8-letter words containing c, e, r, a, i
- francine — a female given name, form of Frances.
- francize — to force to adopt French customs and the French language.
- gaiseric — Genseric.
- germanic — of or relating to the Teutons or their languages.
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glyceria — any aquatic grass species in the genus Glyceria
- graecism — the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- graecize — to impart Greek characteristics to.
- grimaced — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- grimaces — Make a grimace.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- haircare — The care and treatment of the hair.
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- hierarch — a person who rules or has authority in sacred matters; high priest.
- hieratic — Also, hieratical. of or relating to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
- hijacker — a person who hijacks.
- hire car — a car that you rent for a specified, usually short, period
- ice rain — freezing rain.
- ice road — a temporary winter road built across ice or frozen ground
- ice tray — container for freezing water into cubes
- icecream — Alternative spelling of ice cream.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- impacter — a person or thing that impacts.
- in clear — (of a message, etc) not in code
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increate — not created; uncreated.
- interact — to act one upon another.
- 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.
- irenical — Peaceful, conciliatory; promoting peace, especially over theological or ecclesiastical disputes.
- iterance — iteration.
- jerrican — Alternative spelling of jerrycan.
- judicare — a federally funded program providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor.
- keramics — ceramics.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- lanciers — Plural form of lancier.
- liberace — (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919–87, U.S. pianist and entertainer.
- life car — a watertight container used in marine rescue operations, suspended from a hawser and hauled back and forth between a stranded or wrecked vessel and the shore.
- lifecare — the long-term care of the health and welfare of someone, esp an elderly person within a residential community
- literacy — the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.
- lonicera — Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
- 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.
- macarise — congratulate
- macarize — To congratulate.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- machiner — One who operates a machine.
- magicker — (fantasy) One who does magic; a sorcerer or magician.