   Data Interchange Standards Association.
  • disc — any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
  • dish — Slang. to gossip about: They talked all night, dishing their former friends.
  • disk — a phonograph record.
  • diss — (US, British, slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.
  • dist — distance
  • dita — an apocynaceous shrub, Alstonia scholaris, of tropical Africa and Asia, having large shiny whorled leaves and medicinal bark
  • dite — a bit (usually used in negative constructions): I don't care a dite.
  • dits — an echoic word, the referent of which is a click or brief tone interval, used to designate the dot of Morse code, International Morse code, etc.
  • ditz — Slang. airhead2 .
  • diva — a distinguished female singer; prima donna.
  • dive — to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
  • divi — (British, informal, dated) The dividend paid out by the Co-op.
  • divo — a highly distinguished male singer
  • divs — Plural form of div.
  • dixi — I have spoken
  • dixy — dixie.
  • diya — a small oil lamp, usually made from clay
  • dizi — A transverse flute with a buzzing membrane used in Chinese music, usually made of bamboo.
  • dizz — (obsolete, transitive) To make dizzy; to astonish; to puzzle.
  • djia — Dow-Jones Industrial Average: an index of representative common shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange
  • djin — jinn.
  • dlci — Data Link Connection Identifier
  • dlit — Doctor of Letters (or Literature)
  • dlpi — Data Link Provider Interface
  • dmin — Doctor of Ministry
  • dnis — Dialled Number Identification Service
  • dnix — (operating system)   A flavor of Unix that is proprietary to Olivetti and Wang Global.
  • doin — Eye dialect of doing.
  • doit — Also, duit. an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
  • dpmi — DOS Protected Mode Interface
  • drib — a small or minute quantity; bit.
  • drin — a river in S Europe, flowing generally NW from SW Macedonia through N Albania into the Adriatic. 180 miles (290 km) long.
  • drip — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
  • duci — a leader or dictator.
  • duit — doit (def 1).
  • dwim — /dwim/ [acronym, "Do What I Mean" (not what I say)] 1. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided. 2. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors. See hairy. 3. Occasionally, an interjection hurled at a balky computer, especially when one senses one might be tripping over legalisms (see legalese). Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for "Damn Warren's Infernal Machine!'. In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed "delete *$" to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending "$" to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported "*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'". It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a Vulcan nerve pinch after only a half dozen or so files were lost. The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type "delete *$" twice. DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program; it is also occasionally described as the single instruction the ideal computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in vogue, there were also jokes about "DWIMC" (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing); see Right Thing.
  • edie — a female given name, form of Edith.
  • edif — Electronic Design Interchange Format. Not a programming language, but a format to simplify data transfer between CAD/CAE systems. LISP-like syntax. See also Berkeley EDIF200. E-mail: <[email protected]> ftp://edif.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/edif.
  • edit — to supervise or direct the preparation of (a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); serve as editor of; direct the editorial policies of.
  • eide — Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions
  • eild — (obsolete, or, dialectal, Scotland) Age.
  • enid — (zoology) Any member of the Enidae.
  • esdi — Enhanced Small Disk Interface
  • fddi — Fiber Distributed Data Interface
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