8-letter words containing a, n, t, e, r
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- ingrates — Plural form of ingrate.
- inornate — Not ornate.
- instream — (intransitive) To flow or stream in; flow or stream into.
- integral — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
- interact — to act one upon another.
- interage — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- 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.
- intermat — a patch of seabed devoid of vegetation
- internal — situated or existing in the interior of something; interior.
- internat — international
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- interwar — occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.
- intranet — a computer network with restricted access, as within a company, that uses software and protocols developed for the Internet.
- irangate — a political scandal of 1986 in the United States involving the illegal sale of arms to Iran in return for the release of US hostages held there, and the use of the profits to funds Contra rebels in Nicaragua
- iterance — iteration.
- jaunters — Plural form of jaunter.
- jauntier — Comparative form of jaunty.
- jazerant — a coat of armour composed of metal plates sewn onto cloth
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- labornet — An IGC network serving groups, unions and labour advocates interested in information sharing and collaboration with the intent of enhancing the human rights and economic justice of workers. Issues covered include workplace and community health and safety issues, trade issues and international union solidarity and collaboration.
- lacerant — painfully distressing; harrowing
- lamenter — One who laments.
- lanneret — the male lanner, which is smaller than the female.
- lanterns — Plural form of lantern.
- lateener — a lateen-rigged ship
- later on — a comparative of late: Her later years were not happy.
- latrines — Plural form of latrine.
- leathern — made of leather.
- levanter — a strong easterly wind in the Mediterranean.
- 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).
- lorestan — Luristan.
- lutheran — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- magnetar — A neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field.
- maneater — Alternative spelling of man-eater.
- margents — (obsolete) Plural form of margent.
- marinate — to steep (food) in a marinade.
- maronite — a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- martinet — a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one.
- martinez — a town in W California.
- maternal — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
- merchant — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- metanira — queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- monetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- monstera — any of various tropical American climbing plants belonging to the genus Monstera, of the arum family, especially M. deliciosa, having split or perforated leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.