15-letter words containing j, e, t
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- jewelers' putty — putty powder.
- job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
- job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
- job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
- job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
- jobbing printer — a person who prints mainly commercial and display work rather than books or newspapers
- john lewis list — a list used by clerks in the House of Commons to assess the amount that may reasonably be claimed for various items by Members of Parliament as living expenses
- john ousterhout — (person) /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics. See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy. E-mail: [email protected]
- joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
- joint committee — a committee appointed from both houses of a bicameral legislature in order to reach a compromise on their differences concerning a particular issue.
- joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
- joint ownership — sharing of property
- joint-household — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- joseph pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
- jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
- judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
- juice extractor — device: squeezes juice from fruit
- junggrammatiker — a group of linguists of the late 19th century who held that phonetic laws are universally valid and allow of no exceptions; neo-grammarians.
- junior minister — politics
- jupiter pluvius — Jupiter regarded as the giver of rain
- jupiter's-beard — red valerian.
- jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
- juristic person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- just the ticket — If you say that something is just the ticket, you mean that it is exactly what is needed.
- justice in eyre — a circuit made by an itinerant judge (justice in eyre) in medieval England.
- justice's court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
- justifiableness — Justifiability.
- juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
- juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
- lake saint john — a lake in Canada, in S Quebec: drained by the Saguenay River. Area: 971 sq km (375 sq miles)
- lake-saint-john — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- left outer join — outer join
- majority leader — the leader of the majority party in a legislative body, especially the party member who directs the activities of the majority party on the floor of either the Senate or the House of Representatives.
- microinjections — Plural form of microinjection.
- microprojection — the projection of an image, captured by a microscope, onto a screen
- middelmannetjie — (South Africa) Ridge between ruts made by wheels in a dirt or gravel road.
- natural justice — accepted moral principles
- new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
- non-adjudicated — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- nonjudgmentally — not judged or judging on the basis of one's personal standards or opinions: They tried to adopt a nonjudgmental attitude that didn't reflect their own biases. My guidance counselor in high school was sympathetic and nonjudgmental.
- object database — a database format in which information is shown in the form of objects
- object distance — the distance between the lens of a camera and an object being photographed.
- object exchange — (protocol) (OBEX) A Bluetooth protocol in the Core Protocol Stack for data exchange.
- object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
- object-oriented — pertaining to or denoting a system, programming language, etc., that supports the use of objects, as an entire image, a routine, or a data structure.
- objectification — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
- objectionable-c — (abuse, humour, language) A hackish take on "Objective C". Objectionable-C uses a Smalltalk-like syntax, but lacks the flexibility of Smalltalk method calls, and (like many such efforts) comes frustratingly close to attaining the Right Thing without actually doing so.
- objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.