4-letter words starting with d
- 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.
- djvu — (application, compression, file format, graphics, web) (pronounced like "deja vu") An image compression algorithm and program developed by Yann LeCun's research group at AT&T Labs. DjVu provides high resolution digital images for distribution over the Internet. DjVu is five to 20 times more efficient than JPEG or GIF. A free web browser plug-in allows users to display DjVu images.
- dlci — Data Link Connection Identifier
- dlit — Doctor of Letters (or Literature)
- dlpi — Data Link Provider Interface
- dlsw — Data Link Switching
- dlz1 — Digital Lempel Ziv 1
- dmac — duobinary multiplexed analogue component: a transmission coding system using duobinary techniques for the digital sound and data components of colour television using satellite broadcasting
- dmad — Diagnostic Machine Aid-Digital. A system for functional testing of digital devices.
- dmin — Doctor of Ministry
- dmso — dimethylsulphoxide
- dmtf — Desktop Management Task Force
- dmus — Doctor of Music
- dnis — Dialled Number Identification Service
- dnix — (operating system) A flavor of Unix that is proprietary to Olivetti and Wang Global.
- dnos — Distributed Network Operating System
- doab — (India) A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers.
- doat — dote.
- dobe — Doberman pinscher.
- dobu — a member of a Melanesian people who inhabit the settlement of Dobu, in Papua New Guinea.
- doby — adobe.
- doc. — document.
- docg — Denominazione di Origine Controllata Garantita: used of wines
- dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- doco — (UK, Australian, informal) abbreviation of documentary.
- docs — Plural form of doc.
- docu — (informal) documentary.
- dodd — William Edward, 1869–1940, U.S. historian and diplomat.
- dodo — any of several clumsy, flightless, extinct birds of the genera Raphus and Pezophaps, related to pigeons but about the size of a turkey, formerly inhabiting the islands of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodriguez.
- doek — a square of cloth worn mainly by African women to cover the head, esp to indicate married status
- doer — a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
- does — a plural of doe.
- doff — to remove or take off, as clothing.
- doge — an Internet fad or meme typified by an image of a dog of the Shiba Inu breed accompanied by very short phrases that humorously represent the dog's imagined thoughts and use the wrong modifiers or shortened word forms, as "such dignified" or "amaze.".
- dogs — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.