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8-letter words containing i, n, c, a, l

  • intactly — in an intact manner
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • jackling — the winning of the ball, by the defender's team, after a tackle and before a ruck has formed
  • 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.
  • lancings — Plural form of lancing.
  • latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
  • leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
  • lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
  • ligeance — Chiefly Law. the territory subject to a sovereign or liege lord.
  • limacine — pertaining to or resembling a slug; sluglike.
  • 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!
  • linguica — a highly spiced Portuguese garlic sausage.
  • linkback — (Internet) Any of various mechanisms for notifying the owner of a webpage when it is linked to from another document.
  • locating — Present participle of locate.
  • location — memory location
  • logician — a person who is skilled in logic.
  • lonicera — Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
  • lucianne — a female given name.
  • lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
  • lunatics — Plural form of lunatic.
  • lycaenid — A member of the taxonomic family 'Lycaenidae'.
  • lycaonia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
  • machinal — Of, or pertaining to machines.
  • manchild — a male child; boy; son.
  • manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
  • mandalic — Of, or pertaining to, a mandala.
  • maniacal — of or relating to mania or a maniac.
  • manicule — (typography) the pointing hand symbol, used in printing, graphics or signs, to draw attention to or indicate something.
  • mcmillan — Edwin Mattison [mat-uh-suh n] /ˈmæt ə sən/ (Show IPA), 1907–91, U.S. educator and physicist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1951.
  • meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
  • mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
  • milk can — large metal container for milk
  • nautical — of or relating to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
  • navicula — an incense holder or incense boat
  • nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
  • nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
  • noetical — Alternative form of noetic.
  • nonclaim — Failure to make a legal claim.
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