8-letter words containing e, c, l
- lex loci — the law of a place.
- lexicog. — lexicographical
- lexicons — Plural form of lexicon.
- libeccio — a strong westerly or southwesterly wind blowing onto the W coast of Corsica
- liberace — (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919–87, U.S. pianist and entertainer.
- 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.
- lichgate — Alternative spelling of lych-gate.
- licorice — a Eurasian plant, Glycyrrhiza glabra, of the legume family.
- lie back — sb: recline
- liebchen — A person who is very dear to another (often used as a term of endearment).
- 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
- lifecast — a live video of one's daily activities, broadcast over the Internet: A lot of people are obsessed with following her daily lifecast.
- lifehack — Informal. a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing a day-to-day task or activity; a hack: a lifehack for overcoming social anxiety; a computer programmer's best lifehacks.
- ligeance — Chiefly Law. the territory subject to a sovereign or liege lord.
- limacine — pertaining to or resembling a slug; sluglike.
- limerick — a county in N Munster, in the SW Republic of Ireland. 037 sq. mi. (2686 sq. km).
- 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.
- lipaemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- lipocyte — fat cell.
- liquesce — to become liquid
- listicle — a published article structured in the form of a list, typically having some additional content relating to each item: “The Best Cities for Singles” and other featured listicles.
- literacy — the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.
- lithemic — relating to an excessive or uric acid in the blood
- livelock — (computing) A condition resembling deadlock in which various computational processes are constantly changing but never reach a point where any of them can proceed.
- localise — (transitive) alternative spelling of localize.
- localite — one who lives in a particular locality.
- localize — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- locatect — an architect whose buildings are designed to use local materials and labour and which are sensitive to the needs of the local environment and community
- locative — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”.
- locavore — a person who makes an effort to eat food that is grown, raised, or produced locally, usually within 100 miles of home.
- lochearn — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- lockable — capable of being locked; fitted with a lock: The car has a lockable glove compartment.
- lockless — without locks
- lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
- locomote — to move about, especially under one's own power.
- locoweed — any of various leguminous plants of the genera Astragalus and Oxytropis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, causing locoism in sheep, horses, etc.