9-letter words containing j, g
- jelly bag — a muslin bag used to strain off the juice from the fruit in making jelly (the preserve)
- jelutongs — Plural form of jelutong.
- jenneting — an apple that ripens early in the growing season
- jerkingly — in a jerking manner
- jerry-rig — jury-rig.
- jestingly — Said, written or done in jest.
- jetlagged — a temporary disruption of the body's normal biological rhythms after high-speed air travel through several time zones.
- jiangling — a city in S Hubei province, in central China, on the Chang Jiang.
- jibbering — Present participle of jibber.
- jiffy bag — a thickly padded but light envelope in which articles such as books are placed for protection in the post
- jig is up — a rapid, lively, springy, irregular dance for one or more persons, usually in triple meter.
- jig-is-up — a rapid, lively, springy, irregular dance for one or more persons, usually in triple meter.
- jigamaree — a trick or manoeuvre
- jiggering — to interfere with.
- jiggumbob — an indistinct thing; thingamabob
- jigsawing — Present participle of jigsaw.
- jitterbug — a strenuously acrobatic dance consisting of a few standardized steps augmented by twirls, splits, somersaults, etc., popular especially in the early 1940s and performed chiefly to boogie-woogie and swing.
- jittering — jitters, nervousness; a feeling of fright or uneasiness (usually preceded by the): Every time I have to make a speech, I get the jitters.
- jockeying — a person who rides horses professionally in races.
- jockteleg — a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
- jointings — Plural form of jointing.
- joltingly — In a jolting way; with abrupt, uneven shakes or knocks.
- jongleurs — Plural form of jongleur.
- jonkoping — a city in S Sweden.
- joshingly — In a joshing manner; teasingly.
- jottering — Misspelling of jotting.
- joyriding — The action or practice of driving fast and dangerously in a stolen car for enjoyment.
- jpeg-2000 — (image, file format) A potential successor to JPEG with better compression and multiresolution images. JPEG-2000 gives reasonable quality down to 0.1 bits/pixel (JPEG quality drops dramatically below about 0.4 bits/pixel).
- juddering — Present participle of judder.
- judgeable — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judgeless — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judgelike — Resembling a judge or some aspect of one.
- judgement — an act or instance of judging.
- judgeship — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judgingly — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judgmatic — judicious.
- judgments — Plural form of judgment.
- jug-eared — having ears (jug ears) that stick out from the head resembling the way that a handle sticks out from a jug
- jugginses — Plural form of juggins.
- juneating — an early-season apple
- junglegym — climbing frame for children
- junglists — Plural form of junglist.
- junketing — Present participle of junket.
- juttingly — in a protruding or jutting manner
- king john — a drama (1596–97?) by Shakespeare.
- koorajong — kurrajong.
- kurrajong — an Australian bottle tree, Brachychiton populneus, having showy yellowish-white, bell-shaped flowers, grown as an ornamental.
- la granja — a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace (La Granja) treaty 1800.
- long jump — athletics: competition to jump the furthest
- long-jump — Track and Field. to execute a long jump.