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13-letter words containing a, j, r

  • jerry sussman — Gerald Sussman
  • jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
  • jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • jibber-jabber — foolish or worthless talk; nonsense
  • jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
  • johann herder — Johann Gottfried von [yoh-hahn gawt-freet fuh n] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈgɔt frit fən/ (Show IPA), 1744–1803, German philosopher and poet.
  • john marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
  • john mccarthy — (person, artificial intelligence)   A pioneer of artificial intelligence (he coined ther term). He invented Lisp at MIT in the late 1950s and later worked at SAIL. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • john o'groats — the northern tip of Scotland, near Duncansby Head, NE Caithness, traditionally thought of as the northernmost point of Britain: from Land's End to John o'Groat's House.
  • johnny collar — a small, pointed collar on a shirt, dress bodice, or the like, with close-fitting neckline.
  • johnson grass — a sorghum, Sorghum halepense, that spreads by creeping rhizomes, grown for fodder.
  • johore strait — a narrow strait between Malaya and Singapore Island
  • joint manager — sb who shares authority and responsibility for sth
  • joint partner — a person who shares the ownership of a firm or business equally with another or others
  • jointer plane — a plane for truing the edges of boards, planing large surfaces, etc.
  • jordan almond — a large, hard-shelled, Spanish almond used especially in confectionery.
  • jordan engine — a machine for beating and refining pulp, used in manufacturing certain grades of paper.
  • joseph crater — Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
  • journal entry — sth written in a diary
  • juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
  • julius caesar — Gaius Julius Caesar.
  • jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
  • junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
  • junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
  • junior rating — a military rank for non-officer personnel in the navy
  • justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
  • justin martyr — Saint, a.d. c100–163? early church historian and philosopher.
  • katzenjammers — Plural form of katzenjammer.
  • lantern-jawed — having a lantern jaw.
  • leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
  • loss adjuster — A loss adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money should be paid to a person making a claim.
  • lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • major barbara — a comedy (1905) by G. B. Shaw.
  • major element — any chemical found in great quantity in the rocks of the earth's crust. Compare minor element (def 1).
  • major general — a military officer ranking next below a lieutenant general and next above a brigadier general.
  • major leaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
  • major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
  • major penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player for five minutes from play, no substitute for the player being permitted.
  • major premise — Logic. an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.
  • major prophet — any of a group of Old Testament prophets, including Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.
  • major release — (programming)   A release of a piece of software which is not merely a revision or a bug fix release but which contains substantial changes (e.g., an overhaul of the interface, change in compatibility). Traditionally, major releases are numbered as X.0; for example, WordPerfect 6.0 is a major release, significantly different from any previous version; whereas WordPerfect 6.1 has only minor changes, and is, thus, only a revision. See also major delivery.
  • major-leaguer — a member of a major-league team.
  • majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
  • mangrove jack — a predatory food and game fish, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, of Australian rivers and tidal creeks dominated by mangroves
  • measuring jug — a graduated jug used in cooking to measure ingredients
  • mineral jelly — a gelatinous product made from petroleum, used to stabilize certain explosives.
  • mojave desert — a desert in S California: part of the Great Basin. About 15,000 sq. mi. (38,850 sq. km).
  • monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
  • new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
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