8-letter words containing a, c, i, e
- ice pack — pack ice.
- ice rain — freezing rain.
- ice road — a temporary winter road built across ice or frozen ground
- ice tray — container for freezing water into cubes
- iceboats — Plural form of iceboat.
- icecream — Alternative spelling of ice cream.
- iced tea — chilled black tea, often sweetened and flavoured with lemon juice
- icefalls — Plural form of icefall.
- icekhana — an auto-racing competition testing driving skills on a frozen lake.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- icepacks — Plural form of icepack.
- icequake — a disturbance, especially a vibration or series of vibrations, caused by the breaking up of large ice masses.
- icescape — a landscape covered with ice or with snow and ice: the limitless icescapes of Antarctica.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- impacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- impacter — a person or thing that impacts.
- impleach — to intertwine
- in clear — (of a message, etc) not in code
- in place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- inactive — not active: an inactive volcano.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- incanted — Simple past tense and past participle of incant.
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- inchoate — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inchtape — a measuring tape marked out in inches
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increate — not created; uncreated.
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- indicate — to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show: His hesitation really indicates his doubt about the venture.
- induciae — the time limit given for a defendant to appear in court after first receiving a citation to appear
- insectan — Of or relating to insects.
- instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- 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.
- invocate — invoke.
- irenical — Peaceful, conciliatory; promoting peace, especially over theological or ecclesiastical disputes.
- ischemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- issuance — the act of issuing.
- iterance — iteration.
- jacinthe — a yellowish orange
- jacobite — a partisan or adherent of James II of England after his overthrow (1688), or of the Stuarts.
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- jaundice — Also called icterus. Pathology. yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis. Compare physiologic jaundice.
- jerrican — Alternative spelling of jerrycan.
- judicare — a federally funded program providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor.
- kamacite — a nickel-iron alloy found in meteorites.
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- keramics — ceramics.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- kickable — Capable, or deserving of being kicked.