8-letter words containing i, n, a, c
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- indicant — something that indicates; indicator.
- indicate — to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show: His hesitation really indicates his doubt about the venture.
- indicial — of, relating to, or resembling an indication; indicative: behavior indicial of a personality disorder.
- induciae — the time limit given for a defendant to appear in court after first receiving a citation to appear
- infarcts — Plural form of infarct.
- infracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infract.
- inimical — adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health.
- inky cap — any mushroom of the genus Coprinus, especially C. atramentarius, characterized by gills that disintegrate into blackish liquid after the spores mature.
- insectan — Of or relating to insects.
- instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- instancy — quality of being instant; urgency; pressing nature.
- intactly — in an intact manner
- 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.
- intimacy — the state of being intimate.
- intonaco — (formerly in fresco painting) the last and finest coat of plaster, usually applied in sections and painted while still damp with colors ground in water or a lime-water mixture.
- invocate — invoke.
- irenical — Peaceful, conciliatory; promoting peace, especially over theological or ecclesiastical disputes.
- ironclad — covered or cased with iron plates, as a ship for naval warfare; armor-plated.
- ironical — pertaining to, of the nature of, exhibiting, or characterized by irony or mockery: an ironical compliment; an ironical smile.
- isocyano — containing an isocyano group.
- issuance — the act of issuing.
- iterance — iteration.
- jacinthe — a yellowish orange
- jackling — the winning of the ball, by the defender's team, after a tackle and before a ruck has formed
- jacobian — Alternative capitalization of Jacobian.
- jacobina — a female given name.
- jacobins — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jafaican — a dialect of English spoken in London, with marked Jamaican influences
- jamaican — of or relating to the island of Jamaica or its inhabitants.
- japonica — the camellia, Camellia japonica, having waxy flowers in a variety of colors.
- jaundice — Also called icterus. Pathology. yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis. Compare physiologic jaundice.
- jerrican — Alternative spelling of jerrycan.
- johnniac — (computer) A mainframe computer based on a design by John von Neuman built at the Institute for Advanced Study, USA. The Johnniac went live in 1953 and was decommissioned in 1966. Its memory consisted of 80 special "Selectron" vacuum tubes, each of which held 256 bits of data.
- ka-ching — expressing sth moneymaking
- kachinas — Plural form of kachina.
- keychain — A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
- knacking — Present participle of knack.
- knackish — cunning or artful
- lacanian — of or relating to the ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, esp his interpretations of language and linguistics in psychoanalytic contexts
- lacewing — any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- laciness — a lacy quality or state
- lacinias — Botany. a jagged or irregular part of a leaf or petal.
- laconian — an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
- laconica — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- laconism — laconic brevity.
- lactonic — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
- laitance — a milky deposit on the surface of new cement or concrete, usually caused by too much water.
- lanciers — Plural form of lancier.