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8-letter words containing c, a, t, l, n

  • cliental — a person or group that uses the professional advice or services of a lawyer, accountant, advertising agency, architect, etc.
  • cola nut — any of the seeds of the cola tree, which contain caffeine and theobromine and are used medicinally and in the manufacture of soft drinks
  • colatina — a city in SE Brazil.
  • colation — The act of straining or filtering; filtration.
  • colorant — A colorant is a substance that is used to give something a particular color.
  • coltrane — John (William). 1926–67, US jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer
  • conepatl — a hog-nosed skunk
  • conflate — If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one.
  • consulta — an official meeting or consultation
  • contrail — a white trail of condensed water vapor that sometimes forms in the wake of an aircraft; vapor trail
  • coolants — Plural form of coolant.
  • cortland — a variety of large, dark-red apple
  • covalent — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
  • crotalin — a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
  • cumulant — (mathematics) Any of a set of parameters of a one-dimensional probability distribution of a certain form.
  • cut nail — a nail having a tapering rectangular form with a blunt point, made by cutting from a thin rolled sheet of iron or steel.
  • daltonic — color blindness, especially the inability to distinguish red from green.
  • ecotonal — Relating to ecotones.
  • ethnical — (rare) Ethnic.
  • falconet — any of several small Asian falcons, especially of the genus Microhierax.
  • galactan — any of the class of hexosans, as agar, that yield galactose upon hydrolysis.
  • galactin — prolactin.
  • intactly — in an intact manner
  • 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.
  • lacerant — painfully distressing; harrowing
  • 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.
  • lactonic — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
  • laitance — a milky deposit on the surface of new cement or concrete, usually caused by too much water.
  • 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.
  • lanceted — having lancet-headed openings.
  • latch on — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
  • latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
  • 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!
  • locating — Present participle of locate.
  • location — memory location
  • lunatics — Plural form of lunatic.
  • montcalm — Louis Joseph [lwee zhaw-zef] /lwi ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1712–59, French general in Canada.
  • nautical — of or relating to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
  • noetical — Alternative form of noetic.
  • nucleate — having a nucleus.
  • octangle — octangular.
  • octantal — relating to an octant
  • osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
  • pectinal — of or resembling a comb
  • pentacle — pentagram.
  • placenta — Anatomy, Zoology. the organ in most mammals, formed in the lining of the uterus by the union of the uterine mucous membrane with the membranes of the fetus, that provides for the nourishment of the fetus and the elimination of its waste products.
  • planchet — a flat piece of metal for stamping as a coin; a coin blank.
  • planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
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