15-letter words containing j, e, n
- middelmannetjie — (South Africa) Ridge between ruts made by wheels in a dirt or gravel road.
- natural justice — accepted moral principles
- new jersey plan — a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
- new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
- non-adjudicated — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- nonjudgmentally — not judged or judging on the basis of one's personal standards or opinions: They tried to adopt a nonjudgmental attitude that didn't reflect their own biases. My guidance counselor in high school was sympathetic and nonjudgmental.
- object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.
- object exchange — (protocol) (OBEX) A Bluetooth protocol in the Core Protocol Stack for data exchange.
- object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
- object-oriented — pertaining to or denoting a system, programming language, etc., that supports the use of objects, as an entire image, a routine, or a data structure.
- objectification — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
- objectionable-c — (abuse, humour, language) A hackish take on "Objective C". Objectionable-C uses a Smalltalk-like syntax, but lacks the flexibility of Smalltalk method calls, and (like many such efforts) comes frustratingly close to attaining the Right Thing without actually doing so.
- outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
- personal injury — injury to an individual
- petit serjeanty — serjeanty in which the tenant renders services of an impersonal nature to the king, as providing him annually with an implement of war, as a lance or bow.
- pineapple juice — fruit drink: nectar of pineapple
- prejudicialness — the trait of being prejudicial
- project manager — sb who oversees project plan
- projection room — projection booth (def 1).
- pulsejet engine — a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.
- quintec-objects — Based on Quintec Prolog (not Quintus). British.
- railway journey — a journey made by railway train
- ramjet (engine) — a jet engine, without moving parts, in which the air for oxidizing the fuel is continuously compressed by being rammed into the inlet by the high velocity of the aircraft
- re-adjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- rear projection — the projection of filmed action or stills on a translucent screen in front of which actors are lit and filmed: used to simulate an outdoor or location background in the studio.
- rear-projection — the projection of filmed action or stills on a translucent screen in front of which actors are lit and filmed: used to simulate an outdoor or location background in the studio.
- red 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.
- retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
- saint-john-lake — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- sammet, jean e. — Jean E. Sammet
- self-adjustment — adjustment of oneself or itself, as to the environment.
- self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
- serjeant at law — (formerly in England) a barrister of a special rank, to which he was raised by a writ under the Great Seal
- serpentine jade — a green variety of serpentine used as a gem: not a true jade.
- silent majority — the U.S. citizens who supported President Nixon's policies but who were not politically vocal, outspoken, or active: considered by him to constitute a majority.
- sit in judgment — To sit in judgment means to decide whether or not someone is guilty of doing something wrong.
- sojourner truth — Sojourner [soh-jur-ner,, soh-jur-ner] /ˈsoʊ dʒɜr nər,, soʊˈdʒɜr nər/ (Show IPA), (Isabella Van Wagener) 1797?–1883, U.S. abolitionist, orator, and women's-rights advocate, born a slave.
- solid injection — injection of fuel into an internal-combustion engine without an air blast.
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
- subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
- telamonian ajax — Ajax (def 1).
- the job in hand — The job or problem in hand is the job or problem that you are dealing with at the moment.
- to jump the gun — If you jump the gun, you do something before everyone else or before the proper or right time.
- trojan asteroid — one of a number of asteroids that have the same mean motion and orbit as Jupiter, preceding or following the planet by a longitude of 60°
- trondheim fjord — an inlet of the Norwegian Sea in Norway, and Norway's third longest fjord, near which is the port of Trondheim
- turbojet engine — a jet-propulsion engine in which air from the atmosphere is compressed for combustion by a turbine-driven compressor.
- turnkey project — a complete project usually including many major units of plant completed under one overall contract, such as a chemical works or power station complex
- universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts