8-letter words containing c, l, e, n
- lancelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- lanceted — having lancet-headed openings.
- lanciers — Plural form of lancier.
- landrace — one of several widely distributed strains of large, white, lop-eared swine of northern European origin.
- lapdance — Alternative spelling of lap dance.
- larcener — a person who commits larceny.
- launched — to set (a boat or ship) in the water.
- launcher — a person or thing that launches.
- launches — Plural form of launch.
- laurence — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leakance — the reciprocal of the resistance of insulation.
- lecanora — any of various crustaceous lichens of the genus Lecanora, some of which are eaten and some of which are used in dyeing
- lecithin — Biochemistry. any of a group of phospholipids, occurring in animal and plant tissues and egg yolk, composed of units of choline, phosphoric acid, fatty acids, and glycerol.
- lecterns — Plural form of lectern.
- lections — Plural form of lection.
- leeching — any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, certain freshwater species of which were formerly much used in medicine for bloodletting.
- lemnisci — Plural form of lemniscus.
- lenience — the quality or state of being lenient.
- leniency — the quality or state of being lenient.
- lens cap — a small lid or cover for a camera lens which protects it when the camera is not in use
- lenticel — a body of cells formed on the periderm of a stem, appearing on the surface of the plant as a lens-shaped spot, and serving as a pore.
- lenticle — a window in a clock case revealing the motion of the pendulum bob.
- leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
- letching — a lecherous desire or craving.
- leucaena — any of various tropical trees belonging to the genus Leucaena, of the legume family, which includes the lead tree.
- leucosin — an albumin occurring in some cereal grains, such as wheat
- lexicons — Plural form of lexicon.
- licenced — license.
- licencee — a person, company, etc., to whom a license is granted or issued.
- licences — Plural form of licence.
- licensed — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- licensee — a person, company, etc., to whom a license is granted or issued.
- licenser — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- licenses — Plural form of license.
- licensor — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- lichened — Covered with lichen.
- lichenin — a white, gelatinous, polysaccharide starch, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n , obtained from various lichens.
- liebchen — A person who is very dear to another (often used as a term of endearment).
- ligeance — Chiefly Law. the territory subject to a sovereign or liege lord.
- limacine — pertaining to or resembling a slug; sluglike.
- limnetic — pertaining to or living in the open water of a freshwater pond or lake.
- 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!
- lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- line cut — an engraving consisting only of lines or areas that are solid black or white. Compare halftone (def 2).
- linoleic — of or derived from linoleic acid.
- lochearn — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- longcase — A longcase clock.