8-letter words containing i, l, c, o
- linstock — a staff with one end forked to hold a match, formerly used in firing cannon.
- lion cub — baby lion
- lip lock — Slang. a long and passionate kiss.
- lip-lock — Slang. a long and passionate kiss.
- lipocyte — fat cell.
- liposuck — to subject to liposuction
- lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.
- listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
- 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.
- lobstick — lopstick.
- localise — (transitive) alternative spelling of localize.
- localism — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- localist — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- localite — one who lives in a particular locality.
- locality — a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality.
- localize — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- location — memory location
- locative — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”.
- lockings — Plural form of locking.
- lockpick — a device that enables a burglar to open a lock.
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- lodicule — one of the specialized scales at the base of the ovary of certain grass flowers.
- log chip — the wooden chip of a chip log, for holding the end of the log line.
- logician — a person who is skilled in logic.
- logicise — to make logical; give logical form to: to logicize a sequence of events.
- logicism — the doctrine, developed chiefly by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, that mathematics can be reduced to logic.
- logicist — (philosophy) An adherent of logicism.
- logicize — to make logical; give logical form to: to logicize a sequence of events.
- logistic — of or relating to logistic.
- logjuice — poor quality port wine
- lonicera — Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
- lopstick — a tree trimmed of all but its topmost branches to serve as a landmark or marker.
- lordotic — Pathology. an abnormal forward curvature of the spine in the lumbar region, resulting in a swaybacked posture. Compare kyphosis, scoliosis.
- loricate — covered with a lorica.
- lovesick — languishing with love: a lovesick adolescent.
- luscious — highly pleasing to the taste or smell: luscious peaches.
- lycaonia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- lycopsid — Any primitive plant of the division Lycopodiophyta.
- maiolica — majolica.
- majolica — Italian earthenware covered with an opaque glaze of tin oxide and usually highly decorated.
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- micro ml — (uML) An interpreter for a subset of SML. Runs on MS-DOS. Written at the University of Umea, Sweden.
- microlog — (architecture) A section of non-volitile memory used to record state information. Often used for retaining crash information after a reboot in embedded systems.
- microlux — a millionth of a lux
- milk cow — a cow that is raised for its milk rather than for beef.
- miltonic — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- mindlock — (fantasy, scifi) A magic spell or technology that restricts a person's ability to think freely.