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12-letter words containing j, g

  • judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
  • jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • juggling act — If you say that a situation is a juggling act, you mean that someone is trying to do two or more things at once, and that they are finding it difficult to do those things properly.
  • jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
  • 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.
  • jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
  • jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
  • 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.
  • jury-packing — the practice of contriving that the majority of those chosen for a jury will be persons likely to have partialities affecting a particular case.
  • jury-rigging — the act of setting something up in a makeshift manner, usually as a result of the loss of regular gear
  • justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
  • juvenilizing — Present participle of juvenilize.
  • 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).
  • kigoma-ujiji — a city composed of two merged towns in W Tanzania, on Lake Tanganyika: Stanley found Livingstone in Ujiji 1871.
  • kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
  • kinchinjunga — Kanchenjunga.
  • major league — The major leagues are groups of professional sports teams that compete against each other, especially in American baseball.
  • major-league — Sports. of, relating to, or characteristic of the major leagues.
  • majorleaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
  • misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
  • misjudgement — Alternative form of misjudgment.
  • misjudgments — Plural form of misjudgment.
  • non-conjugal — of, relating to, or characteristic of marriage: conjugal vows.
  • nonconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
  • object glass — objective (def 3).
  • objecteering — (programming, tool)   An object-oriented design tool from Softeam, based on the Class Relation Methodology, with C++ code generation.
  • objectifying — Present participle of objectify.
  • orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
  • pipe jacking — a method of laying underground pipelines by assembling the pipes at the foot of an access shaft and pushing them through the ground
  • prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
  • pyjama rugby — an uncomplimentary term for the Super 12 Rugby Union competition that involves teams from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and which is noted for its free-flowing nature and lack of attritional play between the forwards
  • ranjit singh — ("Lion of the Punjab") 1780–1839, Indian maharaja: founder of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab.
  • reaching jib — genoa.
  • rejuvenating — making young again
  • running joke — a joke or humorous allusion used recurrently in a play, film, television skit, etc., for a cumulative comic effect.
  • running jump — a jump made after running a short distance
  • shijiazhuang — a province in NE China. 81,479 sq. mi. (211,031 sq. km). Capital: Shijiazhuang.
  • show jumping — sport: horseriding event
  • tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
  • teaching job — a position as a teacher
  • the jazz age — (esp in the US) the period between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression during which jazz became popular
  • toggle joint — any of various devices consisting basically of a rod that can be inserted into an object and then manipulated so that the inserted part spreads, becomes offset, or turns at a right angle to the exterior part, allowing it to be used as a support, handle, linkage, lever, etc.
  • trojan group — a group of asteroids oscillating about either of two points, equidistant from the sun and Jupiter, that forms an equilateral triangle with the sun and Jupiter.
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