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8-letter words containing l, i, t, c, r

  • erotical — (obsolete) Erotic.
  • flichter — (of birds) to fly feebly; flutter.
  • fractile — (statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
  • glutaric — Of or pertaining to glutaric acid or its derivatives.
  • iatrical — of or relating to a physician or medicine; medical.
  • 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.
  • lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
  • leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
  • lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
  • listproc — A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix. See also Listserv, Majordomo.
  • lit crit — literary criticism
  • lit-crit — literary criticism.
  • literacy — the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.
  • liturgic — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
  • 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.
  • lucretia — Also, Lucrece [loo-krees] /luˈkris/ (Show IPA). Roman Legend. a Roman woman whose suicide led to the expulsion of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Roman republic.
  • lyricist — a person who writes the lyrics for songs.
  • marlitic — having the nature of marlite
  • metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
  • multicar — involving several cars
  • nitrolic — of or noting a series of acids of the type RC(=NOH)NO 2 , whose salts form deep-red solutions.
  • particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
  • petrolic — of, relating to, containing, or obtained from petroleum
  • pictural — a picture
  • reticule — a small purse or bag, originally of network but later of silk, rayon, etc.
  • rustical — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
  • rusticly — in a rustic manner
  • sclerite — any chitinous, calcareous, or similar hard part, plate, spicule, or the like.
  • selictar — the sword-bearer of a chieftain
  • sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
  • stickler — a person who insists on something unyieldingly (usually followed by for): a stickler for ceremony.
  • strickle — a straightedge used for sweeping off heaped-up grain to the level of the rim of a measure.
  • strictly — in a strict manner; rigorously; stringently: strictly enforced.
  • tailrace — the race, flume, or channel leading away from a waterwheel or the like.
  • telechir — a robot arm controlled by a human operator
  • telergic — relating to telergy
  • telluric — of or containing tellurium, especially in the hexavalent state.
  • torchlit — illuminated by the light of a torch or torches
  • tractile — capable of being drawn out in length; ductile.
  • tragical — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
  • trickily — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
  • tricklet — a tiny trickle
  • tricolor — Also, tricolored; especially British, tricoloured. having three colors.
  • tricycle — a vehicle, especially one for children, having one large front wheel and two small rear wheels, propelled by foot pedals.
  • trifocal — Optics. having three foci.
  • tritical — trite or hackneyed
  • tropical — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
  • turrical — of, relating to, or resembling a turret.
  • ulbricht — Walter [vahl-tuh r] /ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1893–1973, German Communist leader: chairman of the East German Council of State 1960–73.
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