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14-letter words containing j, e

  • shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
  • silver jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
  • spinning jenny — an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously.
  • 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
  • the mujaheddin — (in Afghanistan and Iran) fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas; in Afghanistan in 1992 the mujaheddin overthrew the government but were unable to agree on a constitution due to factional conflict and in 1996 Taliban forces seized power
  • the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
  • thermojunction — a point of electrical contact between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears, the magnitude of which depends on the temperature of the contact and the nature of the metals
  • traffic-jammed — jam1 (def 16).
  • traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
  • ujamaa village — communally organized village in Tanzania
  • un-adjudicated — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • value judgment — an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.
  • vestmannaeyjar — a group of 14 small Icelandic islands off the S coast of Iceland.
  • wagner-jauregg — Julius [yoo-lee-oo s] /ˈyu liˌʊs/ (Show IPA), 1857–1940, Austrian psychiatrist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1927.
  • well-justified — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
  • winter jasmine — a shrub, Jasminum nudiflorum, of China, having winter-blooming, yellow flowers.
  • yellow jasmine — Carolina jessamine.
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