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8-letter words containing a, p, i, c, l

  • epifocal — situated or occurring at an epicentre
  • especial — Better or greater than usual; special.
  • flatpick — a plectrum
  • hairclip — A clip to hold back the hair.
  • haptical — of or relating to the sense of touch: the haptic sensation of holding a real book in your hands.
  • impleach — to intertwine
  • in place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • lapactic — purgative; cathartic.
  • linctape — (storage)   A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
  • lipaemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
  • manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
  • milk cap — any of a large genus (Lactarius) of basidiomycetous fungi that are brittle to touch and exude a milky liquid when crushed. Some are funnel-shaped and some parasol-shaped, and most, except for L. deliciosus, are inedible
  • misplace — to put in a wrong place.
  • omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
  • opticals — (India) spectacles.
  • pachalic — pashalik.
  • pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • palencia — a city in Castilla y León, N Spain.
  • palladic — of or containing palladium, especially in the tetravalent state.
  • palmitic — of or derived from palmitic acid.
  • panicles — a compound raceme.
  • pannicle — a thin layer of body tissue
  • parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
  • particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
  • patchily — characterized by or made up of patches.
  • pectinal — of or resembling a comb
  • peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
  • pelasgic — Pelasgian.
  • pelmatic — of or relating to the sole of the foot
  • percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
  • phacelia — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Phacelia, of the waterleaf family, chiefly of the western U.S. and Mexico, having clusters of violet, blue, or white flowers.
  • phthalic — of or derived from phthalic acid.
  • physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • piacular — expiatory; atoning; reparatory.
  • picloram — a colorless powder, C 6 H 3 Cl 3 N 2 O 2 , used as a systemic herbicide for controlling annual weeds and deep-rooted perennials on noncrop land.
  • pictural — a picture
  • pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
  • pile cap — a reinforced or mass concrete connecting beam cast around the head of a group of piles enabling it to act as a single unit to support the imposed load
  • pinnacle — a lofty peak.
  • pipeclay — a fine, white clay used for making tobacco pipes, whitening parts of military or other dress, etc.
  • placidly — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
  • placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
  • placitum — a plea made in court on behalf of a person or group
  • planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
  • plastics — made of plastic.
  • platinic — of or containing platinum, especially in the tetravalent state.
  • platonic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
  • poetical — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
  • polignac — Prince de, title of Auguste Jules Armand Marie de Polignac. 1780–1847, French statesman; prime minister (1829–30) to Charles X: his extreme royalist and ultramontane policies provoked the 1830 revolution and cost Charles X the throne
  • polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
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