8-letter words containing p, a, l, c
- lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
- lancepod — any tropical, leguminous tree or shrub of the genus Lonchocarpus, the roots of which yield rotenone.
- lapactic — purgative; cathartic.
- lapdance — Alternative spelling of lap dance.
- lens cap — a small lid or cover for a camera lens which protects it when the camera is not in use
- 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!
- lipaemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- loopback — The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- milk cap — any of a large genus (Lactarius) of basidiomycetous fungi that are brittle to touch and exude a milky liquid when crushed. Some are funnel-shaped and some parasol-shaped, and most, except for L. deliciosus, are inedible
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- octaloop — (genetics) An eight-base hairpin loop motif.
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- pace lap — a lap before the beginning of an auto race for warming up the engines and giving the field a moving start.
- pachalic — pashalik.
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- paleface — Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.
- palencia — a city in Castilla y León, N Spain.
- palladic — of or containing palladium, especially in the tetravalent state.
- palmitic — of or derived from palmitic acid.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- pannicle — a thin layer of body tissue
- parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parclose — (in a church) a screen dividing one area from another, as a chapel from an aisle.
- parfocal — of or relating to different eyepieces (of telescopes or microscopes) that all focus their images in the same plane, so that they can be interchanged without readjusting the instrument.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parlance — a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- 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.
- patchily — characterized by or made up of patches.
- pea coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from about 3/8 to about 13/16 inch (1 to 2 cm).
- peaceful — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peccable — liable to sin or error.
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- pectoral — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- peculate — to appropriate or embezzle (public money)
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pedalcar — a four-wheeled vehicle that is operated by pedals, usually a child's toy
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.