dire /dīr/

1. Dreadful
2. Extremely calamitous
3. Urgent
4. Portentous

direˈful adjective (poetic)

direˈfully adverb

direˈfulness noun

direˈness noun

dire wolf noun

Canis dirus, a large extinct wolf of the Pleistocene epoch

• second wind
• second winds
• Second World
• second wrangler
• secrecies
• secrecy
• sec. reg.
• secret
• secreta
• secretage
• secret agent
• secret agents
• secretages
• secretagogue
• secretaire
• secretaires
• secretaire à abattant
• secretarial
• secretariat
• secretariate
• secretariates
• secretariats
• secretaries
• Secretaries of State
• secretary