9-letter words containing j, a, d
- jazz band — a band specializing in jazz, and consisting typically of trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, piano, double bass, and percussion.
- jazzed up — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- jazzed-up — made more exciting and more modern
- jeoparded — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopard.
- jeoparder — a person who puts in jeopardy
- jeremiads — Plural form of jeremiad.
- jetlagged — a temporary disruption of the body's normal biological rhythms after high-speed air travel through several time zones.
- jharkhand — a state in NE India, created in 2000 from S Bihar. 28,833 sq. mi. (74,677 sq. km). Capital: Ranchi.
- jihadists — Plural form of jihadist.
- jim-dandy — of superior quality; excellent: a jim-dandy sports car.
- jordanian — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- jubilated — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- judaistic — an adherent or supporter of Judaism.
- judgeable — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judgmatic — judicious.
- judicable — capable of being or liable to be judged or tried.
- judicator — a person who acts as judge or sits in judgment.
- judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- jug-eared — having ears (jug ears) that stick out from the head resembling the way that a handle sticks out from a jug
- juicehead — a heavy drinker of alcoholic liquor.
- jumada ii — the sixth month of the Muslim year
- jump dial — a timepiece dial in which the numbers are seen through apertures.
- jump head — the headline printed over the continued portion of a story in a newspaper, magazine, etc., usually condensed from the main headline.
- jump lead — Jump leads are thick electrical leads that are used to connect a flat battery in a vehicle to an external charged battery, such as the battery of another vehicle, so that the first vehicle can be started.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- jusserand — Jean (Adrien Antoine) Jules [zhahn a-dree-ahn ahn-twan zhyl] /ʒɑ̃ a driˈɑ̃ ɑnˈtwan ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, French diplomat, historian, and essayist.
- jutlander — a peninsula comprising the continental portion of Denmark: naval battle between the British and German fleets was fought west of this peninsula 1916. 11,441 sq. mi. (29,630 sq. km).
- majordomo — The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.
- misadjust — to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate: to adjust expenses to income.
- mujahedin — Alt form mujahideen.
- mujahidin — Alternative form of mujahideen; Plural form of mujahid.
- n'djamena — Chadic.
- panjandra — pompous self-important officials of people of rank
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- re-adjust — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
- sand jack — any of a number of containers of sand driven beneath a hull about to be launched as a temporary support and then drained of sand so as to let the hull down onto the launching cradle.
- sjaelland — Zealand.
- soda jerk — a person who prepares and serves sodas and ice cream at a soda fountain.
- trad jazz — a kind of jazz based on the jazz that was played in the 1920s
- unabjured — not denied or renounced
- vojvodina — an autonomous province within Serbia. 8303 sq. mi. (21,506 sq. km). Capital: Novi Sad.
- wiradjuri — an Australian Aboriginal language, spoken over a wide area of central New South Wales.