3-letter words containing d
- dai — (chiefly North India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) A wet nurse; a midwife. (from 18th c.).
- dak — a system of mail delivery or passenger transport by relays of bearers or horses stationed at intervals along a route
- dal — Dal is an Indian dish made from pulses such as chick peas or lentils.
- dam — A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop the water flowing and to make a lake.
- dan — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
- dap — to fish with a natural or artificial fly on a floss silk line so that the wind makes the fly bob on and off the surface of the water
- dar — Daughters of the American Revolution
- 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.
- db2 — (database) A relational database from IBM. When running under IBM's MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) operating system, DB2 is implemented on top of VSAM and uses its underlying data structures. DB2, later called "DB2 Universal DataBase", also runs under windows NT, AIX, Solaris and, most recently, Linux.
- dba — Doctor of Business Administration
- dbc — (language, parallel) A data-parallel bit-serial C based on MPL. SRC, Bowie MD. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- dbe — Dame (Commander of the Order) of the British Empire
- dbh — diameter at breast height
- dbl — double
- dbs — direct broadcasting by satellite
- dbx — a noise-reduction system that works as a compander across the full frequency spectrum
- dc1 — control-Q
- dc2 — Device Control 2
- dc3 — control-S
- dc4 — Device Control 4
- dca — 1. Defense Communications Agency. See DISA. 2. Document Content Architecture from IBM.
- dcb — Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath
- dcc — digital compact cassette
- dce — 1. Data Communication Equipment. 2. Data Circuit-terminating Equipment. 3. Distributed Computing Environment from OSF.
- dcf — discounted cash flow
- dci — Detective Chief Inspector
- dcl — Doctor of Civil Law
- dcm — Distinguished Conduct Medal
- dcp — definitional constraint programming
- dcs — 1. Digital Cellular System. 2. Digital Control System.
- dct — discrete cosine transform
- ddb — device independent bitmap
- ddd — a colorless, crystalline insecticide, (ClC6H4)2CHCHCl2, closely related to DDT but considered to be less toxic to animals; TDE
- dde — a toxic residue of DDT often found in animal tissue: it inhibits calcium production, causing many birds to produce extremely thin eggshells that break on contact with the brooder
- ddl — 1. ["A Digital System Design Language (DDL)", J.R. Duley, IEEE Trans on Computers c-17(9), pp. 850-861, Sep 1968]. 2. (language, games) An adventure language developed by M. Urban, C. Kostanick et al of the UCLA Computer Club. DDL was the forerunner of ADL. 3. Data Definition Language. 4. Document Description Language. 5. Dynamic Data Exchange. (Originally "Linking").
- ddm — 1. (protocol, database) Distributed Data Management. 2. (language) Data Driven Machine.
- ddn — Defense Data Network
- ddo — Dynamic Drive Overlay
- ddp — a method of organizing data processing that uses a central computer in combination with smaller local computers or terminals, which communicate with the central computer and perhaps with one another.
- ddr — Deutsche Demokratische Republik (the former East Germany; GDR)
- dds — Dewey Decimal System
- ddt — DDT is a poisonous substance which is used for killing insects.
- ddw — distributed data warehouse
- de' — dei (used in Italian names as an elided form of dei): de' Medici.
- de- — De- is added to a verb in order to change the meaning of the verb to its opposite.