8-letter words containing a, l, e, n, c
- decaling — a specially prepared paper bearing a picture or design for transfer to wood, metal, glass, etc.
- declinal — the action of politely refusing or declining
- dulcinea — a ladylove; sweetheart.
- ecotonal — Relating to ecotones.
- el cajon — city in S Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 95,000
- elegance — The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.
- elegancy — Alternative form of elegance.
- en clair — in ordinary language; not in cipher
- enclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of enclave.
- enclaves — Plural form of enclave.
- encradle — to put in a cradle
- ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
- eulachon — A small edible fish of North America, Thaleichthys pacificus; the candlefish.
- falconer — a person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking.
- falconet — any of several small Asian falcons, especially of the genus Microhierax.
- flamenco — a style of dancing, characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies, that is strongly rhythmic and involves vigorous actions, as clapping the hands and stamping the feet.
- fuel-can — A derogatory term for the Atari Falcon.
- glackens — William James, 1870–1938, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
- in clear — (of a message, etc) not in code
- in place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- 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.
- irenical — Peaceful, conciliatory; promoting peace, especially over theological or ecclesiastical disputes.
- jackelyn — a female given name.
- lacerant — painfully distressing; harrowing
- 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.
- laciness — a lacy quality or state
- lactogen — (biochemistry) A polypeptide placental hormone, part of the somatotropin family, with structure and function similar to those of growth hormone. It modifies the metabolic state of the mother during pregnancy to facilitate the energy supply of the fetus.
- lactones — Plural form of lactone.
- lacunose — full of or having lacunae.
- lacunule — a small lacuna.
- laitance — a milky deposit on the surface of new cement or concrete, usually caused by too much water.
- lambency — the quality of being lambent.
- lancegay — a lance used in medieval times
- lancelet — any of several small, lancet-shaped burrowing marine animals of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a notochord and bearing structural similarities to both vertebrates and invertebrates.
- lancelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- lanceted — having lancet-headed openings.
- lanciers — Plural form of lancier.
- landrace — one of several widely distributed strains of large, white, lop-eared swine of northern European origin.
- lapdance — Alternative spelling of lap dance.
- larcener — a person who commits larceny.
- launched — to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
- launcher — a person or thing that launches.
- launches — Plural form of launch.
- laurence — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leakance — the reciprocal of the resistance of insulation.