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17-letter words containing j, i

  • meiji restoration — revolution in Japanese life and government that occurred after the accession of Emperor Mutsuhito (1867), characterized by the downfall of the shogun and feudalism and the creation of a modern state
  • microsoft project — (product)   A Microsoft Windows program offering various project management tools.
  • object identifier — (programming)   (OID) Generally an implementation-specific integer or pointer that uniquely identifies an object.
  • objectionableness — The quality of being objectionable.
  • on-the-job injury — On-the-job injury is bodily harm that is caused while you are doing your job.
  • pulsejet (engine) — a jet engine without a compressor or turbine, in which intermittent combustion provides the thrust
  • relative majority — the excess of votes or seats won by the winner of an election over the runner-up when no candidate or party has more than 50 per cent
  • saint john's wort — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Hypericum, having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves.
  • sino-japanese war — the war (1894–95) between China and Japan over the control of Korea that resulted in the nominal independence of Korea and the Chinese cession to Japan of Formosa and the Pescadores.
  • slip-joint pliers — pliers having a sliding joint, permitting the span of the jaws to be adjusted.
  • subjective spirit — spirit, insofar as it falls short of the attainments of objective spirit.
  • terminal juncture — a form of juncture consisting of a change in pitch before a pause, marking the end of an utterance or a break between utterances, as between clauses. Compare close juncture, juncture (def 7), open juncture.
  • the joke is on sb — If you say that the joke is on a particular person, you mean that they have been made to look very foolish by something.
  • without prejudice — fairly
  • yellow journalism — a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.
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