| Subject | English | German |
| AI. | Content Description Language | CDL (Inhaltsbeschreibungssprache) |
| comp., MS | data description language | Datenbeschreibungssprache (A language that defines all attributes and properties of a database, especially record layouts, field definitions, key fields, file locations, and storage strategy) |
| comp., MS | data description language | Datenbeschreibungssprache (A language that defines all attributes and properties of a database, especially record layouts, field definitions, key fields, file locations, and storage strategy) |
| comp. | data description language | Datendefinitionssprache |
| gen. | data description language | Datenbeschreibungssprache |
| busin., IT | database description language | Datenbankbeschreibungssprache |
| busin., IT | database description language | Datenbank-Beschreibungssprache |
| IT | description language | Beschreibungssprache |
| busin., IT | document description language | Dokumentbeschreibungssprache |
| gen. | document description languages | Dokument-Beschreibungssprachen |
| AI. | frame-based description language | framebasierte Beschreibungssprache |
| el. | functional specifications and description language | funktionale Beschreibungs- und Spezifikationssprache |
| busin., IT | method description language | Methodenbeschreibungssprache |
| gen. | multilevel structural description language | strukturelle Multiniveau-Beschreibungssprache |
| IT, dat.proc. | page description language | Seitenbeschreibungssprache |
| AI. | pattern description language | Musterbeschreibungssprache |
| commun., IT | picture description language | Bildbeschreibungssprache |
| AI. | Picture Description Language | PDL (Bildbeschreibungssprache) |
| gen. | picture description languages | Bildbeschreibungssprachen |
| busin., IT | problem description language | Problembeschreibungssprache |
| gen. | scene description languages | Sprachen für die Szenenbeschreibung |
| comp., MS | Web Service Description Language Schema | Web Service Description Language-Schema (An interface implemented in the XML message format for describing the network services offered by the server) |