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11-letter words containing j, o, l

  • jungle cock — the male of the jungle fowl.
  • jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
  • juniper oil — an oil obtained from the berries or wood of the common juniper, Juniperus communis.
  • kilimanjaro — a volcanic mountain in N Tanzania: highest peak in Africa. 19,321 feet (5889 meters).
  • kim jong il — 1942–2011, president of North Korea 1994–2011 (son of Kim Il Sung).
  • kim jong-il — 1942–2011, North Korean politician; supreme leader of North Korea (1994–2011): son of Kim Il-sung
  • lemon juice — citrus juice from lemons
  • little john — a large, powerful yeoman who was a member of Robin Hood's band.
  • long jumper — an athlete who does the long jump
  • major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
  • multijugous — having several pairs, especially pairs of leaflets; multijugate
  • nonjudicial — Not resulting from a court ruling or judgment.
  • object ball — the first ball struck by the cue ball in making a carom. Compare carom ball.
  • object lens — objective (def 3).
  • object lisp — (language)   An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
  • objectional — Objectionable.
  • objectively — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
  • postel, jon — Jon Postel
  • projectable — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
  • rejoicingly — in a rejoicing or exultant manner
  • royal jelly — a viscous substance secreted from the pharyngeal glands of worker honeybees, fed to all larvae during their first few days and afterward only to those larvae selected to be queens.
  • the jobless — those who are unemployed
  • unenjoyable — giving or capable of giving joy or pleasure: a very enjoyable film.
  • william joy — (person)   (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was also one of the people at the University of California at Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. He also wrote a book on Unix. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is still (1997) Vice-President of Research. Among his many projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File System and the SPARC architechture. See also dinosaur.
  • yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.
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