8-letter words containing a, c, r, n
- enhancer — Something that enhances.
- enneract — (mathematics) A nine-dimensional hypercube.
- entrance — An opening, such as a door, passage, or gate, that allows access to a place.
- ethnarch — (historical, Ancient Greece) The governor of a province or people.
- etruscan — a member of an ancient people of central Italy whose civilization influenced the Romans, who had suppressed them by about 200 bc
- falconer — a person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking.
- falconry — the sport of hunting with falcons, hawks, eagles, etc.; hawking.
- fanciers — Plural form of fancier.
- financer — (finance) An entity that provides financing.
- flancard — a piece of armour covering a horse's flank
- florican — any of various smaller species of bustards.
- fornical — any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.
- fracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- fracting — Alternative form of fracking.
- fraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fractons — Plural form of fracton.
- francais — (borrowed) The French language.
- francaix — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1912–1997, French composer.
- franchot — a male given name, form of Francis.
- francine — a female given name, form of Frances.
- francium — a radioactive element of the alkali metal group. Symbol: Fr; atomic number: 87.
- francize — to force to adopt French customs and the French language.
- fricando — fricandeau.
- furnaced — (in combinations) having a particular type or number of furnaces.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- garcinia — Mangosteen (of the genus Garcinia).
- genearch — a chief of a family or tribe.
- germanic — of or relating to the Teutons or their languages.
- granicus — a river in NW Turkey, flowing N to the Sea of Marmara: battle 334 b.c. 45 miles (70 km) long.
- granitic — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- grenache — a variety of grape used in winemaking, especially for table wines in the Rhône Valley of France and for a type of rosé in California.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- gynarchy — government by women.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- hand-car — a small railroad car or platform on four wheels propelled by a mechanism worked by hand, used on some railroads for inspecting tracks and transporting workers.
- handcars — Plural form of handcar.
- handcart — a small cart drawn or pushed by hand.
- harmonic — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- hyrcania — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- ice rain — freezing rain.
- in clear — (of a message, etc) not in code
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- incisura — (anatomy) a notch or indent.
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increate — not created; uncreated.
- incroach — Archaic form of encroach.
- infarcts — Plural form of infarct.
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- 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.