9-letter words containing j, n
- enjoining — Present participle of enjoin.
- enjoyable — (of an activity or occasion) giving delight or pleasure.
- enjoyably — In an enjoyable manner.
- enjoyment — The state or process of taking pleasure in something.
- ganga jal — sacred water from the River Ganges in India
- genoa jib — a large triangular jib sail, often with a foot that extends as far aft as the clew of the mainsail
- gunnbjorn — Mount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
- gyp joint — any business establishment that charges excessively for poor-quality service or goods.
- hijacking — Present participle of hijack.
- hip joint — a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone.
- hojillion — (slang, hyperbole, rare) An unspecified large number (of).
- hu jintao — born 1942, Chinese Communist statesman; president of China (2003–2013)
- hung jury — a jury that cannot agree on a verdict.
- injectant — a substance injected through the skin, as bee-sting venom or penicillin administered by injection, that causes an allergic reaction.
- injecting — Present participle of inject.
- injection — the act of injecting.
- injective — (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain); inverse-deterministic.
- injectors — Plural form of injector.
- injurious — harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
- injustice — the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
- inner jib — a headsail immediately forward of a forestaysail or fore-topmast staysail.
- interject — to insert between other things: to interject a clarification of a previous statement.
- interjoin — (mathematics) To interconnect two sets.
- introject — (psychology) To unconsciously incorporate into one's psyche.
- irukandji — a tiny but highly venomous Australian jellyfish
- j. random — (jargon) /J rand'm/ (Generalised from J. Random Hacker) Arbitrary; ordinary; any one; any old. "J. Random" is often prefixed to a noun to make a name out of it. It means roughly "some particular" or "any specific one". "Would you let J. Random Loser marry your daughter?" The most common uses are "J. Random Hacker", "J. Random Loser", and "J. Random Nerd" ("Should J. Random Loser be allowed to gun down other people?"), but it can be used simply as an elaborate version of random in any sense.
- j. wanhal — Johann Baptist, Vanhal, Jan Křtitel.
- jabbering — rapid, indistinct, or nonsensical talk; gibberish.
- jaborandi — any of several South American shrubs belonging to the genus Pilocarpus, of the rue family.
- jacaranda — any of various tropical trees belonging to the genus Jacaranda, of the catalpa family, having showy clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- jack bean — a bushy tropical plant, Canavalia ensiformis, of the legume family, grown especially for forage.
- jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
- jackanape — Of or pertaining to a jackanapes.
- jacketing — Present participle of jacket.
- jackknife — a large pocketknife.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jackwagon — (US, slang, derogatory) An objectionable person; a jerk; a jackass.
- jacobinic — Of or relating to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary.
- jactation — boasting; bragging.
- jadedness — dulled or satiated by overindulgence: a jaded appetite.
- jagannath — Hinduism. a name of Krishna or Vishnu.
- jalandhar — a city in N Punjab, in NW India.
- jalapenos — Plural form of jalapeno.
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jan mayen — a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean between Greenland and Norway: a possession of Norway. 144 sq. mi. (373 sq. km).
- jane cowl — Jane, 1884–1950, U.S. actress and playwright.
- jane eyre — a novel (1847) by Charlotte Brontë.
- janiculum — a ridge near the Tiber in Rome, Italy.