8-letter words containing e, c, l
- 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.
- herblock — Herbert Lawrence (Herblock) 1909–2001, U.S. cartoonist.
- hercules — a hero noted for his great strength, courage, and for the performance of twelve immense labours
- herschel — Sir John Frederick William, 1792–1871, English astronomer.
- hinckley — a town in central England, in Leicestershire. Pop: 43 246 (2001)
- hoccleve — Thomas, 1370–1450, English poet.
- hock leg — a leg similar to a cabriole leg, but having a straight perpendicular section between the upper, convex section and the foot.
- holocene — recent (def 4).
- holodeck — (science fiction) A room that provides holographic simulations for recreation, training, etc.
- hot cell — a protected enclosure, usually made of concrete, containing shielded windows and manipulators operated by remote control, used to handle radioactive materials, as for processing, testing, etc.
- humicole — any plant that thrives on humus
- ice blue — a very pale blue color.
- ice floe — a large flat mass of floating ice.
- ice milk — a frozen food similar to ice cream but made with skim milk.
- ice-blue — Ice-blue is a very pale blue colour.
- ice-cold — cold as ice: Her feet were ice-cold.
- ice-cool — If you describe someone as ice-cool, you admire them because they are calm and do not show emotion in difficult situations.
- iceblink — a yellowish luminosity near the horizon or on the underside of a cloud, caused by the reflection of light from sea ice.
- iceblock — An ice block, a block of ice.
- icefalls — Plural form of icefall.
- icefield — Alternative spelling of ice field.
- icy blue — of a very pale blue colour
- icy pole — an ice cream or water ice on a stick
- idiolect — The speech habits peculiar to a particular person.
- imbecile — Informal. a dunce; blockhead; dolt: Don't stand there like an imbecile. Open the door!.
- impleach — to intertwine
- in clear — (of a message, etc) not in code
- in place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- inchmeal — by inches; inch by inch; little by little.
- incircle — a circle inscribed within a triangle.
- inclined — deviating in direction from the horizontal or vertical; sloping.
- incliner — One who, or that which, inclines, especially an inclined dial.
- inclines — Plural form of incline.
- inclosed — enclose.
- incloser — Archaic form of encloser.
- incloses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inclose.
- included — being part of the whole; contained; covered: Breakfast is included in the price of the room.
- includes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of include.
- indocile — not willing to receive teaching, training, or discipline; fractious; unruly.
- inflects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inflect.
- 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.
- iphicles — a son of Alcmene and Amphitryon, the brother of Hercules.
- irenical — Peaceful, conciliatory; promoting peace, especially over theological or ecclesiastical disputes.
- isocline — a fold of strata so tightly compressed that both limbs dip in the same direction.
- jackelyn — a female given name.
- jacklegs — Plural form of jackleg.
- jaculate — to throw or hurl (a dart, javelin, etc.).
- jellicoe — John Rushworth [ruhsh-wurth] /ˈrʌʃ wɜrθ/ (Show IPA), 1st Earl, 1859–1935, British admiral.
- jocosely — given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful: a jocose and amusing manner.