8-letter words containing ical
- rubrical — reddish; marked with red.
- rustical — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- scenical — of or relating to natural scenery.
- septical — septic
- silvical — relating to silvics
- statical — pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition.
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- syndical — of or relating to a union of persons engaged in a particular trade.
- tactical — of or relating to tactics, especially military or naval tactics.
- thetical — positive; dogmatic.
- tragical — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
- tritical — trite or hackneyed
- tropical — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- turrical — of, relating to, or resembling a turret.
- vertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- viatical — of or relating to a viaticum.
- visicalc — (application, tool, business, history) /vi'zi-calk/ The first spreadsheet program, conceived in 1978 by Dan Bricklin, while he was an MBA student at Harvard Business School. Inspired by a demonstration given by Douglas Engelbart of a point-and-click user interface, Bricklin set out to design an application that would combine the intuitiveness of pencil and paper calculations with the power of a programmable pocket calculator. Bricklin's design was based on the (paper) financial spreadsheet, a kind of document already used in business planning. (Some of Bricklin's notes for VisiCalc were scribbled on the back of a spreadsheet pad.) VisiCalc was probably not the first application to use a spreadsheet model, but it did have a number of original features, all of which continue to be fundamental to spreadsheet software. These include point-and-type editing, range replication and formulas that update automatically with changes to other cells. VisiCalc is widely credited with creating the sudden demand for desktop computers that helped fuel the microcomputer boom of the early 1980s. Thousands of business people with little or no technical expertise found that they could use VisiCalc to create sophisticated financial programs. This makes VisiCalc one of the first killer apps.
- vortical — of or relating to a vortex.