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Divining RodnounMWEforked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oilverified
Divinyl EthernounMWEa colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anestheticverified
Docking FacilitynounMWElanding in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repairedverified
Doctor-Patient RelationnounMWEthe responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patientverified
Doctrine of AnalogynounMWEthe religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greaterverified
document characteristicnounMWEAn observable, inspectable property or set of properties of a file or message — such as file type, format structure, embedded metadata, keyword patterns, classification markings, or fingerprint signatures — that a security control can evaluate without necessarily reading the full semantic content. It is the document-level analogue of packet-header attributes: just as a firewall can filter on header fields, a boundary protection device or DLP engine can filter on document-level signals to make allow/block/redirect decisions. In practice, NIST SP 800-171r3 places it alongside keyword searches as one of the mechanisms by which boundary protection devices provide a "message-filtering capability based on message content," with organizations also evaluating the trustworthiness of the filtering and inspection mechanisms themselves that are critical to information flow enforcement. The term is compositional in grammar but functions as a recognized technical shorthand in information-flow and content-inspection contexts, where flow control is based on characteristics of the information or the information path.verified
Dodecanoic AcidnounMWEa crystalline fatty acid occurring as glycerides in natural fats and oils (especially coconut oil and palm-kernel oil)verified
Dog CatchernounMWEan employee of a municipal pound who is hired to round up stray dogs and catsverified
Dog FennelnounMWEweedy plant of southeastern United States having divided leaves and long clusters of greenish flowersverified
Dog HobblenounMWEfast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowersverified
Dog in the MangernounMWEsomeone who prevents you from enjoying something that they themselves have no need forverified
Dog LaurelnounMWEfast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowersverified
Dogbane FamilynounMWEchiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowersverified
Dogwood FamilynounMWEa rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingiaverified
Dogwood TreenounMWEa tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowersverified
Dollar MarknounMWE"$" symbol written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollarsverified
Dollar SignnounMWEa mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollarsverified
Dolophine HydrochloridenounMWEsynthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-formingverified
Dolphin OilnounMWEan unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricantverified
Domain ExpertisenounMWEDomain expertise implies knowledge and understanding of the essential aspects of a specific field of inquiry.verified
Domain HijackingnounMWEDomain hijacking is an attack by which an attacker takes over a domain by first blocking access to the domain's DNS server and then putting his own server up in its place.verified
Domain NamenounMWEA domain name locates an organization or other entity on the Internet. For example, the domain name "www.sans.org" locates an Internet address for "sans.org" at Internet point 199.0.0.2 and a particular host server named "www". The "org" part of the domain name reflects the purpose of the organization or entity (in this example, "organization") and is called the top-level domain name. The "sans" part of the domain name defines the organization or entity and together with the top-level is called the second-level domain name.candidate
Domain name systemnounMWEA hierarchical database that is distributed across the Internet that allows names to be resolved into IP addresses (and vice versa) to locate services such as web and e-mail serversverified