9-letter words containing a, c, l, i
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- homicidal — of or relating to homicide.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- ice plant — a plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, native to the Mediterranean region, having fleshy leaves that are covered with glistening vesicles and are sometimes eaten as greens.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- icelandic — of or relating to Iceland, its inhabitants, or their language.
- identical — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- idiotical — of, relating to, or characteristic of an idiot.
- idyllical — Idyllic.
- ileocecal — of, relating to, or involving the ileum and cecum.
- illiac iv — (computer) One of the most infamous supercomputers ever. It used early ideas on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data streams). The project started in 1965, it used 64 processors and a 13MHz clock. In 1976 it ran its first sucessfull application. It had 1MB memory (64x16KB). Its actual performance was 15 MFLOPS, it was estimated in initial predictions to be 1000 MFLOPS. It totally failed as a computer, only a quarter of the fully planned machine was ever built, costs escalated from the $8 million estimated in 1966 to $31 million by 1972, and the computer took three more years of enginering before it was operational. The only good it did was to push research forward a bit, leading way for machines such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.
- illogical — not logical; contrary to or disregardful of the rules of logic; unreasoning: an illogical reply.
- ilocano's — a member of a people of Luzon in the Philippines.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- immanacle — to tie with fetters
- immusical — (archaic) inharmonious; unmusical; discordant.
- impacable — (obsolete) Not to be appeased or quieted.
- impactful — having or manifesting a great impact or effect: After the senator's impactful speech, her bill passed.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- implicant — (propositional calculus) The hypothesis of an implication.
- implicate — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- inbalance — Alternative spelling of imbalance.
- incapable — not capable.
- incapably — In an incapable manner.
- incitable — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- inclimate — Misspelling of inclement.
- inculcate — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- incunable — a book constituting part of a collection of incunabula.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- indexical — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- inelastic — not elastic; lacking flexibility or resilience; unyielding.
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
- inoculant — inoculum.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- interclan — a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor: the Mackenzie clan.
- interlace — progressive coding
- intraclub — Within a club.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
- isoclinal — of or relating to equal direction of inclination; inclining or dipping in the same direction.
- isopycnal — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- italicise — to print in italic type.