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14-letter words containing j, e, t

  • 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.
  • objet de vertu — an object of virtu
  • overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
  • owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
  • parachute jump — leaping from aircraft with a parachute
  • petit dejeuner — breakfast.
  • poetic justice — an ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • project athena — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
  • project leader — leader of a task or programme
  • projectisation — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
  • projectization — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
  • propjet engine — turbo-propeller engine.
  • pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
  • readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
  • relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
  • 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.
  • return journey — the journey back from a destination
  • 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 job market — the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do
  • 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
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