Directing is valid Scrabble Word

Is directing a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is directing valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for DIRECTING in dictionary:

VERB:

DIRECT, to control or conduct the affairs of
control the operations of; manage or govern
supervise and control (a film, play, or other production, or the actors in it)
train and conduct (a group of musicians).
aim (something) in a particular direction or at a particular person
tell or show (someone) how to get somewhere
address or give instructions for the delivery of (a letter or parcel)
address a comment to or aim a criticism at
target a product or advertisement specifically at (someone)
guide or advise in a course or decision

give (someone) an official order or authoritative instruction
focus (one's thoughts) on or address (one's efforts) towards something.

ADVERB:

with no one or nothing in between
by a straight route or without breaking a journey

ADJECTIVE:

extending or moving from one place to another without changing direction or stopping
(of apparent planetary motion) proceeding from west to east in accord with actual motion.
without intervening factors or intermediaries
(of light or heat) proceeding from a source without being reflected or blocked
(of genealogy) proceeding in continuous succession from parent to child
(of taxation) levied on income or profits rather than on goods or services.
complete (used for emphasis)
(of a person or their behaviour) going straight to the point; frank
(of evidence or proof) bearing immediately and unambiguously upon the facts at issue
perpendicular to a surface; not oblique
showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on
(of a quotation) taken from someone's words without being changed.

Words related to DIRECTING

direct9 directed12 directs10 dirigent10

Words that contain DIRECTING

codirecting17 redirecting15 misdirecting18 overdirecting20

How to use DIRECTING in a sentence

He retires with the first squad across the field, directing the skirmishers to hold the ground until they hear three musket-shots from the wood behind.
Directing his attack particularly against the Areopagus, he succeeded in greatly modifying the composition of that body and diminishing its powers.
She used to be quite extraordinarily adroit in the directing of servants, though her manner to them never approached geniality.
He thus spent the best part of his latter years in founding and directing the University of Virginia, including a plan for popular education as well.
Telling Binu Charley to remove the ear-rings, and directing the Poonga- Poonga men to carry out the old fire-tender, Sheldon cleared the devil- devil house and set fire to it.
Think of being the chief figure and directing factor in solving strange mysteries and baffling crimes.
Then, or for the time, at least, he felt sure that a powerful hand was directing him.
It was dark then, by the time that all the evidence had been given, and the Chief Justice had done his directing of the jury.
He might have saved time by directing that his boat should come across the bay to meet him at Liscannor, but he felt that he would prefer not to meet Father Marty at present.
Directing the operations of a very large gun seemed a good job.

Here we again quitted the river, directing our course to the eastward.
Ashman asked further, directing his question to each of the natives in turn, whether they saw the parties plainly enough to make sure they were white men.
The other officers were directing their men in more distant parts of the field, and could not be so easily seen by us.
Doubtless his own experience was the deeper directing force in all this.
Later on, the Afnan returned to the Holy Land, settling near the Mansion of Bahji and directing all his thoughts toward aspects of human culture.
Of course Montreuil held the brains of the army, and it was quite right that the directing intelligences there should feel the loftiness of their position.
The note was one directing him to fall back behind Bull Run, and was in pencil.
After some preliminary action, an order was issued from the War Office directing the troops to retire to the Valley.
The mind itself is expanded in proportion to the quantity it takes in, and is capable of directing it for either good or evil purposes.
She laughed and chatted as if she had not a care in the world, directing much of her conversation to me.
I thought she was directing her attention toward the food in order to eat.
The proper place to look for this class of retired merchants is on the tax books, and not in public assemblies, or among the Directing Boards of benevolent institutions.
For a time I talked at random, directing my whole conversation to him as the law demands.
Of this unholy trinity, we see the Papacy, the ecclesiastical element, in the saddle, riding and directing everything.
Then, with another sudden turn to the left, it sped directly toward a group of officers, who stood nearby directing the firing.
That is to say, God Himself was to be their ruler in a very real, practical sense, directing and working with them in the working out of all their national life.
There is one and she is directing all she is directing and she is succeeding in being and any of that being everything she is everything in failing.
My mother died when I was a mere child, and left these papers sealed, directing me not to open them until I should be twenty-one years old.
This account has been once paid, a special act directing such payment having been approved February 12, 1885.

Similar words containing DIRECT without suffix ing

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