3-letter words starting with d
- die — When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
- dif — difference: What's the dif where you buy it, as long as you get it?
- dig — to break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer, or claw; make an excavation.
- dil — Dual In-Line Package
- dim — DIM statement
- din — religion, especially the religious observances of a Muslim.
- dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- dir — Direct.
- dis — lady; woman.
- dit — 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.
- diu — part of the union territory of Daman and Diu (Goa, Daman, and Diu in 1961–87) in W India: a former Portuguese colony, comprising a small island and seaport at the extremity of Kathiawar peninsula.
- div — Divergence (in mathematical equations).
- dix — Dorothea Lynde [lind] /lɪnd/ (Show IPA), (Dorothy) 1802–87, U.S. educator and social reformer.
- diy — do-it-yourself
- diz — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of de.
- dkg — dekagram(s)
- dkl — dekaliter(s)
- dkm — dekameter(s)
- dle — (character) Data Link Escape, the mnemonic for ASCII 16.
- dlg — (DFA-based Lexical analyser Generator) The lexical analyser generator in the Purdue Compiler-Construction Tool Set.
- dll — 1. (networking) Data Link Layer. 2. (library) Dynamically Linked Library. 3. Dial Long Line equipment.
- dlm — Distributed Lock Manager on distributed VMS systems.
- dlp — (language) Distributed Logic Programming.
- dlr — dealer
- dls — Doctor of Library Science
- dlt — Digital Linear Tape
- 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.
- dmd — Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- dme — Distributed Management Environment
- dmf — dimethylformamide
- dmi — Desktop Management Interface
- dmk — Dravida Munnetra Kazgham: a political party in the state of Tamil Nadu
- dml — (language) 1. Data Manipulation Language. 2. Data Management Language. 3. ["DML: A Meta-language and System for the Generation of Practical and Efficient Compilers from Denotational Specifications", M. Pettersson et al, IEEE Conf Comp Langs, 1992].
- dmm — Digital Multimeter
- dms — Dataless Management Services
- dmt — dimethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic drug
- dmu — Data Management Unit
- dmv — Department of Motor Vehicles
- dmz — De-Militarised Zone
- 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.
- dnb — Dictionary of National Biography
- dnf — Disjunctive Normal Form
- dnr — do not resuscitate
- dns — Domain name server, the system that automatically translates Internet addresses to the numeric machine addresses that computers use.
- doa — patient: dead on arrival
- dob — (slang, chiefly, Australia, and UK) To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.
- doc — Directed Oc
- dod — (Ulster) sulk, huff.
- doe — the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals.
- dof — degrees of freedom