11-letter words containing j, e, n
- join forces — unite for a common purpose
- joined case — a trial combining multiple related claims, etc
- joiner door — Shipbuilding. a door of wood or light metal set in a nonwatertight bulkhead.
- joining fee — a sum of money that you pay in order to become a member of a club, organization, etc, or in order to start receiving a service, such as a phone line
- joint issue — one of two or more stamps that are issued jointly by two governments to commemorate an event of common historical interest.
- jointedness — The state or condition of being jointed.
- jointresses — Plural form of jointress.
- josephinite — a mineral alloy of nickel and iron
- joukahainen — a Lapp magician who tried to kill Väinämöinen.
- journalized — Simple past tense and past participle of journalize.
- journalizer — One who records events in a journal.
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- joylessness — The state or condition of being joyless; lack of joy; unjoy.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- judge lynch — the personification of lynch law.
- judgemental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- juggernauts — Plural form of juggernaut.
- jungle cock — the male of the jungle fowl.
- jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
- juniper oil — an oil obtained from the berries or wood of the common juniper, Juniperus communis.
- juniper tar — a medicinal tar derived from the European juniper Juniperus oxycedrus: used topically in the treatment of certain skin diseases.
- junk dealer — a person who buys and sells discarded or secondhand objects
- junk mailer — an organization that sends junk mail in bulk, especially to solicit business or charitable contributions.
- junk market — the market for junk bonds
- juramentado — (formerly) a Muslim, especially a Moro, bound by an oath to be killed fighting against Christians and other infidels.
- jure divino — by divine law.
- jure humano — by human law.
- jus gentium — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
- jus naturae — law of nature; natural law
- juvenescent — being or becoming youthful; young.
- lantern jaw — a distinctly protruding, often wide lower jaw.
- lemon juice — citrus juice from lemons
- little john — a large, powerful yeoman who was a member of Robin Hood's band.
- long jumper — an athlete who does the long jump
- majoretting — the practice of performing as majorettes
- microinject — to inject into a single cell or cell part.
- misjoinders — Plural form of misjoinder.
- misjudgment — An act of misjudging, a mistake in judgment.
- miter joint — a joint, especially a butt joint, between two pieces of wood or the like, meeting at an angle in which each of the butting surfaces is cut to an angle equal to half the angle of junction.
- mitre joint — a corner joint formed between two pieces of material, esp wood, by cutting bevels of equal angles at the ends of each piece
- modern jazz — any of various styles of jazz that have evolved since the early 1940s and are marked generally by harmonic and rhythmic complexity, emphasis on chord progressions rather than melody, a tendency to draw on classical forms and styles, and eclectic, allusive melodic tags in improvisation. Also called progressive jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop.
- motion jpeg — Moving JPEG
- moving jpeg — (graphics, compression) (M-JPEG) A compression technique for moving images which applies JPEG still image compression to each frame of a moving picture sequence. Play-back requires a machine capable of decompressing and displaying each JPEG image quickly enough to sustain the required frame rate of the picture sequence. There is no standard for Moving JPEG as with JPEG, but there are JPEG compression chips (for example see Zoran) which are designed to work at television frame rates and resolutions. See also MPEG and MPEG2.
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- neoadjuvant — (medicine) Describing an adjuvant preparation given before a course of treatment.
- nonadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- object lens — objective (def 3).
- objectional — Objectionable.
- on the jump — in a hurry
- orjonikidze — Ordzhonikidze (def 1).