8-letter words containing t, a, l, e, n
- halftone — Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
- hartline — Haldan Keffer [hawl-duh n kef-er] /ˈhɔl dən ˈkɛf ər/ (Show IPA), 1903–83, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1967.
- hartnell — Sir Norman. 1901–79, English couturier
- hazelnut — the nut of the hazel; filbert.
- hazlenut — Misspelling of hazelnut.
- hazleton — a city in E Pennsylvania.
- hotelman — hotelkeeper.
- huntable — capable of being hunted
- immantle — to cover with a mantle
- inertial — inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- inflated — distended with air or gas; swollen.
- inflater — A pump used to inflate tires.
- inflates — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- innately — existing in one from birth; inborn; native: innate musical talent.
- insolate — to expose to the sun's rays; treat by exposure to the sun's rays.
- instable — not stable; unstable.
- insulate — to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound: to insulate an electric wire with a rubber sheath; to insulate a coat with down.
- intailed — Simple past tense and past participle of intail.
- intangle — Archaic form of entangle.
- integral — of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component: integral parts.
- intelsat — a global communications satellite network under international control.
- 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.
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- iolanthe — an operetta (1882) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- kalinite — a mineral, hydrous sulfate of potassium and aluminum, chemically similar to alum.
- kathleen — a female given name, form of Katherine.
- kelantan — a state in Malaysia, on the central Malay Peninsula. 5750 sq. mi. (14,893 sq. km). Capital: Kota Bharu.
- kelthane — a pesticide sprayed on agricultural and ornamental plants to eliminate mites
- l'enfant — ˈPierre Charles (ˈpjɛʀ ʃaʀl) ; pyer shȧrlˈ) 1754-1825; Fr. engineer & architect who served in the Am. Revolutionary army & drew up plans for Washington, D.C.
- 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
- lactogen — (biochemistry) A polypeptide placental hormone, part of the somatotropin family, with structure and function similar to those of growth hormone. It modifies the metabolic state of the mother during pregnancy to facilitate the energy supply of the fetus.
- lactones — Plural form of lactone.
- laitance — a milky deposit on the surface of new cement or concrete, usually caused by too much water.
- lamented — mourned for, as a person who is dead: Our late lamented friend.
- lamenter — One who laments.
- lamentin — Alternative form of lamantin.
- laminate — to separate or split into thin layers.
- lancelet — any of several small, lancet-shaped burrowing marine animals of the subphylum Cephalochordata, having a notochord and bearing structural similarities to both vertebrates and invertebrates.
- lancelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- lanceted — having lancet-headed openings.
- lanneret — the male lanner, which is smaller than the female.
- lanterns — Plural form of lantern.
- lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
- lastness — The quality of being or coming last; finality.
- lateener — a lateen-rigged ship
- lateness — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.