8-letter words containing cal
- eucalypt — Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
- farcical — pertaining to or of the nature of farce.
- fecaloid — like or resembling feces.
- firecall — A call of fire alarm to a fire station.
- fiscally — of or relating to the public treasury or revenues: fiscal policies.
- focalize — Focus (something), in particular.
- fornical — any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.
- gnomical — Gnomic.
- gymnical — Alternative form of gymnic.
- hallucal — of or relating to the hallux.
- haptical — of or relating to the sense of touch: the haptic sensation of holding a real book in your hands.
- heliacal — pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
- iatrical — of or relating to a physician or medicine; medical.
- iconical — Pertaining to or consisting of images or icons.
- inimical — adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health.
- 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.
- irenical — Peaceful, conciliatory; promoting peace, especially over theological or ecclesiastical disputes.
- ironical — pertaining to, of the nature of, exhibiting, or characterized by irony or mockery: an ironical compliment; an ironical smile.
- la scala — the chief opera house in Italy, in Milan (opened 1776)
- laically — As a layman.
- localise — (transitive) alternative spelling of localize.
- localism — a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
- 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.
- localize — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- lubrical — Obsolete form of lubric.
- macallum — an ice cream with raspberry sauce
- maniacal — of or relating to mania or a maniac.
- mcaleese — Mary (Patricia). born 1951, Irish politician; president of Ireland (1997–2011)
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- mexicali — a city in and the capital of Baja California, in NW Mexico, on the Mexican-U.S. border.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- miscalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miscall.
- montcalm — Louis Joseph [lwee zhaw-zef] /lwi ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1712–59, French general in Canada.
- mooncalf — a congenitally grossly deformed and mentally defective person.
- mosaical — of or relating to Moses or the writings, laws, and principles attributed to him: Mosaic ethics.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- musicals — Plural form of musical.
- mystical — mystic; of or relating to supernatural agencies, affairs, occurrences, etc.: a strange, mystical experience.
- mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- nautical — of or relating to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
- neolocal — living or located away from both the husband's and the wife's relatives: a neolocal family.
- noetical — Alternative form of noetic.
- nonfocal — Not focal.
- nonlocal — pertaining to or characterized by place or position in space; spatial.
- nonvocal — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.