7-letter words containing j, o, a
- jehovah — a name of God in the Old Testament, a rendering of the ineffable name, JHVH, in the Hebrew Scriptures.
- jeofail — an oversight in a legal pleading
- jeopard — to jeopardize.
- jerboas — Plural form of jerboa.
- jetboat — A boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft.
- jiaozuo — a city in Henan province, E central China.
- jigaboo — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- joachim — Joseph [yoh-zef] /ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1831–1907, Hungarian violinist and composer.
- joannes — johannes.
- jobname — the title of a position or job
- jocasta — Classical Mythology. a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius and the mother, later the wife, of Oedipus, by whom she bore Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone: called Epicaste by Homer.
- jocular — given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious: jocular remarks about opera stars.
- johanna — a female given name.
- jojobas — Plural form of jojoba.
- jordans — Plural form of jordan.
- jornada — a full day's travel across a desert without a stop for taking on water.
- jouhaux — Léon [ley-awn] /leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1879–1954, French labor leader and politician: Nobel Peace Prize 1951.
- jourdan — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), Count, 1762–1833, French marshal.
- journal — a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations: She kept a journal during her European trip.
- joyance — joyous feeling; gladness.
- joycean — of, relating to, or characteristic of James Joyce or his work.
- joypads — Plural form of joypad.
- judaeo- — relating to Judaism
- judokas — Plural form of judoka.
- koradji — boyla.
- lockjaw — tetanus in which the jaws become firmly locked together; trismus.
- log jam — an immovable pileup or tangle of logs, as in a river, causing a blockage.
- logjams — Plural form of logjam.
- mahjong — a game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with 144 dominolike pieces or tiles marked in suits, counters, and dice, the object being to build a winning combination of pieces.
- majorat — the right of succession which belongs to the first-born child or son of a family
- majorca — a Spanish island in the W Mediterranean: the largest of the Balearic Islands. 1405 sq. mi. (3640 sq. km). Capital: Palma.
- majored — a commissioned military officer ranking next below a lieutenant colonel and next above a captain.
- majorly — Slang. extremely; thoroughly: The class was majorly hard.
- marjory — a female given name, form of Margaret.
- mojarra — any of several chiefly tropical, silvery fishes of the family Gerridae, having a protrusible mouth and grooves at the bases of the dorsal and anal fins into which the fins can be folded.
- navajos — a member of the principal tribe of the southern division of the Athabaskan stock of North American Indians, located in New Mexico and Arizona, and now constituting the largest tribal group in the U.S.
- ojibway — Ojibwa.
- pohjola — a region to the north of Finland, ruled by the sorceress Louhi: often identified with Lapland.
- saionji — Kimmochi [keem-maw-chee] /ˈkim mɔˌtʃi/ (Show IPA), 1849–1940, Japanese statesman.
- sapajou — a capuchin monkey.
- sjambok — (in southern Africa) a heavy whip, usually of rhinoceros hide.
- tanjore — a city in E Tamil Nadu, in SE India.
- tapajos — a river flowing NE through central Brazil to the Amazon. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- thjorsa — a river in central Iceland, flowing SW to the Atlantic Ocean. About 143 miles (230 km) long.
- vallejo — César [Spanish se-sahr] /Spanish ˈsɛ sɑr/ (Show IPA), 1895–1938, Peruvian poet.
- wackjob — Alternative spelling of whackjob.
- wouldja — Eye dialect of would you.
- yongjia — former name of Wenzhou.
- zanjero — an irrigation supervisor; someone in charge of water distribution