8-letter words containing t, a, i, c
- intactly — in an intact manner
- interact — to act one upon another.
- 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.
- intimacy — the state of being intimate.
- intonaco — (formerly in fresco painting) the last and finest coat of plaster, usually applied in sections and painted while still damp with colors ground in water or a lime-water mixture.
- invocate — invoke.
- iotacism — the conversion of other vowel sounds, especially in Modern Greek, into (ē), the sound of iota.
- iscariot — the surname of Judas, the betrayer of Jesus. Mark 3:19; 14:10, 11.
- isostacy — Geology. the equilibrium of the earth's crust, a condition in which the forces tending to elevate balance those tending to depress.
- isotachs — Plural form of isotach.
- iterance — iteration.
- jacinthe — a yellowish orange
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- jacobite — a partisan or adherent of James II of England after his overthrow (1688), or of the Stuarts.
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- justicia — any of numerous plants and shrubs of the genus Justicia, which includes the shrimp plant and water willow.
- kamacite — a nickel-iron alloy found in meteorites.
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- kicktail — The upwards-bent tip of the deck of a skateboard.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- lactific — yielding milk
- lactonic — any of a group of internal esters derived from hydroxy acids.
- laitance — a milky deposit on the surface of new cement or concrete, usually caused by too much water.
- lapactic — purgative; cathartic.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- latticed — having a lattice or latticework.
- lattices — Plural form of lattice.
- lecithal — having a yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- lichgate — Alternative spelling of lych-gate.
- lifecast — a live video of one's daily activities, broadcast over the Internet: A lot of people are obsessed with following her daily lifecast.
- liftback — hatchback.
- 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!
- literacy — the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.
- localist — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- localite — one who lives in a particular locality.
- locality — a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- location — memory location
- locative — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”.
- 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.
- lunatics — Plural form of lunatic.
- macintoy — /mak'in-toy/ The Apple Macintosh, considered as a toy. Less pejorative than Macintrash.
- macrotia — (medicine) Abnormal development of the auricle of the ear.
- magmatic — Geology. molten material beneath or within the earth's crust, from which igneous rock is formed.
- magnetic — of or relating to a magnet or magnetism.
- maieutic — of or relating to the method used by Socrates of eliciting knowledge in the mind of a person by interrogation and insistence on close and logical reasoning.
- majestic — characterized by or possessing majesty; of lofty dignity or imposing aspect; stately; grand: the majestic Alps.
- malecite — a member of a North American Indian people of southern and western New Brunswick and northern Maine.
- maledict — accursed.