8-letter words containing r, e, l, n, t
- 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.
- interlan — A brand of Ethernet card.
- interlay — to lay between; interpose.
- internal — situated or existing in the interior of something; interior.
- 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.
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- intirely — Obsolete spelling of entirely.
- jetliner — a commercial jet plane for carrying passengers.
- labornet — An IGC network serving groups, unions and labour advocates interested in information sharing and collaboration with the intent of enhancing the human rights and economic justice of workers. Issues covered include workplace and community health and safety issues, trade issues and international union solidarity and collaboration.
- lacerant — painfully distressing; harrowing
- lamenter — One who laments.
- lanneret — the male lanner, which is smaller than the female.
- lanterns — Plural form of lantern.
- lateener — a lateen-rigged ship
- later on — a comparative of late: Her later years were not happy.
- latrines — Plural form of latrine.
- le nôtre — André (ɑ̃dre). 1613–1700, French landscape gardener, who created the gardens at Versailles for Louis XIV
- leathern — made of leather.
- lecterns — Plural form of lectern.
- leinster — a province in the E Republic of Ireland. 7576 sq. mi. (19,620 sq. km).
- letronne — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (100 km) in diameter.
- levanter — a strong easterly wind in the Mediterranean.
- lientery — a form of diarrhea in which the food is discharged undigested or only partly digested.
- linarite — a mineral, a complex basic sulfate of lead and copper, having a deep-blue color resembling that of azurite.
- lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- line art — graphic material that consists of lines or areas of pure black and pure white and requires no screening for reproduction. Compare halftone (def 2).
- lingster — an interpreter
- lintfree — Free of lint.
- listener — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- longterm — covering a relatively long period of time: a long-term lease.
- lorestan — Luristan.
- low rent — Informal. second-rate; bargain-basement.
- low-rent — Informal. second-rate; bargain-basement.
- lutheran — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- maternal — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
- minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
- montreal — a seaport in S Quebec, in E Canada, on an island (Montreal Island) in the St. Lawrence.
- nervelet — a small, delicate nerve
- neutrals — Plural form of neutral.
- on alert — If soldiers or police are on alert, they are ready to deal with anything that may happen.
- oriental — (usually initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Orient, or East; Eastern.
- ornately — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- outlearn — to exceed in learning
- outliner — A computer application that produces a hierarchically arranged outline of the logical structure of a text document.
- parental — of or relating to a parent.
- paternal — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
- petronel — a firearm of large calibre used in the 16th and early 17th centuries, esp by cavalry soldiers
- plankter — any organism that is an element of plankton.
- plectron — plectrum.