9-letter words containing j, i, a
- jailbaits — a girl with whom sexual intercourse is punishable as statutory rape because she is under the legal age of consent.
- jailbirds — Plural form of jailbird.
- jailbreak — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- jaileress — a female jailer
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- jalousies — Plural form of jalousie.
- james iii — Stuart, James Francis Edward.
- james vii — title as king of Scotland of James II of England and Ireland
- janiculum — a ridge near the Tiber in Rome, Italy.
- janissary — (often initial capital letter) a member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century and abolished in 1826 after it revolted against the Sultan.
- janitress — a woman who is a janitor.
- jansenism — the doctrinal system of Cornelis Jansen and his followers, denying free will and maintaining that human nature is corrupt and that Christ died for the elect and not for all humanity.
- januarius — Saint, a.d. 272?–305? Italian ecclesiastic and martyr: patron saint of Naples.
- japanning — any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces.
- japonicas — Plural form of japonica.
- jargoning — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
- jargonise — Alternative form of jargonize.
- jargonish — jargonistic
- jargonist — a user of jargon
- jargonize — to talk jargon or a jargon.
- jarringly — to have a harshly unpleasant or perturbing effect on one's nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The sound of the alarm jarred.
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jasperize — To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- jaspilite — a metamorphic rock that has a high concentration of hematite and that resembles jasper
- jaundiced — affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice: jaundiced skin.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- javelinas — Plural form of javelina.
- jawboning — a bone of either jaw; a maxilla or mandible.
- jaz drive — (hardware, storage) Iomega Corporation's drive which takes removable one or two gigabyte disk cartridges which contain conventional hard disks. Internal and external drives are available claiming an average transfer rate of 330 megabytes per minute - though that is dependent on the SCSI adapter, the parallel port adapter is unlikely to reach anything like this speed. The Jaz drive was the successor to the company's more establistablished Zip Drive.
- jazziness — The state, quality or property of being jazzy.
- jeevesian — of, relating to, or like the butler Jeeves, who was, in the fiction of P. G. Wodehouse, a master of tact, euphemism, and ingenuity
- jeremiads — Plural form of jeremiad.
- jessamine — a female given name, form of Jasmine.
- jiangling — a city in S Hubei province, in central China, on the Chang Jiang.
- jib crane — a crane having an arm guyed at a fixed angle to the head of a rotating mast.
- jicarilla — a member of a group of North American Indians who once inhabited primarily northern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado and are situated in northwestern New Mexico.
- jiffy bag — a thickly padded but light envelope in which articles such as books are placed for protection in the post
- jigamaree — a trick or manoeuvre
- jigsawing — Present participle of jigsaw.
- jihadists — Plural form of jihadist.
- jillaroos — Plural form of jillaroo.
- jillstrap — (informal) A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
- jim clark — Dr. James H. Clark
- jim-dandy — of superior quality; excellent: a jim-dandy sports car.
- jinriksha — A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
- jive talk — black American slang
- johannine — of or relating to the apostle John or to the books in the New Testament attributed to him.
- joint bar — one of a pair of bars used to join two rails longitudinally.
- jonsonian — Ben, 1573?–1637, English dramatist and poet.