| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| DCD | Data Carrier Detect |
| DCD | Developmental Coordination Disorder |
| DCD | Department of Community Development |
| DCD | Dead Can Dance (band) |
| DCD | Donation After Cardiac Death (organ donation and transplantation) |
| DCD | Document Content Description (W3C, XML) |
| DCD | Décédé (French: Deceased) |
| DCD | Duty Cycle Distortion (ANSI) |
| DCD | Dynamic Content Delivery |
| DCD | DirectCD |
| DCD | Directorate of Combat Developments (now Concepts and Requirements Directorate) |
| DCD | Deseret Chemical Depot (Tooele, Utah) |
| DCD | Disk-Caching Disk |
| DCD | Def Con Dos (band) |
| DCD | data collection device (US DoD) |
| DCD | DFAS Corporate Database |
| DCD | Department of Career Development |
| DCD | Dual Currency Deposit (foreign exchange linked structured deposit) |
| DCD | Downstream Channel Descriptor |
| DCD | Document Content Definition |
| DCD | Design Control Document |
| DCD | Design and Construction Division |
| DCD | Data Communications Device (Nortel) |
| DCD | Digital Clock Distributor (Telecom Solutions) |
| DCD | Die Cheerleader Die (band) |
| DCD | Defense Corporate Database |
| DCD | Digital Capture Device |
| DCD | Dichotomous Coordinate Descent (algorithm) |
| DCD | Defence Construction Canada |
| DCD | Defense Communications Division |
| DCD | Design Change Document |
| DCD | Data Consortium Dictionary |
| DCD | Dual Command Decoder |
| DCD | Dennis Test of Child Development |
| DCD | Dual Coil Drive |
| DCD | Discharge Control Desk |
| DCD | Digital Communications Dispatcher (police) |
| DCD | Design Control Drawing |
| DCD | Desired Completion Date |
| DCD | Dependability of Component Design |
| DCD | DESCOM Candidate Depot |
| DCD | Digital Conference Director |
| DCD | Dissociated Vertical Divergence |
| DCD | Driver's Compass Display (device showing heading, waypoint, distance, and steer-to information) |
| DCD | Distributed Change Coverage |
| DCD | Diploma of Company Direction (UK) |
| DCD | Developmental Cognitive Disorder |