14-letter words containing j, e, s, t
- overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
- poetic justice — an ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.
- projectisation — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- res adjudicata — res judicata.
- resojet engine — a type of pulsejet engine that burns a continuous flow of fuel but delivers a pulsating thrust due to the resonance of shock waves traveling through it.
- self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
- self-enjoyment — the act of enjoying.
- semi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- sergeant major — U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative assistant in a unit headquarters.
- shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
- smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
- squeezed joint — a joint between two members cemented or glued together under pressure.
- st. john perse — (pseud. of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887-1975; Fr. diplomat & poet
- st. john's eve — Midsummer Eve.
- st.-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- stadium jacket — an insulated, parkalike jacket that reaches to the mid thigh or the knees and often has a drawstring around the bottom edge, worn outdoors in cold weather.
- straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
- street justice — the punishment given by members of the public to people regarded as criminals or wrongdoers
- stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer
- subject matter — the substance of a discussion, book, writing, etc., as distinguished from its form or style.
- subject to sth — If an event will take place subject to a condition, it will take place only if that thing happens.
- subjectability — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjectiveness — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- subjectivities — the state or quality of being subjective; subjectiveness.
- sweet marjoram — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Origanum, of the mint family, especially O. majorana (sweet marjoram) having leaves used as seasoning in cooking.
- tax adjustment — a change to the amount of tax owed by a company or individual
- telejournalism — the writing and broadcasting of journalism for television
- telejournalist — a journalist who writes for or broadcasts on television
- the joe blakes — the DT's
- the july sales — a traditional retail event occurring in the month of July, when shops sell things at less than their normal price
- the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
- traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
- vestmannaeyjar — a group of 14 small Icelandic islands off the S coast of Iceland.
- well-justified — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- winter jasmine — a shrub, Jasminum nudiflorum, of China, having winter-blooming, yellow flowers.