18-letter words containing j, e, t
- limiting adjective — (in English and some other languages) one of a small group of adjectives that modify the nouns to which they are applied by restricting rather than describing or qualifying. This, some, and certain are limiting adjectives.
- lord chief justice — the presiding judge of Britain's High Court of Justice, the superior court of record for both criminal and civil cases.
- major tranquilizer — antipsychotic (def 2).
- money is no object — If you say that money is no object or distance is no object, you are emphasizing that you are willing or able to spend as much money as necessary or travel whatever distance is required.
- needlestick injury — an injury that is caused by accidentally pricking the skin with a hypodermic needle
- object-orientation — object-oriented
- objective genitive — a use of the genitive case to express an objective relationship, as in Latin timor mortis (fear of death)
- objective idealism — a form of idealism asserting that the act of experiencing has a reality combining and transcending the natures of the object experienced and of the mind of the observer.
- objective modula-2 — (language) (Or "ObjM2") An extension to Modula-2 for Cocoa and GNUstep software development. Objective Modula-2 follows the Objective-C object model and retains the bracketed Smalltalk message passing syntax used in Objective-C. Classes written in ObjM2 can be used within ObjC and vice versa. ObjM2 also retains Modula-2's data encapsulation features, namely nested modules with explicit import and export lists. Due to the strict type checking in Modula-2, ObjM2 can be considered a much safer programming language than is ObjC, yet losing none of the capabilities of ObjC.
- oblique projection — something that is oblique.
- overhead projector — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- peters' projection — a form of modified world map projection that attempts to reflect accurately the relative surface areas of landmasses, an approach which gives greater prominence (than do standard representations) to equatorial countries
- project management — leadership of a task or programme
- projection machine — an apparatus that projects motion pictures; projector.
- projection printer — enlarger.
- relative major key — a major key that has the same key signature as a minor key, but a different tonic
- rolled-steel joist — a steel beam, esp one with a cross section in the form of a letter H or I
- saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
- sao joao de meriti — a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.
- self-justification — the act or fact of justifying oneself, especially of offering excessive reasons, explanations, excuses, etc., for an act, thought, or the like.
- sit up like jackie — to sit bolt upright, esp cheekily
- spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
- st. james's palace — a palace in London, England: the royal residence from the time of Henry VIII until the accession of Victoria.
- stroustrup, bjarne — Bjarne Stroustrup
- subject complement — a word or a group of words, usually functioning as an adjective or noun, that is used in the predicate following a copula and describes or is identified with the subject of the sentence, as sleepy in The travelers became sleepy.
- teleobjective lens — telephoto lens.
- the fourth of july — a holiday in the United States, traditionally celebrated with fireworks: the day of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
- the heebie-jeebies — apprehension and nervousness
- the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
- treaty of rijswijk — a treaty signed at Rijswijk in the Netherlands in 1697, ending the War of the Grand Alliance
- under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.