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12-letter words containing j, e, n

  • jumping gene — transposon.
  • jumping hare — springhare.
  • junction fet — Junction Field Effect Transistor
  • jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
  • jungle bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
  • jungle fever — a severe variety of malarial fever occurring in the East Indies and the tropics.
  • jungle juice — moonshine: home-made alcohol
  • jungle-bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
  • junior clerk — a clerk of low rank
  • junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
  • junk science — faulty scientific information or research, especially when used to advance special interests.
  • jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
  • jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
  • jus naturale — 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)
  • just in case — if it should happen that
  • just in time — Business. noting or pertaining to a method of inventory control that keeps inventories low by scheduling needed goods and equipment to arrive a short time before a production run begins. Abbreviation: JIT.
  • just-in-time — dynamic translation
  • juvenescence — being or becoming youthful; young.
  • juvenilizing — Present participle of juvenilize.
  • juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
  • kanchenjunga — a mountain in S Asia, between NE India and Nepal, in the E Himalayas: third highest in the world. 28,169 feet (8586 meters).
  • katzenjammer — the discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.
  • kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
  • lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
  • lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
  • majesticness — The quality of being majestic.
  • major planet — planet (def 1a).
  • major tenace — the ace and queen of a suit held by one player.
  • major-planet — Astronomy. Also called major planet. any of the eight large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, in the order of their proximity to the sun. Until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet ninth in order from the sun; it has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun. (formerly) a celestial body moving in the sky, as distinguished from a fixed star, applied also to the sun and moon.
  • mexican jade — Mexican onyx artificially colored green.
  • misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
  • misjudgement — Alternative form of misjudgment.
  • misjudgments — Plural form of misjudgment.
  • mohenjo-daro — an archaeological site in Pakistan, near the Indus River: six successive ancient cities were built here.
  • nailer joist — a steel joist having a permanently attached nailing strip, as for securing wooden flooring.
  • nonconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
  • nonobjective — not objective.
  • nordenskjold — Baron Nils Adolf Erik [nils ah-dawlf ey-rik] /nɪls ˈɑ dɔlf ˈeɪ rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1832–1901, Swedish arctic explorer, geographer, and geologist; born in Finland.
  • objectcenter — A product offering similar facilities to CodeCenter for the C++ language, plus class browsing facilities etc (formerly Saber-C++).
  • objecteering — (programming, tool)   An object-oriented design tool from Softeam, based on the Class Relation Methodology, with C++ code generation.
  • objectifying — Present participle of objectify.
  • ojo caliente — a hot spring.
  • orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
  • pipe jacking — a method of laying underground pipelines by assembling the pipes at the foot of an access shaft and pushing them through the ground
  • prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
  • prester john — a legendary Christian monk and potentate of the Middle Ages, supposed to have had a kingdom in some remote part of Asia or Africa and associated with fabulous narratives of travel.
  • pro-japanese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Japan, its people, or their language.
  • project note — a short-term municipal note issued by a local government housing agency to finance a public housing project.
  • rabbet joint — a joint between rabbeted parts.
  • reaching jib — genoa.
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