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14-letter words containing j, e, s

  • jeunesse doree — rich and fashionable young people
  • john constable — John, 1776–1837, English painter.
  • john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
  • johnny smokers — a plant Geum triflorum, of the rose family, native to North America, having purplish flowers and silky-plumed fruit.
  • judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
  • jump the shark — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • junior counsel — a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
  • just like that — suddenly
  • justinian code — the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.
  • keystone joist — a reinforced-concrete joist with sloping sides and the top wider than the bottom.
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
  • majesticalness — the glory or majesty of someone or something
  • major prophets — theology
  • major seminary — a Roman Catholic theological college devoted to training for the priesthood and usually offering a six-year program emphasizing philosophy and theology.
  • maladjustments — Plural form of maladjustment.
  • matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
  • moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
  • new jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
  • new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
  • non-adjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
  • non-subjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
  • nonjusticiable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
  • nonobjectivism — (philosophy) Any belief system that rejects objectivism.
  • nonobjectivist — (philosophy) One who is not an objectivist.
  • objective case — objective (def 2a).
  • objective lens — objective (def 3).
  • objective test — a test consisting of factual questions requiring extremely short answers that can be quickly and unambiguously scored by anyone with an answer key, thus minimizing subjective judgments by both the person taking the test and the person scoring it.
  • objective-case — 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.
  • objective-lens — 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.
  • objectlessness — The state or condition of being objectless.
  • 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
  • reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
  • rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
  • rejuvenescence — becoming young again.
  • 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.
  • san jose scale — a scale insect, Aspidiotus perniciosus, that is highly destructive to fruit trees and shrubs throughout the U.S.
  • 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.
  • semimajor axis — Geometry. one half the major axis of an ellipse.
  • sergeant major — U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative assistant in a unit headquarters.
  • serra junipero — Miguel José [mee-gel haw-se] /miˈgɛl hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1713–84, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians in California and Mexico.
  • shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
  • silver jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
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