Acronyms with D

  • Classic science acronym for genetic material

  • Common acronym for do it yourself

  • Widely used acronym: Dead on Arrival

  • US agency acronym: Drug Enforcement Administration

  • Legal acronym: Driving Under the Influence

  • Psych/medical acronym: Dissociative Identity Disorder

  • Very common form field acronym: Date of Birth

  • US government acronym: Department of Defense

  • Famous tech acronym: Digital Versatile Disc

  • Well-known chemical acronym for a pesticide

  • US agency acronym: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

  • Common acronym: Department of Transportation

  • DPS: common acronym, e.g. damage per second

  • DHL: global logistics and courier company

  • DNS: Domain Name System, core internet protocol

  • Dental degree title; also digital data storage.

  • US Dept. of Energy; also ‘depends on experience’.

  • In finance, Dynamic Financial Analysis model.

  • Digital Subscriber Line, broadband tech.

  • US Department of Homeland Security acronym.

  • Double Data Rate computer memory standard.

  • Don’t

  • “Department of Health”; also Homer’s “D’oh!”.

  • Drug Abuse Resistance Education program.

  • Department of Corrections; also “doc” file.

  • Dead

  • Distributed Denial of Service cyberattack.

  • Dublin Area Rapid Transit; also NASA probe.

  • US hotel chain brand acronym with D.

  • Demilitarized Zone in networking/security.

  • Disk Operating System, early PC software.

  • US copyright law: Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

  • UK welfare agency: Department for Work and Pensions.

  • US: Department of Labor and Employment / Labor.

  • Often stands for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.

  • Digital Signal Processor; audio/embedded tech chip.

  • DOT: Department of Transportation; US federal agency.

  • Can mean Data Analysis, Data Transfer, etc.

  • DAM: Digital Asset Management in media/IT.

  • DWI: Driving While Intoxicated, legal offense.

  • DST: Daylight Saving Time clock shift.

  • DPT: Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus vaccine.

  • DOW: Often Dow Jones Industrial Average index.

  • DOB = Date of Birth, very common on forms

  • DMD = Doctor of Dental Medicine degree title

  • DSA = Data Structures and Algorithms in CS

  • DOP = Director of Photography in film/TV

  • DOD = U.S. Department of Defense

  • DMA = Direct Memory Access in computing

  • DELTA often used for “change” (Δ) in science

  • Dance move + "Digital Audio Broadcasting" radio tech.

  • "Dead on Arrival", common legal/medical acronym.

  • "Do It Yourself", very common hobby acronym.

  • "Diplomatic Immunity Passport"/"Debtor in Possession".

  • Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. agency.

  • "Digital Audio Tape", 1980s–90s recording format.

  • Can mean "Data at Rest" or "Disaster Assessment Response".

The words in the list Acronyms with D come from players of the word game City, Country, River.