9-letter words containing j, a, e
- jayhawker — a native or inhabitant of Kansas (used as a nickname).
- jaywalked — Simple past tense and past participle of jaywalk.
- jaywalker — One who jaywalks; someone who has committed jaywalking.-->.
- jaz drive — (hardware, storage) Iomega Corporation's drive which takes removable one or two gigabyte disk cartridges which contain conventional hard disks. Internal and external drives are available claiming an average transfer rate of 330 megabytes per minute - though that is dependent on the SCSI adapter, the parallel port adapter is unlikely to reach anything like this speed. The Jaz drive was the successor to the company's more establistablished Zip Drive.
- jazz shoe — a man's plain, close-fitting, low-heeled oxford made of soft leather or other material and having a thin, flexible sole, worn for jazz dancing.
- 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
- jazzfests — Plural form of jazzfest.
- jazziness — The state, quality or property of being jazzy.
- jazzwomen — Plural form of jazzwoman.
- jealously — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- jean paul — Burton, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- jeannette — a city in W Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- jeevesian — of, relating to, or like the butler Jeeves, who was, in the fiction of P. G. Wodehouse, a master of tact, euphemism, and ingenuity
- jelly bag — a muslin bag used to strain off the juice from the fruit in making jelly (the preserve)
- jellybean — a small, bean-shaped, usually brightly colored candy with a hard sugar coating and a firm gelatinous filling.
- jeoparded — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopard.
- jeoparder — a person who puts in jeopardy
- jeremiads — Plural form of jeremiad.
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- jerkwater — Informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town.
- jeroboams — Plural form of jeroboam.
- jerry can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- jerseyman — a native or inhabitant of the island of Jersey.
- jerubbaal — Gideon (def 1).
- jerusalem — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- jessamine — a female given name, form of Jasmine.
- jesserant — a flexible coat of armour consisting of small metal plates sewn onto cloth
- jet black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
- jet plane — an airplane moved by jet propulsion.
- jet-black — deep-black: jet-black hair.
- jetavator — an extension of the exhaust nozzle of a rocket, for controlling the direction of the exhaust gases.
- jetlagged — a temporary disruption of the body's normal biological rhythms after high-speed air travel through several time zones.
- jetstream — Alternative spelling of jet stream.
- jettatura — a curse of the evil eye, whereby all that the cursed looks upon will suffer bad luck
- jib crane — a crane having an arm guyed at a fixed angle to the head of a rotating mast.
- jigamaree — a trick or manoeuvre
- jive talk — black American slang
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- jobstears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- joe blake — a snake
- johannine — of or relating to the apostle John or to the books in the New Testament attributed to him.
- jonnycake — Alternative spelling of johnnycake.
- jouisance — joy; delight
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- jubilated — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- jubilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jubilate.
- judgeable — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judicable — capable of being or liable to be judged or tried.