13-letter words containing j, e, n
- japanese silk — raw silk of usually high quality produced in Japan, used in the manufacture of such fabrics as shantung and habutai.
- japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
- jasperization — The act or process of jasperizing.
- jean de meung — real name Jean Clopinel. ?1250–?1305, French poet, who continued Guillaume de Lorris' Roman de la Rose. His portion of the poem consists of some 18 000 lines and contains satirical attacks on women and the Church
- jefferson day — April 13, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, a legal holiday in Alabama, sometimes celebrated by the Democratic Party by the holding of fund-raising dinners.
- jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
- jejunostomies — Plural form of jejunostomy.
- jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
- jequitinhonha — a river in E Brazil, flowing from the state of Minas Gerais to the Atlantic Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- jerry sussman — Gerald Sussman
- jesus sandals — simple leather sandals of a type often worn by hippies
- jet condenser — a steam condenser in which a jet of water is sprayed into the condenser chamber.
- jeune premier — the male juvenile lead in a play or movie.
- jitterbugging — Present participle of jitterbug.
- job interview — a formal meeting at which someone is asked questions in order to find out if they are suitable for a post of employment
- jogging shoes — shoes designed for jogging
- johann herder — Johann Gottfried von [yoh-hahn gawt-freet fuh n] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈgɔt frit fən/ (Show IPA), 1744–1803, German philosopher and poet.
- johann tetzel — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1465?–1519, German monk: antagonist of Martin Luther.
- john endicott — John, Endecott, John.
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- john sobieski — John, John III (def 2).
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- johnson noise — thermal background noise in a radio receiver
- joint manager — sb who shares authority and responsibility for sth
- joint partner — a person who shares the ownership of a firm or business equally with another or others
- joint session — a joint meeting, as of both houses of a bicameral legislature: The president addressed a joint session of Congress on the crisis in Central America.
- joint tenancy — a holding of property, either real or personal, by two or more persons with each sharing the undivided interest, the entire tenancy passing to the survivor or survivors.
- joint venture — business: joint enterprise
- joint-venture — to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.
- jointer plane — a plane for truing the edges of boards, planing large surfaces, etc.
- jolly balance — a spring balance used for determining the density of a sample by comparison of its weight in air and water.
- jomo kenyatta — Jomo [joh-moh] /ˈdʒoʊ moʊ/ (Show IPA), 1893?–1978, Kenyan political leader: president 1964–78.
- jordan engine — a machine for beating and refining pulp, used in manufacturing certain grades of paper.
- joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- journal entry — sth written in a diary
- journeyperson — A journeyman or journeywoman.
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- joyner-kersee — Jacqueline ("Jackie") born 1962, U.S. track and field athlete.
- juan de onate — Juan de [hwahn de] /ʰwɑn dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1550?–1624, Spanish explorer who colonized New Mexico.
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- judgment debt — Law. a debt established or confirmed by decree of a court of law.
- judgment note — Law. a note that expressly authorizes a creditor, in case of default, to seek a judgment in court without notifying the debtor.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
- juggling eggs — Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel "The Mote in God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." See also hack mode.
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
- jumping genes — transposon.