8-letter words containing a, r, n
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- infrared — the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- ingather — to gather or bring in, as a harvest.
- ingrafts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingraft.
- ingrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingrain.
- ingrates — Plural form of ingrate.
- inhalers — Plural form of inhaler.
- inhearse — (transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
- inkerman — a town in S Crimea, in S Ukraine: Russian defeat by the English and French 1854.
- inlander — a person living inland.
- inlarged — Simple past tense and past participle of inlarge.
- inornate — Not ornate.
- inradius — the radius of the circle inscribed in a triangle.
- inroaded — Simple past tense and past participle of inroad.
- instream — (intransitive) To flow or stream in; flow or stream into.
- insurant — a person who takes out an insurance policy.
- intarsia — an art or technique of decorating a surface with inlaid patterns, especially of wood mosaic, developed during the Renaissance.
- 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.
- inthrall — Archaic form of enthrall.
- intraday — occurring during a single day.
- intrados — the interior curve or surface of an arch or vault.
- intranet — a computer network with restricted access, as within a company, that uses software and protocols developed for the Internet.
- intrans. — intransitive
- intrants — Plural form of intrant.
- inurbane — not urbane; lacking in courtesy, refinement, etc.
- invaders — Plural form of invader.
- inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
- ion trap — any device used to prevent ions in an electron beam from striking other apparatus, especially in mass spectrometry.
- iraklion — a seaport in N Crete.
- 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
- irenical — Peaceful, conciliatory; promoting peace, especially over theological or ecclesiastical disputes.
- irishman — a man born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
- iron age — the period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, marked by the use of implements and weapons made of iron.
- iron man — Calvin Edward, Jr ("Cal"; "Iron Man") born 1960, U.S. baseball player.
- iron pan — a hard layer of precipitated iron salts often found below the surface of sands and gravels
- ironbark — any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.
- ironclad — covered or cased with iron plates, as a ship for naval warfare; armor-plated.