Words starting with dir
4 letter words starting with dir
5 letter words starting with 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 starting with dir
- 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.
- dirges — Plural form of dirge.
7 letter words starting with dir
- directs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of direct.
- directx — (programming, hardware) A Microsoft programming interface standard, first included with Windows 95. DirectX gives (games) programmers a standard way to gain direct access to enhanced hardware features under Windows 95 instead of going via the Windows 95 GDI. Some DirectX code runs faster than the equivalent under MS DOS. DirectX promises performance improvements for graphics, sound, video, 3D, and network capabilites of games, but only where both hardware and software support DirectX. DirectX 2 introduced the Direct3D interface. Version 5 was current at 1998-02-01. Version 8.1 is included in Windows XP.
- direful — dreadful; awful; terrible.
- dirempt — to separate (something) forcefully or violently
- dirhams — Plural form of dirham.
8 letter words starting with dir
- 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.
- director — a person or thing that directs.
- diredawa — a city in E Ethiopia.
9 letter words starting with dir
- 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.
- directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
10 letter words starting with dir
- 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.
- directives — Plural form of directive.
- directness — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- directoire — noting or pertaining to the style of French furnishings and decoration of the mid-1790s, characterized by an increasing use of Greco-Roman forms along with an introduction, toward the end, of Egyptian motifs: usually includes the Consulate period.
11 letter words starting with dir
- 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.
- directivity — (geology) The effect of earthquake motion propagation being greater in the direction of the rupture.
- directorate — the office of a director.
- directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
12 letter words starting with dir
- 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 starting with dir
- 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.
- directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
14 letter words starting with 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.
15 letter words starting with dir
- directed-energy device — beam weapon.
16 letter words starting with dir
- director-general — the executive head of an organization or of a major subdivision, as a branch or agency, of government.
17 letter words starting with dir
- directionlessness — Absence of direction.
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