Education

• Dade Christian School
  Dade Christian School
  Dade Christian School is a private school located in Country Club, Florida and operated by New Testament Baptist Church. DCS has a 2011-2012 enrollment of 793. In 2008, it was the second largest private school in Miami-Dade. The school was named a Blue Ribbon School in 1984...
  
   A private school in Miami-Dade county
• Dayton City School, a school in Dayton Tennessee
• Dean Close School
  Dean Close School
  Dean Close School is a co-educational independent school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The school is divided into pre-prep, preparatory and senior schools located on separate but adjacent sites outside Cheltenham town centre, occupying the largest private land area in the town...
  
  
• Dearborn Christian School A private school in Dearborn, Michigan
• Desert Christian Schools
  Desert Christian Schools (Arizona)
  Desert Christian Schools is a private Christian school system in Tucson, Arizona. Offering grades K-12, it operates elementary, middle and high schools.-History:...
  
  , in Tucson, Arizona
• Desert Christian Schools, a private school in Lancaster, California
• Diploma of Collegial Studies
  Diploma of Collegial Studies
  The Diploma of College Studies is issued by the province of Quebec, Canada at the completion of post-secondary studies at the college level. The diploma is awarded for two types of programs: two years of pre-university studies or three years of vocational studies...
  
  , a certificate awarded for completion of pre-university studies in the province of Québec, Canada
• Dipolog Community School
• Doctors Charter School of Miami Shores
  Doctors Charter School of Miami Shores
  Doctors Charter School of Miami Shores is a public charter school located on at Barry University Campus in Miami Shores, Florida. Its current principal is Gary Meredith.-Overview:...
  
  , a High/Middle Charter School located in Miami Shores, Florida
  Miami Shores, Florida
  Miami Shores is a village in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The population was 10,380 at the 2000 census. As of 2005, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 10,040....
  
  

European politics

• Danish Council of State
  Danish Council of State
  The Council of State is the privy council of Denmark. The body of advisors to the Danish sovereign, the council is a formal institution, with largely ceremonial functions. Chaired by the sovereign, the council comprises all cabinet ministers and the Crown prince or hereditary princess when he or...
  
  , the Privy Council of Denmark
• Dutch Council of State
  Dutch Council of State
  In the Netherlands, the Council of State is a constitutionally established advisory body to the government which consists of members of the royal family and Crown-appointed members generally having political, commercial, diplomatic, or military experience...
  
  , a constitutionally established advisory body to the government of the Netherlands which consists of members of the royal family and Crown-appointed members generally having political, commercial, diplomatic, or military experience

Medicine

• D-cycloserine
  Cycloserine
  Cycloserine is an antibiotic effective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. For the treatment of tuberculosis, it is classified as a second line drug, i.e...
  
  , (1) an anti-biotic used to treat tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis
  Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...
  
  ; (2) its partial NMDA
  NMDA
  N-Methyl-D-aspartic acid or N-Methyl-D-aspartate is an amino acid derivative which acts as a specific agonist at the NMDA receptor mimicking the action of glutamate, the neurotransmitter which normally acts at that receptor...
  
   agonist properties have been shown to facilitate the extinction of fear and the treatment of anxiety disorders.
• Decompression sickness
  Decompression sickness
  Decompression sickness describes a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body on depressurization...
  
  , a variety of symptoms suffered by a person exposed to a reduction in the pressure surrounding their body
• Dendritic cells, a type of antigen presenting cell of immunologic function
• Dorsal Column Stimulator, an implantable medical device used to treat chronic pain of neurologic origin

Technology

• Dark Current Spectroscopy
  Dark current spectroscopy
  Dark Current Spectroscopy is a technique that is used to determine contaminants in silicon....
  
  , a technique used to find contaminants in silicon
  Silicon
  Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. A tetravalent metalloid, it is less reactive than its chemical analog carbon, the nonmetal directly above it in the periodic table, but more reactive than germanium, the metalloid directly below it in the table...
  
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• Data Coding Scheme, a value used in SMS
  SMS
  SMS is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones. The terms SMS or sms may also refer to:- Computer hardware :...
  
  s to indicate the message class.
• Data Collector Sets, a term used by Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
   within Performance Monitor for Windows Vista
  Windows Vista
  Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...
  
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• Data Communication Services A range of Windows service
  Windows Service
  On Microsoft Windows operating systems, a Windows service is a long-running executable that performs specific functions and which is designed not to require user intervention. Windows services can be configured to start when the operating system is booted and run in the background as long as...
  
  s developed by SA DataCom AB Falkenberg Sweden. Communication software using different protocols like Mobitex
  Mobitex
  Mobitex is an OSI based open standard, national public access wireless packet-switched data network. Mobitex puts great emphasis on safety and reliability with its use by military, police, firefighters and ambulance services. Mobitex was developed in the beginning of the 1980s by the Swedish...
  
  , SMS
  SMS
  SMS is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones. The terms SMS or sms may also refer to:- Computer hardware :...
  
  , GPRS and XML
  XML
  Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
  
  
• Data Conversion Services, IT Services in the European Southern Observatory
• Departure Control System
  Departure Control System
  A Departure Control System automates processing an Airlines' Airport management operation. This includes managing the information required for Airport Check-in and printing Boarding card, cargo load control and aircraft checks....
  
  , Airlines computer systems responsible for passenger and bag processing activities.
• Desktop Color Separations
  Desktop Color Separations
  Desktop Colour Separation is an enhanced Encapsulated PostScript file format that was introduced by Quark, Inc. It is now primarily used for specialised graphics work particularly images that use multiple channels, eg when applying different spot colours to each part of a greyscale...
  
  , an enhanced EPS file format.
• Dichlorosilane
  Dichlorosilane
  Dichlorosilane , or DCS as it is commonly known, is usually mixed with ammonia in LPCVD chambers to grow silicon nitride in semiconductor processing.A higher concentration of DCS:NH3 Dichlorosilane (H2SiCl2), or DCS as it is commonly known, is usually mixed with ammonia (NH3) in LPCVD chambers to...
  
  , SiH₂Cl₂ - used in microelectronic wafer processing
• Digital Cellular System, a mobile communications-based PCS network used outside of the U.S.
• Digital Command System, a model railroad system by MTH Electric Trains
• Digital Compression System
  Digital Compression System
  Digital Compression System, or DCS, is a sound system developed by Williams Electronics. This advanced sound board, used for Williams and Bally pinball games and coin-op arcade video games by Midway Manufacturing, became the standard sound system for these names.The DCS Sound system was created by...
  
  , a sound system developed by Williams Electronics
• Digital cross connect system
  Digital cross connect system
  A digital cross-connect system is a piece of circuit-switched network equipment, used in telecommunications networks, that allows lower-level TDM bit streams, such as DS0 bit streams, to be rearranged and interconnected among higher-level TDM signals, such as DS1 bit streams...
  
  , a type of telecom equipment
• Digital-Coded Squelch, a squelch that superimposes a continuous stream of FSK digital data on the transmitted signal
• Display Coordinate System, the coordinate system where objects are transformed to before being displayed in CAD systems.
• Distributed Control System
  Distributed control system
  A distributed control system refers to a control system usually of a manufacturing system, process or any kind of dynamic system, in which the controller elements are not central in location but are distributed throughout the system with each component sub-system controlled by one or more...
  
  , a control system in which the controller elements are not central in location but are distributed throughout the system with each component sub-system under the control of one or more controllers
• Dealer Communication System, a communication system deployed by car manufacturers to extend their main line applications out to dealers for vehicle distribution, finance, warranty, services and parts management systems.
• Digital Combat Simulator
  Digital Combat Simulator
  Digital Combat Simulator is a series of study combat flight simulator video games by Eagle Dynamics, and the descendent of the popular "Su-27 Flanker" series....
  
  , a consumer market combat flight simulator
  Combat flight simulator
  Combat flight simulators are video games used to simulate military aircraft and their operations...
  
   developed by Eagle Dynamics
  Eagle Dynamics
  Eagle Dynamics is a software company based in Moscow that develops video games and Oracle-based products.The company has developed Su-27 Flanker, Lock On: Modern Air Combat, the LockOn-Add-On "Flaming Cliffs" and the Digital Combat Simulator -...
  
  
• Form D Control System, a subset of the Northeast Operating Rules Advisory Committee
  Northeast Operating Rules Advisory Committee
  The Northeast Operating Rules Advisory Committee is a set of operating rules for railroads in North America. The NORAC rulebook is used by full and associate member railroads, located mostly in the Northeast United States.-Overview:...
  
   operating rules for railroads.
• Dwight Cavendish Systems, a manufacturer of video copy protection.
• Kodak DCS
  Kodak DCS
  The Kodak Digital Camera System is a series of digital single-lens reflex cameras and digital camera backs that were released by Kodak in the 1990s and 2000s, and discontinued in 2005. They were all based on existing 35mm film SLRs from Nikon and Canon...
  
  , a series of professional digital single-lens reflex cameras

Government

• Department of Children's Services, the name used by some U.S. states for governmental departments dealing with the health, safety and welfare of minors. Other states refer to this type of department as Children & Family Services.
• Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), as in:
  • Deputy Chief of the Air Staff
    Deputy Chief of the Air Staff
    The Deputy Chief of the Air Staff was a senior appointment in the Royal Air Force. The incumbent was the deputy to the Chief of the Air Staff. The post existed from 1918 to 1968 or 1969...
    
    
  • Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff
  • White House Deputy Chief of Staff
• Diplomatic Courier Service is the function responsible for protecting diplomatic pouches and material for the United States Department of State
  United States Department of State
  The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
  
  
• Directorate of Colonial Surveys, the United Kingdom's central survey and mapping organisation for British colonies and protectorates 1946-1957

Law Enforcement

• Delivery of a Controlled Substance, a term commonly used in law enforcement
• Department of Corrective Services
  Department of Corrective Services
  Corrective Services NSW is an agency of the Government of New South Wales that provides custodial and community-based services as an important element of the criminal justice system...
  
   is a department of the Government of New South Wales
  Government of New South Wales
  The form of the Government of New South Wales is prescribed in its Constitution, which dates from 1856, although it has been amended many times since then...
  
   with responsibility for the supervision of adult offenders on community-based or custodial orders
• Detective Chief Superintendent, the senior detective and commander of the Criminal Investigation Department in most forces in the United Kingdom

Entertainment

• DCS Entertainment, an American film, music, auto and office supply company
• Dead Celebrity Status
  Dead Celebrity Status
  Dead Celebrity Status is a Canadian hip-hop group originating in Sudbury, Ontario. Rappers Yas Taalat and Bobby McIntosh, both former members of the rock/rap band Project Wyze, teamed up with onetime DMC World Champion DJ Dopey to form Dead Celebrity Status in 2003.-History:Following the breakup of...
  
  , a Canadian rap rock group.
• Desi Culture Shock, a UK Bhangra group

Commerce

• Direct Commercial Sales, a method of arms sale in the U.S. by which a company directly negotiates with its buyer
• Dynamic Cooking Systems, now a unit of Fisher & Paykel
  Fisher & Paykel
  Fisher & Paykel is a major appliance manufacturing company based in East Tamaki, New Zealand.Originally an importer of domestic refrigerators, Fisher & Paykel now holds over 420 patents and bases its identity on innovative design, particularly in the areas of usability and environmental...
  
  

Other

• Deacon(ess) of the Church of Scotland
• Deaf Children's Society, the only British charity solely dedicated to providing support, information and advice for deaf children and young people, their families and professionals working with them