9-letter words containing j, a
- 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
- jharkhand — a state in NE India, created in 2000 from S Bihar. 28,833 sq. mi. (74,677 sq. km). Capital: Ranchi.
- jiangling — a city in S Hubei province, in central China, on the Chang Jiang.
- jib crane — a crane having an arm guyed at a fixed angle to the head of a rotating mast.
- jicarilla — a member of a group of North American Indians who once inhabited primarily northern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado and are situated in northwestern New Mexico.
- jiffy bag — a thickly padded but light envelope in which articles such as books are placed for protection in the post
- jigamaree — a trick or manoeuvre
- jigsawing — Present participle of jigsaw.
- jihadists — Plural form of jihadist.
- jillaroos — Plural form of jillaroo.
- jillstrap — (informal) A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
- jim clark — Dr. James H. Clark
- jim-dandy — of superior quality; excellent: a jim-dandy sports car.
- jinriksha — A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
- 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.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- jocularly — given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious: jocular remarks about opera stars.
- joculator — (obsolete) A jester; a joker.
- joe blake — a snake
- johannine — of or relating to the apostle John or to the books in the New Testament attributed to him.
- john paul — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- johnboats — Plural form of johnboat.
- joint bar — one of a pair of bars used to join two rails longitudinally.