Words starting with dire
4 letter words starting with dire
5 letter words starting with dire
- direr — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
6 letter words starting with dire
- 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.
- 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 action — any action seeking to achieve an immediate or direct result, especially an action against an established authority or powerful institution, as a strike or picketing.
7 letter words starting with dire
- 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
8 letter words starting with dire
- 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 dire
- 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.
- directors — Plural form of director.
10 letter words starting with dire
- 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 dire
- 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 dire
- directedness — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- directorates — Plural form of directorate.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
13 letter words starting with dire
- 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 dire
- 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 dire
- directed-energy device — beam weapon.
16 letter words starting with dire
- 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 dire
- directionlessness — Absence of direction.
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