| Subject | English | Thesaurus |
| ocean., abbr. | Advanced Development Facility | ADF |
| AI. | AI development tool | artificial intelligence development tool (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| abbr., mil., BrE | Army Air Transport Training and Development Centre | AATDC |
| abbr., scottish | Army Air Transport Training & Development Centre | AATDC (UK) |
| abbr., transp. | Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development | ALTID (MAMOHT) |
| AI. | collaborative AI development | collaborative artificial intelligence development (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| mil., abbr. | Combat Development Support Facility | CDSF |
| unions., abbr. | Community Development Credit Union | CDCU |
| mil., abbr. | Crew Station Research and Development Facility | CSRDF |
| abbr., scottish | Crew Station Research & Development Facility | CSRDF |
| abbr., progr. | DB development | database development (ssn) |
| abbr., progr. | DB development | data base development (ssn) |
| abbr. | The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development | (The) Department of Foreign Affairs (Johnny Bravo) |
| abbr. | The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development | DFATD (Johnny Bravo) |
| transp., abbr. | Departure Sequencing Engineering Development Model | DSEDM |
| mil., abbr. | Development and Evaluation Facility | DEF |
| mil., abbr. | Development and Evaluation of Firearms Training Facility | DEFT |
| energ.ind., abbr. | Engineering Process Development Facility | EPDF |
| energ.ind., abbr. | Fusion Target Development Facility | FTDF |
| energ.ind., abbr. | High Level Chemical Development Facility | HLCDF |
| univer., abbr. | Instructional Development Experiences Applications And Solutions | IDEAS |
| comp., abbr. | ISPF Program Development Facility | ISPF/PDF |
| mil., abbr. | Joint Development Facility | JDF |
| abbr., karate. | Joint Service Rotary Wing Aircraft Development | JSRWAD |
| mil., abbr. | National Nuclear Rocket Development Facility | NNRDR |
| mil., abbr. | Naval Supply Research and Development Facility | NSRDF |
| NYSE., abbr. | New Jersey Ecological Development Authority State Pension Funding | NJP |
| IT, abbr. | Program Development Facility | PDF (IBM) |
| abbr., file.ext. | Program Development Facility | PDF |
| ed., abbr. | Reading And Education For Adult Development | READ |
| ed., abbr. | Reading Education For Adult Development | READ |
| ed., abbr. | Reading Enrichment And Development | READ |
| abbr., scottish | Shore Development Facility | SDF |
| mil., abbr. | Software Development Facility | SDF |
| tradem., abbr. | Steinmann Facility Development Consultants | SFDC |
| sport., abbr. | Text Adventure Development System | TADS |
| USA | Transferable Development Credit | TDC |
| mil., abbr. | Transport Research and Development Command | TRDC |
| tradem., abbr. | Waste Engineering Development Facility | WEDF |
| USA | Work Force Development Division | WFDD |
| NASA, abbr. | Work Force Development Opportunities | WFDO |