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3-letter words starting with d

  • dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • doh — Expresses surprise and consternation at a stupid mistake made by oneself, or another person.
  • doi — digital object identifier: a unique set of numbers and letters used to identify material published on the internet
  • dol — a unit for measuring the intensity of pain.
  • dom — Document Object Model
  • don — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
  • doo — (childish) Feces.
  • dop — a tool for holding gemstones for cutting or polishing.
  • dor — mockery; scorn.
  • dos — any of several single-user, command-driven operating systems for personal computers, especially MS DOS.
  • dot — a female given name, form of Dorothea and Dorothy.
  • dou — Gerard [gey-rahrt] /ˈgeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1613–75, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
  • dow — to be able.
  • dox — (slang) Documents, especially information sought by hackers about an individual (address, credit card numbers, etc.).
  • doy — Disdainful indication that something is obvious; see duh.
  • doz — Dozen (twelve).
  • dpa — Data Protection Act
  • dpb — /d*-pib'/ The PDP-10 instruction "DePosit Byte" that inserts some bits into the middle of some other bits. Hackish usage has been kept alive by the Common LISP function of the same name.
  • dpc — Damp-proof course.
  • dph — Diploma in Public Health
  • dpi — Dots per inch, a measure of the resolution of printers, scanners, etc.
  • dpl — DECmmp Parallel Language. A C-like parallel language for the DECmpp machine.
  • dpm — Damp-proof membrane, a sheet of material used to make a structure such as a solid concrete floor damp-proof.
  • dpn — Decomposed Petri Net
  • dpp — Dining Philosophers Problem
  • dps — 1.   (language, text)   Display PostScript. 2.   (language)   A real-time language with direct expression of timing requests.
  • dpt — department
  • dpw — Department of Public Works
  • dre — direct recording electronic: a system of voting in elections in which voters enter choices using an electronic device such as a touchscreen
  • drg — any of the diagnostic categories in a system of Medicare reimbursement to hospitals: rates are determined by the average cost of treatment, hospital stay, etc. for a specific problem or category
  • drm — 1. Digital Rights Management 2. Digital Radio Mondiale
  • dro — Abbreviation of hydroponic.
  • dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
  • ds0 — (communications)   The zeroth DS level, having a transmission rate of 64,000 bits per second (64 kb/s), intended to carry one voice channel (a phone call).
  • ds1 — (communications)   A DS level and framing specification for synchronous digital streams, over circuits in the North American digital transmission hierarchy, at the T1 transmission rate of 1,544,000 bits per second (baud). DS1 is commonly used to multiplex 24 DS0 channels. Each DS0 channel, originally a digitised voice-grade telephone signal, carries 8000 bytes per second (64,000 bits per second). A DS1 frame includes one byte from each of the 24 DS0 channels and adds one framing bit, making a total of 193 bits per frame at 8000 frames per second. The result is 193*8000 = 1,544,000 bits per second. In the original standard, the successive framing bits continuously repeated the 12-bit sequence 110111001000, and such a 12-frame unit is called a super-frame. In voice telephony, errors are acceptable (early standards allowed as much as one frame in six to be missing entirely), so the least significant bit in two of the 24 streams was used for signaling between network equipments. This is called robbed-bit signaling. To promote error-free transmission, an alternative called the extended super-frame (ESF) of 24 frames was developed. In this standard, six of the 24 framing bits provide a six bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC-6), and six provide the actual framing. The other 12 form a virtual circuit of 4000 bits per second for use by the transmission equipment, for call progress signals such as busy, idle and ringing. DS1 signals using ESF equipment are nearly error-free, because the CRC detects errors and allows automatic re-routing of connections. Compare T-carrier systems.
  • ds2 — (communications)   A DS level and framing specification for digital signals in the North American digital transmission hierarchy. A DS2 signal uses 96 PCM channels and has a transmission rate of 6.31 Megabits per second, twice that of DS1C.
  • ds3 — (communications)   The third DS level, a framing specification for digital signals in the North American digital transmission hierarchy. A DS3 signal has a transmission rate of 44.736 Megabits per second. DS3 is used, for example, on T3 synchronous Integrated Services Digital Network lines.
  • dsa — Directory System Agent
  • dsc — Doctor of Science
  • dse — 1. Display Screen Equipment. See Visual Display Unit. 2. Data Structure Editor.
  • dsi — Delivered Source Instruction
  • dsl — 1.   (communications)   Digital Subscriber Line. 2.   (language)   Digital Simulation Language. 3.   (language)   Denotational Semantics Language.
  • dsm — 1. Data Structure Manager. An object-oriented language by J.E. Rumbaugh and M.E. Loomis of GE, similar to C++. It is used in implementation of CAD/CAE software. DSM is written in DSM and C and produces C as output. 2. DIGITAL Standard MUMPS.
  • dsn — Digital Switched Network
  • dso — Distinguished Service Order
  • dsp — Digital Signal Processing
  • dss — Department of Social Security
  • dst — daylight saving time
  • dsu — 1.   (communications)   Data Service Unit. 2. Disk Subsystem Unit (Artecon). 3.   (humour)   Dwarf Storage Unit.
  • dsw — penis war
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