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12-letter words containing j, a, e

  • puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
  • rabbet joint — a joint between rabbeted parts.
  • ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.
  • reaching jib — genoa.
  • readjudicate — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • readjustment — an act of readjusting or the state of being readjusted.
  • rejectamenta — things that have been thrown away as worthless
  • rejuvenating — making young again
  • rejuvenation — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
  • rejuvenative — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
  • res judicata — a thing adjudicated; a case that has been decided.
  • rijksdaalder — a cupronickel or silver coin of the Netherlands, equal to 2½ guilders.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
  • saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
  • saint joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
  • sea of japan — the sea between mainland Asia and Japan
  • sejant-erect — (of an animal) represented as seated upright with forelegs raised: a lion sejant-erect.
  • shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • special jury — struck jury.
  • sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
  • square-jawed — having a regular, approximately rectangular jaw
  • star jasmine — a shrubby, evergreen vine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, of the dogbane family, native to China, having small clusters of fragrant, white flowers, often cultivated as an ornamental.
  • steam jacket — a casing, as on the cylinder of a steam engine, filled with live steam to keep the interior hot.
  • straitjacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
  • subjectional — the act of subjecting.
  • teaching job — a position as a teacher
  • the jazz age — (esp in the US) the period between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression during which jazz became popular
  • the jurassic — the Jurassic period or rock system
  • the saltsjön — an inlet of the Baltic Sea in Sweden
  • the-bell-jar — a novel (1963) by Sylvia Plath.
  • tomato juice — liquid from a tomato
  • trojan horse — Classical Mythology. a gigantic hollow wooden horse, left by the Greeks upon their pretended abandonment of the siege of Troy. The Trojans took it into Troy and Greek soldiers concealed in the horse opened the gates to the Greek army at night and conquered the city.
  • trojan women — a tragedy (415 b.c.) by Euripides.
  • unadjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
  • unconjugated — 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.”.
  • unjudgmental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
  • unrejectable — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • vuelta abajo — a region in W Cuba.
  • water jacket — a water-filled envelope or container surrounding a machine, engine, or part for cooling purposes, esp the casing around the cylinder block of a pump or internal-combustion engine
  • water-jacket — to surround or fit with a water jacket.
  • waxed jacket — a waterproof jacket made of waxed material
  • whiskey jack — gray jay.
  • yellowjacket — (chiefly, US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.
  • your-majesty — regal, lofty, or stately dignity; imposing character; grandeur: majesty of bearing; the majesty of Chartres.
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