11-letter words containing j, e, t
- honest john — Informal. an honest, sincere man. a man so trusting and innocent that he may be easily cheated or deceived.
- hot jupiter — any of a class of large, hot, gaseous planets similar to Jupiter in mass but outside our solar system.
- in jig time — very quickly
- injury time — sport: stoppage time, extension of play by time spent treating injured players
- interjacent — between or among others; intervening; intermediate.
- interjected — Simple past tense and past participle of interject.
- interjector — One who interjects.
- interjoined — Simple past tense and past participle of interjoin.
- introjected — Simple past tense and past participle of introject.
- jack rafter — a rafter having less than the full length of the roof slope, as one meeting a hip or a valley.
- jacklighter — a person who hunts or fishes at night with the aid of a jacklight.
- jasmine tea — tea scented with jasmine blossoms.
- java trench — a trench in the Indian Ocean, S of Java: deepest known part of Indian Ocean. 25,344 feet (7725 meters) deep.
- javel water — sodium hypochlorite, NaOCl, dissolved in water, used as a bleach, antiseptic, etc.
- jazz ballet — ballet danced to jazz music
- jean piaget — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1896–1980, Swiss psychologist: studied cognitive development of children.
- jehoshaphat — a king of Judah, son of Asa, who reigned in the 9th century b.c. I Kings 22:41–50.
- jejunectomy — excision of part or all of the jejunum.
- jejunostomy — an artificial opening from the jejunum through the abdominal wall, created for the drainage of jejunal contents or for feeding.
- jerry-built — built cheaply and flimsily.
- jersey city — a seaport in NE New Jersey, opposite New York City.
- jesuit ware — Chinese porcelain of the early 18th century, decorated with Christian motifs, usually in black and gold on a white background.
- jet fighter — aeronautics
- jet-setting — You use jet-setting to describe people who are rich and successful and who have a luxurious lifestyle.
- jettisoning — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- jeu de mots — a pun.
- jew-baiting — active anti-Semitism.
- jiggermasts — Plural form of jiggermast.
- jitteriness — extremely tense and nervous; jumpy: He's very jittery about the medical checkup.
- job printer — a printer who does letterheads, invoices, announcements, and other miscellaneous work, as distinguished from one who works solely on books, periodicals, etc.
- job's-tears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- joggle post — a wooden king post having notches or raised areas for receiving and supporting the feet of struts.
- john motley — John Lothrop [loh-thruh p] /ˈloʊ θrəp/ (Show IPA), 1814–77, U.S. historian and diplomat.
- john sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- join battle — to start fighting
- joint issue — one of two or more stamps that are issued jointly by two governments to commemorate an event of common historical interest.
- jointedness — The state or condition of being jointed.
- jointresses — Plural form of jointress.
- josephinite — a mineral alloy of nickel and iron
- joshua tree — an evergreen tree, Yucca brevifolia, growing in arid or desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having long, twisted branches.
- judgemental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- judicatures — Plural form of judicature.
- juggernauts — Plural form of juggernaut.
- jumpmasters — Plural form of jumpmaster.
- jumpstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of jumpstart.
- juniper tar — a medicinal tar derived from the European juniper Juniperus oxycedrus: used topically in the treatment of certain skin diseases.
- 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.
- jury system — a legal system used to determine the facts in a lawsuit
- jus gentium — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)