8-letter words containing a, c, i, e
- la ceiba — a seaport in N Honduras.
- lacelike — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- lacewing — any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- lachaise — Gaston [gas-tuh n;; French ga-stawn] /ˈgæs tən;; French gaˈstɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1882–1935, U.S. sculptor, born in France.
- lachesis — the Fate who determines the length of the thread of life.
- laciness — a lacy quality or state
- laicized — Simple past tense and past participle of laicize.
- laitance — a milky deposit on the surface of new cement or concrete, usually caused by too much water.
- lanciers — Plural form of lancier.
- laodicea — ancient name of Latakia.
- latticed — having a lattice or latticework.
- lattices — Plural form of lattice.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- lechayim — a toast used in drinking to a person's health or well-being.
- lecithal — having a yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- legacies — Law. a gift of property, especially personal property, as money, by will; a bequest.
- leucemia — leukemia.
- liberace — (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919–87, U.S. pianist and entertainer.
- lichgate — Alternative spelling of lych-gate.
- lie back — sb: recline
- life car — a watertight container used in marine rescue operations, suspended from a hawser and hauled back and forth between a stranded or wrecked vessel and the shore.
- lifecare — the long-term care of the health and welfare of someone, esp an elderly person within a residential community
- lifecast — a live video of one's daily activities, broadcast over the Internet: A lot of people are obsessed with following her daily lifecast.
- lifehack — Informal. a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing a day-to-day task or activity; a hack: a lifehack for overcoming social anxiety; a computer programmer's best lifehacks.
- ligeance — Chiefly Law. the territory subject to a sovereign or liege lord.
- limacine — pertaining to or resembling a slug; sluglike.
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- lipaemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- literacy — the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.
- localise — (transitive) alternative spelling of localize.
- localite — one who lives in a particular locality.
- localize — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- locative — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”.
- lonicera — Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
- loricate — covered with a lorica.
- lucianne — a female given name.
- 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.
- lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
- lycaenid — A member of the taxonomic family 'Lycaenidae'.
- macarise — congratulate
- macarize — To congratulate.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- machined — Simple past tense and past participle of machine.
- machiner — One who operates a machine.
- machines — Plural form of machine.
- macleish — Archibald, 1892–1982, U.S. poet and dramatist.
- macneice — Louis, 1907–63, British poet, born in Northern Ireland.
- maenadic — (Greek mythology) Of, or pertaining to the maenad.
- magicked — Simple past tense and past participle of magic.