8-letter words containing j, c
- jack tar — a sailor.
- jack-off — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jack-tar — a sailor.
- jackaroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
- jackatar — a Newfoundland native of mixed French and Amerindian descent.
- jackboot — a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- jackdaws — Plural form of jackdaw.
- jackelyn — a female given name.
- jackeroo — an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
- jacketed — Encased or enclosed inside a jacket.
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- jacklegs — Plural form of jackleg.
- jackling — the winning of the ball, by the defender's team, after a tackle and before a ruck has formed
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- jackroll — to force (a woman) to submit to sexual intercourse with a number of young men at the same time
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- jackstay — a rod or batten, following a yard, gaff, or boom, to which one edge of a sail is bent.
- jackyard — a small, inclined spar upholding the head of a quadrangular gaff topsail similar in form to a lugsail.
- jacobean — of or relating to James I of England or to his period.
- jacobian — Alternative capitalization of Jacobian.
- jacobina — a female given name.
- jacobins — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jacobite — a partisan or adherent of James II of England after his overthrow (1688), or of the Stuarts.
- jacobsen — Jens Peter [yens pey-tuh r] /yɛns ˈpeɪ tər/ (Show IPA), 1847–85, Danish novelist.
- jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- jaculate — to throw or hurl (a dart, javelin, etc.).
- jacuzzis — Plural form of jacuzzi.
- jafaican — a dialect of English spoken in London, with marked Jamaican influences
- jam-pack — to fill or pack as tightly or fully as possible: We jam-packed the basket with all kinds of fruit.
- jamaican — of or relating to the island of Jamaica or its inhabitants.
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- japonica — the camellia, Camellia japonica, having waxy flowers in a variety of colors.
- jararaca — A species of venomous snake found in South America, Bothrops jararaca.
- jaundice — Also called icterus. Pathology. yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis. Compare physiologic jaundice.
- jellicoe — John Rushworth [ruhsh-wurth] /ˈrʌʃ wɜrθ/ (Show IPA), 1st Earl, 1859–1935, British admiral.
- jerkface — (slang, vulgar, pejorative) An obnoxious or unlikeable person; a jerk.
- jerrican — Alternative spelling of jerrycan.
- jerrycan — A large, flat -sided metal container for storing or transporting liquids, typically gasoline or water.
- jesuitic — of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- jickajog — a jogging or rolling motion
- jig back — an inclined cable tramway with two cars that are connected in such a way that as one goes up the other comes down.
- jim crow — racial segregation
- jim-crow — favoring or supporting Jim Crow.
- job case — any of various cases for holding type, especially one of several that accommodate both uppercase and lowercase letters. Compare California job case, case2 (def 8).
- jochebed — the mother of Aaron and Moses. Ex. 6:20.
- jockette — a female jockey
- jockeyed — Simple past tense and past participle of jockey.
- jocosely — given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful: a jocose and amusing manner.
- jocosity — the state or quality of being jocose.