Businesses and organizations

 Sekolah Dasar, term for primary school in Indonesia

 Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service), the intelligence service of the Nazi SS
 Sinistra Democratica (Democratic Left), an Italian political party
 Sisters of the Destitute, a Syro-Malabar Catholic women's order
 Social Democrats (Slovenia), a left-wing Slovenian political party
 Stronnictwo Demokratyczne, Democratic Party, a defunct Polish party
 Sudan Airways (IATA airline d1ww3mh8atwedr1pesignator SD)
 Sweden Democrats, a right wing party in Sweden
 Swiss Democrats or Schweizer Demokraten, a right-wing political party in Switzerland

Places
 San Diego, California
 Shandong, a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation SD)
 South Dakota, US postal abbreviation
 Sudan (ISO country code SD)

Science, technology, and mathematics

Electronics and computing

 Secure Digital, a flash memory card format

 Software Distributor, an HP-UX system
 Standard-definition television
 Super Density disc, an optical disc format

Mathematics

 sd (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions

 Standard deviation, a mathematical statistical measure

Other uses in science and technology

 Spasmodic dysphonia, a voice disorder

 Storm Data, US NOAA publication
 Subdwarf star
 Surface detector of cosmic rays
 System dynamics, understanding nonlinear systems

Other uses
 Sindhi language (ISO 639-1 code "sd")
  Southern Cross Decoration (SD), a South African military award
 Stable disease, a possible outcome of chemotherapy according to the RECIST
classification

See also
 Sanket dadar (shinsuke dadar)
 SD1 (disambiguation)