4-letter words starting with d
- darr — (UK, dialect, Norfolk) A bird, the European black tern.
- dart — If a person or animal darts somewhere, they move there suddenly and quickly.
- dasd — Direct-Access Storage Device
- dase — Obsolete form of daze.
- dash — If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
- dasl — Datapoint's Advanced System Language. A cross between C and Pascal by Gene Hughes with custom features for Datapoint hardware (no stack). It is used internally by Datapoint.
- dass — (archaic) To dare.
- dast — Older Use. dare (def 1).
- data — You can refer to information as data, especially when it is in the form of facts or statistics that you can analyse. In American English, data is usually a plural noun. In technical or formal British English, data is sometimes a plural noun, but at other times, it is an uncount noun.
- date — A date is a specific time that can be named, for example a particular day or a particular year.
- dato — the chief of any of certain Muslim tribes in the Philippine Islands
- datu — dato.
- datv — digitally assisted television: a technique in which special digital signals are transmitted with an analogue picture signal to assist the receiver to display the picture to the best advantage
- daub — When you daub a substance such as mud or paint on something, you spread it on that thing in a rough or careless way.
- daud — a lump or chunk of something
- daut — to stroke, pet, or cuddle
- dave — David Warren ("Dave") 1920–2012, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- davy — Sir Humphry. 1778–1829, English chemist who isolated sodium, magnesium, chlorine, and other elements and suggested the electrical nature of chemical combination. He invented the Davy lamp
- dawd — a reverberating blow or punch
- dawg — Eye dialect of dog8; also 'hound dawg'.
- dawk — transportation by relays of people or horses, especially in the East Indies.
- dawn — Dawn is the time of day when light first appears in the sky, just before the sun rises.
- daws — jackdaw.
- dawt — (Scottish) To fondle or caress.
- daye — Archaic spelling of day.
- days — during the day, esp regularly
- daze — If someone is in a daze, they are feeling confused and unable to think clearly, often because they have had a shock or surprise.
- dazy — In a dazed condition.
- dbcp — a pesticide, CH2BrCHBrCH2Cl, thought to cause sterility
- dbcs — (character) (IBM) double-byte character set. A character set that uses 16 bits to represent a character.
- dbib — Douay Bible
- dbms — database management system
- dbpl — (language, database) A procedural language with relational database constructs. A successor to Pascal/R and Modula/R.
- dbst — Direct Broadcast Satellite Television
- dbst — Direct Broadcast Satellite Television
- dbxl — A dBASE-like interpreter/language for MS-DOS from WordTech, Orinda, CA.
- dcac — Domestic Communications Assistance Center
- dcdl — Digital Control Design Language. A language for simulating computer systems.
- dcis — ductal carcinoma in situ
- dcmg — Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- dcms — Department for Culture, Media, and Sport
- dcom — Distributed Component Object Model
- dcvo — Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- ddif — Digital Document Interchange Format. A CDA specification for representing compound documents in revisable format; a DEC standard for document encoding.
- ddos — distributed denial of service: a method of attacking a computer system by flooding it with so many messages that it is obliged to shut down
- ddsc — Doctor of Dental Science
- de-9 — (hardware) The standard 9-pin D-shell connector used for EIA-232 serial communication. DE-9 is a common alternative to DB-25, especially on personal computers.
- dead — A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living.
- deaf — Someone who is deaf is unable to hear anything or is unable to hear very well.
- deak — Ferenc (ˈferents). 1803–76, Hungarian statesman: minister of justice following the 1848 Hungarian uprising. The Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy was largely his creation