8-letter words containing n, t, e, r
- interage — the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- interbed — (of a stratum) be embedded among or between others.
- 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.
- intercom — an intercommunication system.
- intercur — (obsolete, intransitive) To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.
- intercut — to cut from one type of shot to another, as from a long shot to a closeup.
- interess — to interest
- interest — the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something: She has a great interest in the poetry of Donne.
- interims — Plural form of interim.
- intering — Present participle of inter.
- interior — being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center: the interior rooms of a house.
- interlan — A brand of Ethernet card.
- interlay — to lay between; interpose.
- intermat — a patch of seabed devoid of vegetation
- intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
- intermix — Mix together.
- internal — situated or existing in the interior of something; interior.
- internat — international
- interned — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
- internee — a person who is or has been interned, as a prisoner of war.
- internet — a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually preceded by the). The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols.
- internic — Internet Network Information Center
- interpel — (transitive, obsolete) To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with.
- interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
- interred — to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- interrex — a person holding supreme authority in a state during an interregnum.
- interrow — occurring or existing between rows
- interset — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- intersex — an individual having reproductive organs or external sexual characteristics of both male and female.
- intertec — (company) The computer manufacturer that built the Superbrain. All Intertec systems were sold, installed and serviced by dealers. Intertec manufactured the entire product including designing and producing the circuit boards and molding the cabinets. Intertec's first products were terminals - a dumb terminal called "Intertube" and a smart terminal that emulated various common terminals (VT100 etc.) called "The Emulator". The terminals looked similar to the Superbrain, but smaller.
- intertex — (obsolete) To intertwine; to weave or bind together.
- intertie — (construction, architecture) In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another.
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- interwar — occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.
- interweb — (often lowercase) the Internet: used jocularly when pretending to be or referring to an inexperienced Internet user, or when expressing a disdain for certain Internet content: vague recollections presented as fact on the Interweb.
- inthrone — enthrone.
- intirely — Obsolete spelling of entirely.
- intirety — Archaic spelling of entirety.
- intorted — twisted inwardly about an axis or fixed point; curled; wound: intorted horns.
- intranet — a computer network with restricted access, as within a company, that uses software and protocols developed for the Internet.
- intrench — Alternative form of entrench.
- intrepid — resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.
- intrigue — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- intrince — intricate or involved
- introrse — turned or facing inward, as anthers that open toward the gynoecium.
- intruded — Simple past tense and past participle of intrude.
- intruder — to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
- intrudes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intrude.
- inturned — an inward turn or curve around an axis or fixed point.
- inventor — a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.