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12-letter words containing j, l

  • jelenia gora — a city in SW Poland, a historic mining center.
  • jelly fungus — any of various fungi of the order Tremellales, distinguished by gelatinous basidiocarp.
  • jeopardously — with risk or peril
  • jet airplane — jet plane.
  • jettisonable — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
  • jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
  • jingle shell — any of several marine, bivalve mollusks of the genus Anomia, having a thin, pearly shell with a conspicuous hole or notch near the hinge of the lower valve.
  • jk flip-flop — (hardware)   An edge triggered SR flip-flop with extra logic such that only one of the R and S inputs is enabled at any time. This prevents a race condition which can occur when both inputs of an RS flip-flop are active at the same time. In a JK flip-flop the R and S inputs are renamed J and K. The set input (J) is only enabled when the flip-flop is reset and K when it is set. If both J and K inputs are held active then the outputs will change ("togle") on each falling edge of the clock. JK flip-flops can be used to build a binary counter with a reset input.
  • job analysis — a detailed study of the requirements necessary to complete a job, taking into consideration chiefly the order of operation, material and machinery needed, and the necessary qualifications of workers.
  • jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
  • jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
  • john gilmore — (person)   A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
  • john mauchly — (person)   /jon W mok'*-lee/ (rhymes with "broccoli") Dr. John W. Mauchly, one of the developers of ENIAC.
  • john paul ii — (Karol Wojtyla) 1920–2005, Polish ecclesiastic: pope 1978–2005.
  • joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
  • joliot-curie — Irène [ee-ren] /iˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), (Irène Curie) 1897–1956, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 (daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie).
  • jolly jumper — any light sail set above a skysail; flying kite.
  • joule effect — the generation of heat by the passage of electricity through a resistance.
  • journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
  • joy, william — William Joy
  • juan hidalgo — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
  • jubilee year — jubilee (def 5a).
  • 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
  • julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
  • jump a claim — to seize mining rights or land claimed by someone else
  • 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.
  • junior class — the penultimate class in high school or college
  • junior clerk — a clerk of low rank
  • junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
  • jurisconsult — Roman and Civil Law. a person authorized to give legal advice.
  • juristically — of or relating to a jurist or to jurisprudence; juridical.
  • jus naturale — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
  • just as well — fortunate
  • just quietly — between you and me; confidentially
  • juste milieu — a point between two extremes; the golden mean.
  • juste-milieu — a point between two extremes; the golden mean.
  • justicialism — the political doctrine of Juan Domingo Perón, formerly President of Argentina
  • 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.
  • labia majora — female genitals: outer folds of skin
  • lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
  • lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
  • left-justify — If printed text is left-justified, each line begins at the same distance from the left-hand edge of the page or column.
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