12-letter words containing j, e, u
- joint runner — (in plumbing) incombustible materials for packing a joint to be caulked with lead.
- joliot-curie — Irène [ee-ren] /iˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), (Irène Curie) 1897–1956, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 (daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie).
- jolly jumper — any light sail set above a skysail; flying kite.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- joule effect — the generation of heat by the passage of electricity through a resistance.
- journey time — the time taken to make a journey
- journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
- juan de fuca — a strait between Vancouver Island and NW Washington. 100 miles (160 km) long; 15–20 miles (24–32 km) wide.
- jubilee year — jubilee (def 5a).
- judgment day — the day of the Last Judgment; doomsday.
- judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- juiz de fora — a city in SE Brazil, N of Rio de Janeiro.
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- jump the gun — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- jumping gene — transposon.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- junction fet — Junction Field Effect Transistor
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- jungle bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- jungle fever — a severe variety of malarial fever occurring in the East Indies and the tropics.
- jungle juice — moonshine: home-made alcohol
- jungle-bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- junior clerk — a clerk of low rank
- junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
- junk science — faulty scientific information or research, especially when used to advance special interests.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
- jury process — the writ used to summon jurors
- jus naturale — 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)
- just as well — fortunate
- just because — for the sole reason that
- just deserts — Usually, deserts. reward or punishment that is deserved: Death was his desert. Synonyms: due, payment, recompense, reward; justice, retaliation, retribution, penalty.
- just in case — if it should happen that
- just in time — Business. noting or pertaining to a method of inventory control that keeps inventories low by scheduling needed goods and equipment to arrive a short time before a production run begins. Abbreviation: JIT.
- just quietly — between you and me; confidentially
- just the job — If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.
- just-in-time — dynamic translation
- juste milieu — a point between two extremes; the golden mean.
- juste-milieu — a point between two extremes; the golden mean.
- juvenescence — being or becoming youthful; young.
- juvenilizing — Present participle of juvenilize.
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- kanchenjunga — a mountain in S Asia, between NE India and Nepal, in the E Himalayas: third highest in the world. 28,169 feet (8586 meters).
- kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
- left-justify — If printed text is left-justified, each line begins at the same distance from the left-hand edge of the page or column.