12-letter words containing j, a
- d'anjou pear — Anjou pear
- daniel jones — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- dead-end job — a job that has no prospects and will mean that one does the same kind of (low-grade) work for ever
- denim jacket — a jacket made of a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton fabric
- dijudication — the act or process of dijudicating
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- duvet jacket — a down-filled jacket used esp by mountaineers
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- ejector seat — An ejector seat is a special seat which can throw the pilot out of a fast military aircraft in an emergency.
- enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
- field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
- fort jackson — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in N central South Carolina, NE of Columbia.
- fujita scale — a scale for expressing the intensity of a tornado, ranging from F0 (light damage) to F5 (incredible damage)
- gao xingjian — born 1940, French novelist and playwright, born in China: Nobel Prize 2000.
- gap junction — a linkage of two adjacent cells consisting of a system of channels extending across a gap from one cell to the other, allowing the passage of ions and small molecules.
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- gjallar-horn — Heimdall's horn, used to warn the gods of Ragnarok.
- gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- haji-ioannou — Sir Stelios. born 1967, British businessman, born in Greece; founder (1995) and chairman (until 2002) of the low-cost airline company Easyjet
- hammarskjold — Dag Hjalmar [dahg yahl-mahr] /dɑg ˈyɑl mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1905–61, Swedish statesman: Secretary General of the United Nations 1953–61; Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
- heilongjiang — a province in NE China, S of the Amur River. 108,880 sq. mi. (281,999 sq. km). Capital: Harbin.
- hojatoleslam — a title of respect given to an ayatollah or a middle-ranking Shiite cleric, which means literally 'proof of Islam'
- injudicially — in an unlawful manner
- interjacency — The quality of being interjacent.
- jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
- jack-a-dandy — dandy (def 1).
- jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
- jackarooesse — (Australia, obsolete, rare) A female jackaroo.
- jackass bark — a barkentine square-rigged on the mainmast above a gaff mainsail.
- jackass brig — a two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast with a fore-and-aft mainsail; brigantine.
- jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- jacobinizing — Present participle of jacobinize.
- jactitations — Plural form of jactitation.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jaffa orange — a sweet, almost seedless variety of orange grown principally in Israel.
- jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
- jamal ud-din — (Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani) 1838–97, Muslim educator and political leader, born in Persia: founder of modern Pan-Islamism.
- james dickey — James, 1923–97, U.S. poet and novelist.
- james edward — Stuart, James Francis Edward.
- james harper — James, 1795–1869, and his brothers John, 1797–1875, (Joseph) Wesley, 1801–70, and Fletcher, 1806–77, U.S. printers and publishers.
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- james k polk — James Knox, 1795–1849, the 11th president of the U.S. 1845–49.
- jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
- jan gossaert — Jan [Flemish yahn] /Flemish yɑn/ (Show IPA), (Jan Gossaert or Gossart) 1478?–1533? Flemish painter.
- jane goodall — Jane, born 1934, English primatologist and zoologist.
- japan clover — a drought-resistant bush clover, Lespedeza striata, of the legume family, introduced to the southern Atlantic states from Asia, having numerous tiny trifoliate leaves valued for pasturage and hay.
- japanese ivy — Boston ivy
- japanese yew — a yew, Taxus cuspidata, of Japan, grown as an ornamental.