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9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an alphabetical list of names and addresses
noun (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)
originFrom Middle English directorie, dyrectorye, from Medieval Latin dīrēctōrium. By surface analysis, direct + -ory. Doublet of directorium. The political sense is a semantic loan from French directoire.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- rectory 12
- cidery 12
- cytode 12
- cytoid 12
- dioecy 12
- creditor 11
- director 11
- coyed 11
- cyder 11
- decoy 11
- decry 11
- dicey 11