8-letter words containing r, e, c, l
- fireclay — Clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, chiefly used for making firebricks.
- firelock — a gun having a lock in which the priming is ignited by sparks struck from flint and steel, as the flintlock musket.
- flackery — publicity and promotion; press-agentry.
- fleecier — Comparative form of fleecy.
- fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- flichter — (of birds) to fly feebly; flutter.
- flickers — Plural form of flicker.
- flickery — Seeming to flicker; unsteady.
- flincher — One who flinches.
- florence — Italian Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany.
- fluerics — fluidics.
- forcedly — enforced or compulsory: forced labor.
- forceful — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcible — done or effected by force: forcible entry into a house.
- forclose — Alternative form of foreclose.
- forelock — a pin or flat wedge passed through a hole near the end of a threadless bolt to fasten parts together.
- fractile — (statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
- freckled — Having freckles.
- freckles — Plural form of freckle.
- frickles — Plural form of frickle.
- fulcrate — having or supported by fulcra
- furculae — Plural form of furcula.
- furuncle — boil2 .
- glaciers — an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers.
- glyceria — any aquatic grass species in the genus Glyceria
- glyceric — of or derived from glycerol.
- glycerin — glycerol.
- glycerol — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- glyceryl — containing the glyceryl group.
- graceful — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- grackles — Plural form of grackle.
- grockles — Plural form of grockle.
- hecklers — Plural form of heckler.
- hectorly — in the manner of a hector
- heraclea — an ancient city in S Italy, near the Gulf of Taranto: Roman defeat 280 b.c.
- heracles — Hercules (def 1).
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- herblock — Herbert Lawrence (Herblock) 1909–2001, U.S. cartoonist.
- hercules — a hero noted for his great strength, courage, and for the performance of twelve immense labours
- herschel — Sir John Frederick William, 1792–1871, English astronomer.
- in clear — (of a message, etc) not in code
- incircle — a circle inscribed within a triangle.
- incliner — One who, or that which, inclines, especially an inclined dial.
- incloser — Archaic form of encloser.
- 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.
- knuckler — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- kreplach — Jewish Cookery. turnovers or pockets of noodle dough filled with any of several mixtures, as kasha or chopped chicken livers, usually boiled, and served in soup.
- lacerant — painfully distressing; harrowing