8-letter words containing a, l, t, e, r, i
- integral — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
- 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.
- interlan — A brand of Ethernet card.
- interlay — to lay between; interpose.
- internal — situated or existing in the interior of something; interior.
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- irrelate — (archaic) unrelated; not connected.
- laborite — a member of a political party promoting the interests of labor.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- laetrile — a controversial drug, purported to cure cancer, prepared from the pits of apricots or peaches and containing about 6 percent cyanide by weight: banned by the FDA.
- lamister — lamster.
- large it — to enjoy oneself or celebrate in an extravagant way
- lariated — Simple past tense and past participle of lariat.
- lartigue — Jacques Henri [zhahk ahn-ree] /ʒɑk ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1894–1986, French photographer and painter.
- laterite — a reddish ferruginous soil formed in tropical regions by the decomposition of the underlying rocks.
- laterize — to develop into a laterite
- latrines — Plural form of latrine.
- lazurite — a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate and sulfide, Na 5 Al 3 Si 3 O 12 S 3 , occurring in deep-blue crystals, used for ornamental purposes.
- lemaitre — Francois Élie Jules [frahn-swa ey-lee zhyl] /frɑ̃ˈswa eɪˈli ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1835–1915, French critic and dramatist.
- levirate — the custom of marriage by a man with his brother's widow, such marriage required in Biblical law if the deceased was childless. Deut. 25:5–10.
- liberate — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
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- libertas — the ancient Roman personification of liberty.
- librated — Simple past tense and past participle of librate.
- liferaft — Alternative spelling of life raft.
- ligature — the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
- linarite — a mineral, a complex basic sulfate of lead and copper, having a deep-blue color resembling that of azurite.
- line art — graphic material that consists of lines or areas of pure black and pure white and requires no screening for reproduction. Compare halftone (def 2).
- liparite — a light-coloured, igneous rock made of quartz
- listeria — any of several rod-shaped, aerobic, parasitic bacteria of the genus Listeria, pathogenic for humans and animals.
- literacy — the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.
- literals — Plural form of literal.
- literary — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
- literate — able to read and write.
- literati — Well-educated people who are interested in literature.
- litharge — a yellowish or reddish, odorless, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, PbO, used chiefly in the manufacture of storage batteries, pottery, lead glass, paints, enamels, and inks.
- litreage — a capacity measured in litres
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- loricate — covered with a lorica.
- 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.
- material — the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.
- materiel — the aggregate of things used or needed in any business, undertaking, or operation (distinguished from personnel).
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- misalter — to alter wrongly
- orbitale — Craniometry, Cephalometry. the lowermost point on the lower margin of the left orbit, located instrumentally on the skull or by palpation on the head.
- oriental — (usually initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Orient, or East; Eastern.
- parietal — Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- pearlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.