Index of English words, starting with "di"

(1) - Directory (n.) Direction; guide.
(2) - Directory (n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.
(3) - Directory (n.) A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
(4) - Directory (n.) A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.
(5) - Directory (a.) Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.

(1) - Directress (n.) A woman who directs.

(1) - Directrix (n.) A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.
(2) - Directrix (n.) A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface.
(3) - Directrix (n.) A directress.

(1) - Direful (a.) Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.