| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| CPD | Continuing Professional Development |
| cpd | Compound |
| CPD | Center for Persons with Disabilities |
| CPD | Center for Professional Development |
| CPD | Chicago Police Department |
| CPD | Commission on Presidential Debates |
| CPD | Construction Products Directive |
| CPD | Collaborative Product Development |
| CPD | Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers |
| CPD | Centro de Proceso de Datos (Spanish: Data Processing Center) |
| CPD | Committee on the Present Danger |
| CPD | Community Planning & Development |
| CPD | Cephalopelvic Disproportion |
| CPD | Citrate-Phosphate-Dextrose |
| CPD | Cincinnati Police Department (Ohio) |
| CPD | Certificate in Professional Development (UK) |
| CPD | Crime Prevention Division |
| CPD | Critical Point Drying |
| CPD | Centro Português de Design |
| CPD | Contact Potential Difference |
| CPD | Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (star catalogue) |
| CPD | Capabilities Production Document |
| CPD | Center for Policy Dialogue (Bangladesh) |
| CPD | Cyclopentadiene |
| CPD | Cherry Poppin' Daddies (band) |
| CPD | Chronic Pulmonary Disease |
| CPD | Continuous Peritoneal Dialysis |
| CPD | Civilian Personnel Directorate |
| CPD | Clearwater Police Department (Clearwater, Florida, USA) |
| CPD | Competitive Professional Development |
| CPD | California Police Department |
| CPD | Certified Plumbing Designer |
| CPD | Cerebelloparenchymal Disorder |
| CPD | Central Police District |
| CPD | Crowne Plaza Darling (Harbour; Sydney, Australia) |
| CPD | Crew Passive Dosimeter (NASA) |
| CPD | College for Professional Development |
| CPD | Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge |
| CPD | Chandler Police Department (Arizona) |
| CPD | combat plans division (US DoD) |
| CPD | Conto Pro Diverse |
| CPD | Circuit Protection Device |
| CPD | Center for the Public Domain |
| CPD | Congressional Presentation Document |
| CPD | Capacitance Power Dissipation |
| CPD | Central Procurement Division (USMC) |
| CPD | Critical Path Delay |
| CPD | Charlotte Police Department (North Carolina) |
| CPD | Cards Per Day |
| CPD | Candidate Pipeline Development (business process outsourcing of candidate research services) |
| CPD | Customers Per Day |
| CPD | Consolidated Procurement Directive |
| CPD | Concertacion por la Democracia (Coalition of Parties for Democracy, Chile) |
| CPD | Computer Program Development |
| CPD | Core Personnel Document (civilian personnel) |
| CPD | Crew Procedures Division (NASA) |
| CPD | Collection Processing Dissemination |
| CPD | Common Picture Display |
| CPD | Central Postal Directory |
| CPD | Clarkstown Police Department (New York) |
| CPD | Corporate & Personal Development (Consultants; Ireland) |
| CPD | Comprehensive Program of Disarmament |
| CPD | Combat Pictorial Detachment (Army) |
| CPD | Colonie des Pionniers du Développement (French) |
| CPD | Commercial Printing Division |
| CPD | Converter, Pulse to DC Voltage |
| CPD | Consolidated Programming Document |
| CPD | Collections Premieres Düsseldorf |
| CPD | Cubicle Prairie Dogging (people popping up in their cubicles when something happens) |
| CPD | Capability Provisioning Document (NECC) |
| CPD | Commissioning Plan Document |
| CPD | Coordinated Product Definition |
| CPD | Crown Point Design (San Diego, CA) |
| CPD | Conceptual Point Design (design/engineering) |
| CPD | Certified Pure Puppy Database |
| CPD | Certificate in Production Design |
| CPD | CompressionPhotoDefiner (lossless compression for images) |