8-letter words containing a, c, e, r, t
- excreate — (obsolete) To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
- execrate — Feel or express great loathing for.
- extracts — Plural form of extract.
- factored — Simple past tense and past participle of factor.
- factures — Plural form of facture.
- farfetch — (obsolete) Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care; a deep stratagem.
- feracity — (obsolete) The state of being feracious, or fruitful.
- footcare — of or relating to the care of one's feet: a footcare specialist.
- footrace — a race run by contestants on foot.
- forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- fractile — (statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
- fracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- fulcrate — having or supported by fulcra
- furcated — Forked or branched.
- hatchery — a place for hatching eggs of hens, fish, etc., especially a large, commercial or government site where the young are hatched, cared for, and sold or distributed.
- hatchure — Alternative form of hachure.
- hectares — Plural form of hectare.
- heptarch — A heptarchist.
- hexeract — (mathematics) A six-dimensional hypercube.
- hieratic — Also, hieratical. of or relating to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
- ice tray — container for freezing water into cubes
- impacter — a person or thing that impacts.
- increate — not created; uncreated.
- interact — to act one upon another.
- intercal — (language, humour) /in't*r-kal/ (Said by the authors to stand for "Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym"). Possibly the most elaborate and long-lived joke in the history of programming languages. It was designed on 1972-05-26 by Don Woods and Jim Lyons at Princeton University. INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one; it is purely a written language, being totally unspeakable. The INTERCAL Reference Manual, describing features of horrifying uniqueness, became an underground classic. An excerpt will make the style of the language clear: It is a well-known and oft-demonstrated fact that a person whose work is incomprehensible is held in high esteem. For example, if one were to state that the simplest way to store a value of 65536 in a 32-bit INTERCAL variable is: DO :1 <- #0$#256 any sensible programmer would say that that was absurd. Since this is indeed the simplest method, the programmer would be made to look foolish in front of his boss, who would of course have happened to turn up, as bosses are wont to do. The effect would be no less devastating for the programmer having been correct. INTERCAL has many other peculiar features designed to make it even more unspeakable. The Woods-Lyons implementation was actually used by many (well, at least several) people at Princeton. Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]> wrote C-INTERCAL in 1990 as a break from editing "The New Hacker's Dictionary", adding to it the first implementation of COME FROM under its own name. The compiler has since been maintained and extended by an international community of technomasochists and is consequently enjoying an unprecedented level of unpopularity. The version 0.9 distribution includes the compiler, extensive documentation and a program library. C-INTERCAL is actually an INTERCAL-to-C source translator which then calls the local C compiler to generate a binary. The code is thus quite portable.
- iterance — iteration.
- lacerant — painfully distressing; harrowing
- lacerate — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- literacy — the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.
- loricate — covered with a lorica.
- lucretia — Also, Lucrece [loo-krees] /luˈkris/ (Show IPA). Roman Legend. a Roman woman whose suicide led to the expulsion of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Roman republic.
- macerate — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- matrices — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- mcmaster — John Bach, 1852–1932, U.S. historian and educator.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- mercator — Gerhardus [jer-hahr-duh s] /dʒərˈhɑr dəs/ (Show IPA), (Gerhard Kremer) 1512–94, Flemish cartographer and geographer.
- merchant — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- metacard — A commercial human interface and hypertext system for Unix and the X Window System, similar to Hypercard.
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- navicert — A form of passport permitting a neutral ship to traverse a blockade in wartime.
- nearctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising temperate Greenland and arctic North America, sometimes including high mountainous regions of the northern Temperate Zone.
- nectared — Imbued or abounding with nectar.
- notecard — A paper card on which notes are written, or which is intended for such use.
- octeract — (mathematics) A eight-dimensional hypercube.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- orchanet — Alternative form of alkanet.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering