14-letter words containing j, a
- adjunctiveness — The state or quality of being adjunctive.
- adjutant stork — a large Indian stork, Leptoptilus dubius, having a pinkish-brown neck and bill, a large naked pouch under the throat, and a military gait.
- andrew jackson — Andrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
- andrew johnson — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
- andrew project — (project) A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at Carnegie Mellon University, named after Andrew Carnegie, an American philanthropist who provided money to establish CMU. See also Andrew File System, Andrew Message System, Andrew Toolkit, class.
- apothecary jar — a small, covered jar, formerly used by druggists to hold pharmaceuticals, now chiefly in household use to hold spices, candies, cosmetics, etc., and sometimes decorated, as a lamp base or flower vase.
- arc-jet engine — a type of rocket engine using propellant gas heated by an electric arc.
- asphalt jungle — an expression used to refer to a city environment, which emphasizes its dangerous nature
- assault jacket — a protective jacketlike garment, armored so as to resist bullets, knives, etc., worn especially by police officers for defense against attack.
- barbour jacket — a hard-wearing waterproof waxed jacket
- baroja y nessi — Pío [pee-oh;; Spanish pee-aw] /ˈpi oʊ;; Spanish ˈpi ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1872–1956, Spanish novelist.
- black skipjack — a small spotted tuna, Euthynnus yaito, of Indo-Pacific seas
- bob-a-job week — a week during which boy scouts and cubs formerly raised money for their organizations by doing jobs
- chinook jargon — a pidgin language containing elements of Native American languages, English, and French: formerly used among fur traders and Indians on the NW coast of North America
- clean and jerk — a lift in which a barbell is raised from the floor to shoulder height where it is brought to rest and then, with a lunging movement by the lifter, is thrust overhead so the arms extend straight in the air, being held in this position for a short, specified length of time.
- clean-and-jerk — a lift in weightlifting in which the weight is held momentarily at shoulder height before being thrust overhead
- cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
- conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
- crimen injuria — an action that injures the dignity of another person, esp use of racially offensive language
- darby and joan — an ideal elderly married couple living in domestic harmony
- dovetail joint — A dovetail or a dovetail joint is a joint used for fitting two pieces of wood tightly together.
- drum majorette — a girl or woman who leads a marching band or drum corps.
- eau de javelle — Javel water.
- every man jack — everyone without exception
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- flotsam-jetsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
- foliated joint — a joint between the rabbeted and overlapping edges of two boards, forming a continuous surface on each side.
- gosling, james — James Gosling
- grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
- hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
- half-lap joint — a joint between two timbers halved together so that a flush surface results.
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- henry j kaiser — Henry J(ohn) 1882–1967, U.S. industrialist.
- ijsselmeer dam — a dam in the NW Netherlands
- interjectional — Being or pertaining to an interjection.
- it's just that — You use the expression it's just that when you are making a complaint, suggestion, or excuse, so that the person you are talking to will not get annoyed with you.
- j/psi particle — the lightest of the psi particles, the first particle to be discovered that contains a charmed quark.
- jack crosstree — jack1 (def 9b).
- jack-in-office — a self-important petty official
- jackass gunter — a gunter having a wire rope with a traveler in place of the usual upper iron.
- jacking engine — an engine for moving an idle reciprocating engine or turbine to permit inspection and repairs.
- jackknife clam — any bivalve mollusk of the family Solenidae, especially of the genus Ensis, having a long, rectangular, slightly curved shell.
- jackknife-fish — a black and white, American drum, Equetus lanceolatus, found in tropical areas of the Atlantic Ocean, having an elongated dorsal fin that is held erect.
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- jacob's ladder — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. caeruleum (or P. van-bruntiae), having blue, cup-shaped flowers and paired leaflets in a ladderlike arrangement.
- jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
- jacques necker — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1732–1804, French statesman, born in Switzerland.
- jamaica ginger — an alcoholic extract of ginger used as a flavoring.
- james breasted — James Henry, 1865–1935, U.S. archaeologist and historian of ancient Egypt.
- james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
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