11-letter words containing j, i
- jasperizing — Present participle of jasperize.
- jawdropping — Alternative form of jaw-dropping.
- jazz singer — a singer whose vocal technique is similar to that of a musical instrument, and whose singing has a strong jazz feeling, chiefly imparted through phrasing, melodic improvisation, and rhythmic subtlety.
- jazz-fusion — jazz-rock.
- jean piaget — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1896–1980, Swiss psychologist: studied cognitive development of children.
- jellyfishes — Plural form of jellyfish.
- jeopardised — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardized — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopardize.
- jeopardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeopardize.
- jerry-build — to build cheaply and flimsily.
- jerry-built — built cheaply and flimsily.
- jersey city — a seaport in NE New Jersey, opposite New York City.
- jersey pine — Virginia pine.
- jesuit ware — Chinese porcelain of the early 18th century, decorated with Christian motifs, usually in black and gold on a white background.
- jet fighter — aeronautics
- jet-setting — You use jet-setting to describe people who are rich and successful and who have a luxurious lifestyle.
- jettisoning — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- jeune fille — a girl or young woman.
- jew-baiting — active anti-Semitism.
- jewelfishes — Plural form of jewelfish.
- jewelleries — articles of gold, silver, precious stones, etc., for personal adornment.
- jiang zemin — born 1926, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1989–2002, president of China 1993–2003.
- jiggermasts — Plural form of jiggermast.
- jim crowism — Jim Crow (def 1).
- jimson weed — a coarse, rank-smelling weed, Datura stramonium, of the nightshade family, having oaklike, poisonous leaves and tubular white or lavender flowers.
- jimsonweeds — Plural form of jimsonweed.
- jingle bell — a hollow, round, metal bell with a metal ball inside, which makes a jingling sound when it moves: jingle bells on a horse and sleigh.
- jitteriness — extremely tense and nervous; jumpy: He's very jittery about the medical checkup.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- job hunting — the activity of searching for employment
- job printer — a printer who does letterheads, invoices, announcements, and other miscellaneous work, as distinguished from one who works solely on books, periodicals, etc.
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- jocoserious — Simultaneously jocular and serious; mixing mirth with serious matters.
- joe sixpack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- john calvin — John (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin) 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.
- john paul i — (Albino Luciani) 1912–78, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1978.
- join battle — to start fighting
- join forces — unite for a common purpose
- joined case — a trial combining multiple related claims, etc
- joiner door — Shipbuilding. a door of wood or light metal set in a nonwatertight bulkhead.
- joining fee — a sum of money that you pay in order to become a member of a club, organization, etc, or in order to start receiving a service, such as a phone line
- joint issue — one of two or more stamps that are issued jointly by two governments to commemorate an event of common historical interest.
- joint stock — stock or capital divided into a number of shares.
- joint stool — a low wood stool having turned legs with all parts joined by a mortise joint.
- jointedness — The state or condition of being jointed.
- jointresses — Plural form of jointress.
- jolie laide — a woman whose ugliness forms her chief fascination
- josephinite — a mineral alloy of nickel and iron
- joukahainen — a Lapp magician who tried to kill Väinämöinen.
- journalists — Plural form of journalist.