11-letter words containing j, e, r
- jugged hare — a stew made of wild rabbit, usually cooked in an earthenware jug or stone pot.
- juggernauts — Plural form of juggernaut.
- jumpmasters — Plural form of jumpmaster.
- jumpstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of jumpstart.
- 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.
- jury system — a legal system used to determine the facts in a lawsuit
- jury-rigged — Nautical. a temporary rig to replace a permanent rig that has been disabled, lost overboard, etc.
- jus naturae — law of nature; natural law
- lantern jaw — a distinctly protruding, often wide lower jaw.
- leatherjack — Leatherjacket (fish in genus Oligoplites).
- lime-juicer — a British sailor.
- long jumper — an athlete who does the long jump
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- major order — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
- major piece — a queen or rook.
- major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
- majoretting — the practice of performing as majorettes
- majoritaire — a member of the majority faction in a political party
- megaproject — A very large public investment project, especially one costing more than one billion US dollars.
- microinject — to inject into a single cell or cell part.
- misjoinders — Plural form of misjoinder.
- 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.
- mitered jib — a diagonal-cut jib.
- 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.
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
- objet d'art — an object of artistic worth or curiosity, especially a small object.
- objurgative — That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
- orjonikidze — Ordzhonikidze (def 1).
- over-joyous — joyful; happy; jubilant: the joyous sounds of children at play.
- overenjoyed — Simple past tense and past participle of overenjoy.
- prejudgment — to judge beforehand.
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- prejudicate — to judge beforehand
- prejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- prejudicing — any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
- project mac — (project) A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
- projectable — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- projectment — a design or projection
- readjourned — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- red jasmine — a fragrant shrub with fragrant flowers, also known as frangipani
- reinjection — an injection that follows a previous injection