8-letter words containing t, c, e, l
- leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
- leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
- letching — a lecherous desire or craving.
- lettuces — Plural form of lettuce.
- leukotic — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- 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.
- limnetic — pertaining to or living in the open water of a freshwater pond or lake.
- 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!
- lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- line cut — an engraving consisting only of lines or areas that are solid black or white. Compare halftone (def 2).
- lipocyte — fat cell.
- listicle — a published article structured in the form of a list, typically having some additional content relating to each item: “The Best Cities for Singles” and other featured listicles.
- literacy — the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.
- lithemic — relating to an excessive or uric acid in the blood
- localite — one who lives in a particular locality.
- locatect — an architect whose buildings are designed to use local materials and labour and which are sensitive to the needs of the local environment and community
- locative — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”.
- lockstep — a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
- locomote — to move about, especially under one's own power.
- loculate — having one or more locules.
- loricate — covered with a lorica.
- low tech — low-technology.
- low-tech — low-technology.
- luckiest — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- 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.
- luculent — clear or lucid: a luculent explanation.
- lutecium — a trivalent rare-earth element. Symbol: Lu; atomic weight: 174.97; atomic number: 71.
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- maculate — spotted; stained.
- malecite — a member of a North American Indian people of southern and western New Brunswick and northern Maine.
- maledict — accursed.
- melchite — a Christian in Egypt and Syria who accepted the definition of faith adopted by the Council of Chalcedon in a.d. 451.
- mellitic — (of an acid) obtained from mellite
- mesolect — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- metallic — of, relating to, or consisting of metal.
- methylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the methyl group.
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- michelet — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1798–1874, French historian.
- milicent — a female given name.
- mitchell — Arthur, born 1934, U.S. ballet dancer, choreographer, and ballet company director.
- molecast — the heap of earth excavated by a mole tunnelling underground
- muculent — Slimy; moist and moderately viscous.
- muscatel — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- necklets — Plural form of necklet.
- neglects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of neglect.
- nocently — in a nocent manner; harmfully
- noctules — Plural form of noctule.
- noetical — Alternative form of noetic.
- nonelect — a person or group of people that is not chosen or elected, esp for salvation