11-letter words containing j, a
- quart major — Piquet. a sequence of four cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, and jack (quart major) or king, queen, jack, and ten (quart minor)
- quint major — an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.
- rajahmundry — a city in Andhra Pradesh state, SE India, on the Godavari River.
- rajya sabha — the upper house of parliament in India.
- rap jumping — the sport of descending high buildings, attached to ropes and a pulley
- readjourned — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- red jasmine — a fragrant shrub with fragrant flowers, also known as frangipani
- rejoneadora — a female bullfighter who rides horseback during a fight and spears the bull with lances
- rejuvenated — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- rejuvenator — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- royal jelly — a viscous substance secreted from the pharyngeal glands of worker honeybees, fed to all larvae during their first few days and afterward only to those larvae selected to be queens.
- san jacinto — a river in E Texas, flowing SE to Galveston Bay: Texans defeated Mexicans near the mouth of this river 1836.
- san joaquin — a river in California, flowing NW from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Sacramento River. 350 miles (560 km) long.
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- shirtjacket — a jacket styled like a shirt
- slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
- snake juice — any strong alcoholic drink, esp when home-made
- steeplejack — a person who climbs steeples, towers, or the like, to build or repair them.
- stirrup jar — pseudamphora.
- subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- subjectable — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjudicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
- take a joke — have a sense of humour
- tear-jerker — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
- tearjerking — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
- the javelin — the event or sport of throwing the javelin
- thingamajig — a gadget or other thing for which the speaker does not know or has forgotten the name.
- tobacco jar — a container formerly used for storing tobacco and keeping it fresh
- traffic jam — jam1 (def 16).
- transjordan — an area east of the Jordan River, in SW Asia: a British mandate (1921–23); an emirate (1923–49); now the major part of the kingdom of Jordan.
- trial judge — the judge in a trial
- trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
- unenjoyable — giving or capable of giving joy or pleasure: a very enjoyable film.
- unjaundiced — devoid of distorted or prejudiced views.
- unjudgeable — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
- west jordan — a town in N central Utah.
- whiskeyjack — (US) Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
- william joy — (person) (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was also one of the people at the University of California at Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. He also wrote a book on Unix. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is still (1997) Vice-President of Research. Among his many projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File System and the SPARC architechture. See also dinosaur.
- windjammers — Plural form of windjammer.
- windjamming — Excessive talking; loquaciousness.
- xiang jiang — a river in S China, flowing N to Lake Dongting. 715 miles (1150 km) long.
- ye jianying — 1898–1986, Chinese marshal and Communist leader: defense minister 1971–78.
- yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.
- zhangjiakou — a city in NW Hebei province, in NE China: capital of the former Qahar province.