7-letter words containing a, c, i
- lacking — being without; not having; wanting; less: Lacking equipment, the laboratory couldn't undertake the research project.
- laconia — an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
- laconic — using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.
- laibach — German name of Ljubljana.
- laicism — the nonclerical, or secular, control of political and social institutions in a society (distinguished from clericalism).
- laicity — The principles, status, or influence of the laity.
- laicize — to remove the clerical character or nature of; secularize: to laicize a school; to laicize the office of headmaster.
- lancier — Synonym of lancer.
- lancing — a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging.
- laodice — (in the Iliad) a daughter of Priam and Hecuba who chose to be swallowed up by the earth rather than live as a Greek concubine.
- latices — a plural of latex.
- latinic — of or relating to the Latin language or the ancient Latin-speaking peoples.
- lattice — a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips.
- lechaim — a drinking toast
- leclair — Jean Marie [zhahn ma-ree] /ʒɑ̃ maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1697–1764, French violinist and composer.
- legnica — a city in SW Poland: formerly in Germany.
- lexical — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- liassic — of or pertaining to the Lias series
- lichway — a path used to carry a coffin into a church or to burial
- limacel — a concealed shell, not fully developed, found inside some kinds of slug
- limacon — a plane curve generated by the locus of a point on a line at a fixed distance from the point of intersection of the line with a fixed circle, as the line revolves about a point on the circumference of the circle. Equation: r = a cosθ + b.
- linacre — Thomas, 1460?–1521, English humanist, translator, scholar, and physician.
- linpack — 1. A package of linear algebra routines. 2. The kernel benchmark developed from the "LINPACK" package of linear algebra routines. It was written by Jack Dongarra <[email protected]> in Fortran and is commonly used in that language but there is also a C version. Source Code by FTP: single precision Fortran, double precision Fortran, C.
- locrian — either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece.
- logical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- lucania — an ancient region in S Italy, NW of the Gulf of Taranto.
- lucinda — a female given name, form of Lucy.
- lunatic — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lyrical — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- macchia — A shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries, typically consisting of densely-growing evergreen shrubs.
- macdink — /mak'dink/ To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file. Often the subject of the macdinking would be better off without them. The Macintosh is said to encourage such behaviour. See also fritterware, window shopping.
- machair — (geology) A type of calcerous sandy terrain formed mostly from seashells, found by the coast in areas of Scotland and Ireland.
- machida — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on the Tsurumi River: a suburb of Tokyo.
- machine — an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine.
- maciver — Loren, 1909–1998, U.S. painter.
- macking — a pimp.
- maclisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed at MIT AI Lab in 1966, known for its efficiency and programming facilities. MacLisp was later used by Project MAC, Mathlab and Macsyma. It ran on the PDP-10. It introduced the LEXPR (a function with variable arity), macros, arrays, and CATCH/THROW. MacLisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being Interlisp). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both.
- maffick — to celebrate with extravagant public demonstrations.
- magical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
- mahican — a tribe or confederacy of Algonquian-speaking North American Indians, centralized formerly in the upper Hudson valley.
- malachi — a Minor Prophet of the 5th century b.c.
- malacia — softening, or loss of consistency, of an organ or tissue.
- malefic — productive of evil; malign; doing harm; baneful: a malefic spell.
- malices — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- malicho — mischief or wrongdoing
- malonic — of or derived from malonic acid; propanedioic.
- mandioc — (obsolete) manioc.
- maniack — Obsolete form of maniac.
- maniacs — Plural form of maniac.
- manicou — The common opossum, taxonomic name Didelphis marsupialis.