The direness of the situation had him frozen in his place in fear

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern DIR---S-. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter D and 2nd letter I and 3rd letter R and 7th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are:

direness

dirigism

dirtiest

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern D--E--SS. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter D and 4th letter E and 7th letter S and 8th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are:

dateless

direness

doneness

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern DIRE-E--. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter D and 2nd letter I and 3rd letter R and 4th letter E and 6th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

direness

All of the Angry Birds games (there are many) are different and each game has several different criteria in terms of the mood or direness of the challenge which the birds conform their grammar to accommodate. It seems there are many words in the nemesis swine vocabulary, and I'll be damned if I know how they do it, but the designers managed some pretty crafty audio work in a few of these Angry Birds "worlds". If you are a habitual AB player, you'll no doubt find these puzzles and when you do, just remember you're not going crazy, and yes, they DID just say that.