11-letter words containing a, c, j, o
- justaucorps — a fitted, knee-length coat, characterized by wide turned-back cuffs and stiff flared skirts, worn especially by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- major piece — a queen or rook.
- major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
- megaproject — A very large public investment project, especially one costing more than one billion US dollars.
- nonadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- nonjudicial — Not resulting from a court ruling or judgment.
- object ball — the first ball struck by the cue ball in making a carom. Compare carom ball.
- objectional — Objectionable.
- project mac — (project) A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
- projectable — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- san jacinto — a river in E Texas, flowing SE to Galveston Bay: Texans defeated Mexicans near the mouth of this river 1836.
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- tobacco jar — a container formerly used for storing tobacco and keeping it fresh
- trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
- yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.