7-letter words containing j, a
- eijkman — Christiaan (ˈkriːstiːˌaːn). 1858–1930, Dutch physician, who discovered that beriberi is caused by nutritional deficiency: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1929
- fajardo — a city in NE Puerto Rico.
- fajitas — a thin strip of marinated and grilled meat.
- fanjets — Plural form of fanjet.
- feijoas — Plural form of feijoa.
- flu jab — an inoculation against influenza
- foujita — Tsugouharu [tsoo-goo-hah-roo] /ˈtsu gʊˈhɑ rʊ/ (Show IPA), 1886–1968, Japanese painter in France.
- gas jet — gas burner (def 1).
- granjon — a style of type originally cut by the French designer Robert Granjon.
- guajira — a Cuban peasant dance with shifting rhythms.
- gujarat — a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
- halabja — a Kurdish town in NE Iraq; in March 1998 Iraqi forces used poison gas on the population, killing hundreds of civilians. Pop: estimates vary between 45 000 and 80 000
- handjar — a knife or dagger from Persia or Turkey
- handjob — Alternative spelling of hand job.
- harijan — untouchable (def 5).
- hejiang — a former province in Manchuria, in NE China.
- hijacks — Plural form of hijack.
- hotjava — (web) A modular, extensible web browser from Sun Microsystems that can execute programs written in the Java programming language. These programs, known as "applets", can be included (like images) in HTML pages. Because Java programs are compiled into machine independent bytecodes, applets can run on any platform on which HotJava runs - currently (December 1995) SPARC/Solaris 2 and Intel 80x86/Windows 95, Windows NT.
- ice jam — an obstruction of broken river ice in a narrow part of a channel.
- ijtihad — (in Islamic law) the use of reason to arrive at a knowledge of truth in religious matters.
- injuria — (legal) injury; invasion of another's rights.
- jabbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jabber.
- jabbing — a poke with the end or point of something; a sharp, quick thrust.
- jabirus — Plural form of jabiru.
- jabroni — (professional wrestling slang) a performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
- jacalyn — a female given name.
- jacamar — any tropical American bird of the family Galbulidae, having a long bill and usually metallic green plumage above.
- jacanas — Plural form of jacana.
- jacarei — a city in SE Brazil, in São Paulo state.
- jacarta — a seaport in and the capital of Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java.
- jacchus — a marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, that is native to South America
- jacinth — a female given name, form of Hyacinth.
- jack in — abandon, quit
- jack of — tired or fed up with (something)
- jack up — an increase or rise: a recent jack-up in prices.
- jack-up — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jackall — Archaic form of jackal.
- jackals — Plural form of jackal.
- jackass — a male donkey.
- jackdaw — a glossy, black, European bird, Corvus monedula, of the crow family, that nests in towers, ruins, etc.
- jackeen — a slick self-assertive lower-class Dubliner
- jackers — Plural form of jacker.
- jackets — Plural form of jacket.
- jacking — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jackleg — unskilled or untrained for one's work; amateur: a jackleg electrician.
- jacklin — Tony, full name Anthony Jacklin. born 1944, English golfer: won the British Open Championship (1969) and the US Open Championship (1970)
- jackman — (motor racing) A member of the pit crew responsible for lifting the car with a jack.
- jackpot — the chief prize or the cumulative stakes in a game or contest, as in bingo, a quiz contest, or a slot machine.
- jacksie — (slang, UK) alternative spelling of jacksy.
- jackson — a state in the S United States. 47,716 sq. mi. (123,585 sq. km). Capital: Jackson. Abbreviation: MS (for use with zip code), Miss.