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18-letter words containing j, e, n

  • junior lightweight — a boxer weighing up to 130 pounds (58.5 kg), between featherweight and lightweight.
  • justice department — the United States federal department for enforcing federal laws
  • king james version — Authorized Version.
  • limiting adjective — (in English and some other languages) one of a small group of adjectives that modify the nouns to which they are applied by restricting rather than describing or qualifying. This, some, and certain are limiting adjectives.
  • madagascar jasmine — a Madagascan twining, woody vine, Stephanotis floribunda, of the milkweed family, having waxy-white, fragrant flowers.
  • major tranquilizer — antipsychotic (def 2).
  • money is no object — If you say that money is no object or distance is no object, you are emphasizing that you are willing or able to spend as much money as necessary or travel whatever distance is required.
  • needlestick injury — an injury that is caused by accidentally pricking the skin with a hypodermic needle
  • object-orientation — object-oriented
  • objective genitive — a use of the genitive case to express an objective relationship, as in Latin timor mortis (fear of death)
  • oblique projection — something that is oblique.
  • peters' projection — a form of modified world map projection that attempts to reflect accurately the relative surface areas of landmasses, an approach which gives greater prominence (than do standard representations) to equatorial countries
  • phoenician juniper — a type of juniper that is found in the Mediterranean region
  • project management — leadership of a task or programme
  • projection machine — an apparatus that projects motion pictures; projector.
  • projection printer — enlarger.
  • russo-japanese war — the war (1904–1905) between Russia and Japan.
  • saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
  • self-justification — the act or fact of justifying oneself, especially of offering excessive reasons, explanations, excuses, etc., for an act, thought, or the like.
  • spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
  • stroustrup, bjarne — Bjarne Stroustrup
  • subject complement — a word or a group of words, usually functioning as an adjective or noun, that is used in the predicate following a copula and describes or is identified with the subject of the sentence, as sleepy in The travelers became sleepy.
  • teleobjective lens — telephoto lens.
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
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