12-letter words containing i, n, j
- joint return — a U.S. income-tax return reporting the combined income of a married couple.
- joint runner — (in plumbing) incombustible materials for packing a joint to be caulked with lead.
- joint tenant — one of two or more persons who hold property in joint tenancy.
- joking apart — seriously: said to recall a discussion to seriousness after there has been joking
- jordan river — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- journey time — the time taken to make a journey
- juan hidalgo — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
- juggling act — If you say that a situation is a juggling act, you mean that someone is trying to do two or more things at once, and that they are finding it difficult to do those things properly.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- jumping gene — transposon.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- jumpstations — Plural form of jumpstation.
- junction box — an enclosure that houses electric wires or cables that are joined together and protects the connections.
- junction fet — Junction Field Effect Transistor
- jungle juice — moonshine: home-made alcohol
- junior class — the penultimate class in high school or college
- junior clerk — a clerk of low rank
- junk science — faulty scientific information or research, especially when used to advance special interests.
- jurisconsult — Roman and Civil Law. a person authorized to give legal advice.
- jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- jury-packing — the practice of contriving that the majority of those chosen for a jury will be persons likely to have partialities affecting a particular case.
- jury-rigging — the act of setting something up in a makeshift manner, usually as a result of the loss of regular gear
- just in case — if it should happen that
- just in time — Business. noting or pertaining to a method of inventory control that keeps inventories low by scheduling needed goods and equipment to arrive a short time before a production run begins. Abbreviation: JIT.
- just-in-time — dynamic translation
- justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- justinian ii — 669–711 ad, Byzantine emperor (685–95, 705–11). Banished (695) after a revolt against his oppressive rule, he regained the throne with the help of the Bulgars. He was killed in a second revolt
- justinianian — of or relating to Justinian I or the Byzantine dynasty (a.d. 518–610) named after him.
- juvenilizing — Present participle of juvenilize.
- kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
- kinchinjunga — Kanchenjunga.
- lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
- majesticness — The quality of being majestic.
- majoritarian — of, relating to, or constituting a majority: majoritarian democracy.
- mexican jade — Mexican onyx artificially colored green.
- misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- misjudgement — Alternative form of misjudgment.
- misjudgments — Plural form of misjudgment.
- nailer joist — a steel joist having a permanently attached nailing strip, as for securing wooden flooring.
- nonobjective — not objective.
- objecteering — (programming, tool) An object-oriented design tool from Softeam, based on the Class Relation Methodology, with C++ code generation.
- objectifying — Present participle of objectify.
- ojo caliente — a hot spring.
- onion johnny — a Breton farmer that sells onions door-to-door in the United Kingdom