Words containing dir
4 letter words containing dir
5 letter words containing dir
- dirac — Paul Adrien Maurice, 1902–84, British physicist, in the U.S. after 1971: Nobel Prize 1933.
- diram — A Tajikistani coin; 100 dirams equal one somoni.
- direr — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- dirft — Do It Right the First Time
- dirge — a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
6 letter words containing dir
- agadir — a port in SW Morocco, which became the centre of an international crisis (1911), when a gunboat arrived to protect German interests. Britain issued a strong warning to Germany but the French negotiated and war was averted. In 1960 the town was virtually destroyed by an earthquake, about 10 000 people being killed. Pop: 385 000 (2003)
- dirdum — blame.
- direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- direly — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- direst — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
7 letter words containing dir
- andiron — either of a pair of metal supports with ornamented front uprights, used to hold the wood in a fireplace
- avodire — a yellow hardwood from an African tree
- bedirty — to make (thoroughly) dirty
- candiru — a tiny parasitic freshwater catfish of the Amazon region
- directs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of direct.
8 letter words containing dir
- andirons — Plural form of andiron.
- codirect — to direct jointly
- directed — proceeding in a straight line or by the shortest course; straight; undeviating; not oblique: a direct route.
- directer — Comparative form of direct.
- directly — in a direct line, way, or manner; straight: The path leads directly to the lake.
9 letter words containing dir
- cediranib — A potent inhibitor of VEGF receptor tyrosine kinases, under development as a possible anticancer drug.
- diradical — an atom or molecule having two unpaired electrons.
- directest — Superlative form of direct.
- directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- direction — the act or an instance of directing.
10 letter words containing dir
- adirondack — a member of an Algonquian people living mainly north of the St. Lawrence River.
- arthrodire — any of numerous fishes of the extinct order Arthrodira, widely distributed during the Devonian Period, having the anterior part of the body covered by a shield of bony plates.
- codirector — a fellow director
- directable — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- directions — the act or an instance of directing.
11 letter words containing dir
- co-director — to direct (a movie or other performance) with another or others.
- codirection — joint direction
- codirectors — Plural form of codirector.
- direct-dial — being a telephone or telephone system enabling long-distance calls to be direct-dialed.
- directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
12 letter words containing dir
- abd-el-kadir — 1807?–83, Algerian leader.
- directedness — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- directorates — Plural form of directorate.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- dirty-minded — tending to have vulgar, obscene, or lewd thoughts, interpretations, etc.
13 letter words containing dir
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- direct-access — pertaining to the ability to obtain data from, or place data in, external storage without the need to sequentially scan other data contained there.
- direct-acting — (of a steam pump) having the steam pistons connected directly to the pump pistons without a crankshaft or flywheel.
- direct-mailer — a person or firm engaged in direct-mail advertising.
- directionally — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
14 letter words containing dir
- direct-examine — to subject to direct examination. Compare cross-examine (def 2).
- direct-reading — (of an instrument) calibrated so that a given quantity to be measured can be read directly off the scale without the need of a multiplying constant
- directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
- inner-directed — guided by internalized values rather than external pressures.
15 letter words containing dir
- bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
- omnidirectional — sending or receiving signals in all directions: an omnidirectional microphone.
- quick-and-dirty — Informal. slipshod.
16 letter words containing dir
- bidirectionality — capable of reacting or functioning in two, usually opposite, directions.
- director-general — the executive head of an organization or of a major subdivision, as a branch or agency, of government.
- multidirectional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
17 letter words containing dir
- directionlessness — Absence of direction.
- multi-directional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
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