4-letter words containing d
- adv. — Adv. is a written abbreviation for adverb.
- advt — advertisement
- adwa — town in N Ethiopia: site of Menelik II's defeat of the Italians (1896), which led to recognition of Ethiopian independence: pop. 17,000
- adze — a heavy hand tool with a steel cutting blade attached at right angles to a wooden handle, used for dressing timber
- afdc — Aid to Families with Dependent Children
- aged — You use aged followed by a number to say how old someone is.
- ahdl — Analog Hardware Design Language
- aida — a cotton fabric with a natural mesh
- aide — An aide is an assistant to someone who has an important job, especially in government or in the armed forces.
- aids — AIDS is a disease which destroys the natural system of protection that the body has against other diseases. AIDS is an abbreviation for 'acquired immune deficiency syndrome'.
- aidx — (abuse, operating system) /aydkz/ A derogatory term for IBM's perverted version of Unix, AIX, especially for the AIX 3.? used in the IBM RS/6000 series (some hackers think it is funnier just to pronounce "AIX" as "aches"). A victim of the dreaded "hybridism" disease, this attempt to combine the two main currents of the Unix stream (BSD and USG Unix) became a monstrosity to haunt system administrators' dreams. For example, if new accounts are created while many users are logged on, the load average jumps quickly over 20 due to silly implementation of the user databases. For a quite similar disease, compare HP-SUX. Also, compare Macintrash Nominal Semidestructor, Open DeathTrap, ScumOS, sun-stools.
- ald. — Alderman
- alda — Frances, 1885–1952, U.S. operatic singer.
- alod — a feudal estate with no superior
- amdg — ad majorem Dei gloriam (the Jesuit motto)
- amid — If something happens amid noises or events of some kind, it happens while the other things are happening.
- ande — Alternative form of onde.
- andf — Architecture Neutral Distribution Format
- andy — a male given name, form of Andrew.
- apdl — Algorithmic Processor Description Language
- aped — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- apid — (zoology) Any member of the Apidae.
- apod — an animal with no feet or whose feet are rudimentary
- apud — Used in scholarly works to cite a reference at second hand.
- arad — a city in W Romania, on the Mureş River: became part of Romania after World War I, after belonging successively to Turkey, Austria, and Hungary. Pop: 155 000 (2005 est)
- ards — a district of Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 74 369 (2003 est). Area: 368 sq km (142 sq miles)
- arid — Arid land is so dry that very few plants can grow on it.
- asde — Airport Surface Detection Equipment: a radar system that is used by aircraft controllers to assist in the safe manoeuvring of aircraft on the ground
- asdf — Common fill-in word (where keyboards are used, which have these letters in horizontal sequence).
- asdl — Abstract-Type and Scheme-Definition Language
- asid — American Society of Interior Designers
- aude — a department of S France on the Gulf of Lions, in Languedoc-Roussillon region. Capital: Carcassonne. Pop: 321 734 (2003 est). Area: 6342 sq km (2473 sq miles)
- auld — old
- avid — You use avid to describe someone who is very enthusiastic about something that they do.
- awdl — a very long traditional Welsh poem following strict conventions
- awed — wondering and respectful
- axed — an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc.
- b.d. — bondage and discipline: used in reference to sadomasochistic sexual practices.
- badb — a spirit who, delighting in war, incited armies to fight and appeared to warriors about to be defeated.
- bade — Bade is a past tense of bid2.
- badr — Battle of, Islam. a decisive battle in the early days of Islam (a.d. 624), in which Muhammad with about 300 men overcame a force of about 1000 Meccans.
- bads — Plural form of bad.
- baed — Simple past tense and past participle of ba.
- bald — Someone who is bald has little or no hair on the top of their head.
- band — A band is a small group of musicians who play popular music such as jazz, rock, or pop.
- bard — People sometimes refer to William Shakespeare as the Bard.
- baud — a unit used to measure the speed of electronic code transmissions, equal to one unit interval per second
- bawd — a person who runs a brothel, esp a woman
- bdl. — bundle.
- bdpa — Black Data Processing Associates