11-letter words containing j, o, a
- jacobinized — Simple past tense and past participle of jacobinize.
- jactitation — Law. a false boast or claim that causes injury to another.
- jam session — a meeting of a group of musicians, especially jazz musicians, to play for their own enjoyment.
- janitorship — the office of janitor
- janus cloth — a worsted fabric, each side of which has a different color.
- jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour) The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
- jargonistic — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
- jawdropping — Alternative form of jaw-dropping.
- jazz-fusion — jazz-rock.
- jealoushood — jealousy
- jealousness — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- jean goujon — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), c1510–c1568, French sculptor.
- jehoshaphat — a king of Judah, son of Asa, who reigned in the 9th century b.c. I Kings 22:41–50.
- jehovah god — (among the Jehovah's Witnesses) God.
- 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.
- jerk around — If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
- joan of arc — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- joao pessoa — a state in E Brazil. 21,760 sq. mi. (56,360 sq. km). Capital: João Pessoa.
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- job vacancy — a job which has not been filled
- job's-tears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- joe sixpack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- joel barlow — Joel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
- john calvin — John (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin) 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.
- john dalton — John, 1766–1844, English chemist and physicist.
- john paul i — (Albino Luciani) 1912–78, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1978.
- john thomas — an apostle who demanded proof of Christ's Resurrection. John 20:24–29.
- johnny cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- johnny-cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- join battle — to start fighting
- joined case — a trial combining multiple related claims, etc
- jolie laide — a woman whose ugliness forms her chief fascination
- joseph raff — Joseph Joachim, 1822–82, Swiss composer.
- joshua tree — an evergreen tree, Yucca brevifolia, growing in arid or desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having long, twisted branches.
- joukahainen — a Lapp magician who tried to kill Väinämöinen.
- joule's law — the principle that the rate of production of heat by a constant direct current is directly proportional to the resistance of the circuit and to the square of the current.
- journal box — a box or housing for a journal and its bearing.
- journalists — Plural form of journalist.
- journalized — Simple past tense and past participle of journalize.
- journalizer — One who records events in a journal.
- journalling — journal
- juan carlos — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- judeophobia — Alternative case form of Judeophobia.
- jumpstation — A site on the World Wide Web containing a collection of hypertext links, usually to pages on a particular topic.
- juramentado — (formerly) a Muslim, especially a Moro, bound by an oath to be killed fighting against Christians and other infidels.
- jure humano — by human law.
- justaucorps — a fitted, knee-length coat, characterized by wide turned-back cuffs and stiff flared skirts, worn especially by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.