8-letter words containing l, a, s, c
- masscult — the forms of culture, as music, drama, and literature, as selected, interpreted, and popularized by the mass media for dissemination to the widest possible audience.
- mcaleese — Mary (Patricia). born 1951, Irish politician; president of Ireland (1997–2011)
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- miscalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miscall.
- misclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- misclass — to assign to the wrong class
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- molecast — the heap of earth excavated by a mole tunnelling underground
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- mosaical — of or relating to Moses or the writings, laws, and principles attributed to him: Mosaic ethics.
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscatel — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- muscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- musicals — Plural form of musical.
- mystical — mystic; of or relating to supernatural agencies, affairs, occurrences, etc.: a strange, mystical experience.
- nacelles — Plural form of nacelle.
- nachlass — remains (sense 4)
- nicholas — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
- nonclass — Not a class, or not belonging to a class.
- nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
- nuclease — any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of nucleic acids.
- oarlocks — Plural form of oarlock.
- obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- occlusal — the act or state of occluding or the state of being occluded.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- osculate — to come into close contact or union.
- ossicula — Plural form of ossiculum.
- outcalls — Plural form of outcall.
- outclass — to surpass in excellence or quality, especially by a wide margin; be superior: He far outclasses the other runners in the race.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- pascal-f — Pascal extended to include fixed-point arithmetic. E. Nelson, "Pascal-F: Programming Language for Real-Time Automotive Control", IEEE ElectroTechnol. Rev. (USA), 2:39, 1968.
- pascal-m — ["Pascal-m: A Language for Loosely Coupled Distributed Systems", S. Abramsky et al in Distributed Computing Systems, Y. Paker et al eds, Academic Press 1986, pp. 163-189].
- pascal-p — (language) The variant of Pascal used by the UCSD p-system environment. Pascal-P has extended string and array operations, random-access files and separate compilation. It uses P-code intermediate code and is available from Pecan.
- pascal-s — Simplified Pascal. June, 1975. A strict subset of Pascal, omits scalar types, subranges, sets, files, pointers, packed structures, 'with' and 'goto. Source for a complete Pascal-S compiler is in "Pascal-S: A Subset and Its Implementation", N. Wirth in Pascal - The Language and Its Implementation, by D.W. Barron, Wiley 1979.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- placings — The placings in a competition are the relative positions of the competitors at the end or at a particular stage of the competition.
- plastics — made of plastic.
- postical — (of the position of plant parts) behind another part; posterior