8-letter words containing t, c, e, l
- fulcrate — having or supported by fulcra
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- gentilic — Tribal or national.
- glaciate — to cover with ice or glaciers.
- glitched — a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
- glitches — A sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment.
- hatchels — Plural form of hatchel.
- hecticly — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- hectorly — in the manner of a hector
- helicity — Helical character, especially of DNA.
- helicopt — to fly or transport using a helicopter
- hellicat — an evil creature
- helvetic — a Swiss Protestant; Zwinglian.
- hot cell — a protected enclosure, usually made of concrete, containing shielded windows and manipulators operated by remote control, used to handle radioactive materials, as for processing, testing, etc.
- idiolect — The speech habits peculiar to a particular person.
- inflects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inflect.
- 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.
- jaculate — to throw or hurl (a dart, javelin, etc.).
- klatches — Plural form of klatch.
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- la-chute — French La Chute. a novel (1957) by Albert Camus.
- lacerant — painfully distressing; harrowing
- lacerate — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- lactated — Simple past tense and past participle of lactate.
- lactates — Plural form of lactate.
- lacteals — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling milk; milky.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- 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.
- 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.
- latchkey — a key for releasing a latch or springlock, especially on an outer door.
- latticed — having a lattice or latticework.
- lattices — Plural form of lattice.
- leachate — a solution resulting from leaching, as of soluble constituents from soil, landfill, etc., by downward percolating ground water: Leachates in the town's water supply have been traced to a chemical-waste dump.
- lecithal — having a yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- lecithin — Biochemistry. any of a group of phospholipids, occurring in animal and plant tissues and egg yolk, composed of units of choline, phosphoric acid, fatty acids, and glycerol.
- lecterns — Plural form of lectern.
- lections — Plural form of lection.
- lectress — a female reader
- lectured — a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's paintings.
- lecturer — a person who lectures.
- lectures — Plural form of lecture.
- lecythis — any very tall tree of the genus Lecythis
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- lenticel — a body of cells formed on the periderm of a stem, appearing on the surface of the plant as a lens-shaped spot, and serving as a pore.
- lenticle — a window in a clock case revealing the motion of the pendulum bob.