12-letter words containing j, o, s
- johnny house — Johnny (def 3).
- johnson city — a city in NE Tennessee.
- johnsongrass — a tall perennial sorghum widely used as forage
- joint estate — an estate owned by two or more people with the same rights of possession
- joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- jumpstations — Plural form of jumpstation.
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- junior class — the penultimate class in high school or college
- juris doctor — lawyer's degree
- jurisconsult — Roman and Civil Law. a person authorized to give legal advice.
- jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- jury process — the writ used to summon jurors
- just the job — If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
- major orders — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
- mips project — Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
- misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- morris jesup — Cape, a cape of N Greenland, on the Arctic Ocean, 440 miles (710 km) from the North Pole: northernmost land point in the world.
- mosbolletjie — (South Africa) Dough leavened with the must of grapes used for making rusks.
- mouse jockey — a person whose job mainly involves working with computers, esp for web and graphic design
- nailer joist — a steel joist having a permanently attached nailing strip, as for securing wooden flooring.
- nordenskjold — Baron Nils Adolf Erik [nils ah-dawlf ey-rik] /nɪls ˈɑ dɔlf ˈeɪ rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1832–1901, Swedish arctic explorer, geographer, and geologist; born in Finland.
- not just any — If you say that someone or something is not just any person or thing, you mean that they are special in some way.
- object glass — objective (def 3).
- over-jealous — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
- prester john — a legendary Christian monk and potentate of the Middle Ages, supposed to have had a kingdom in some remote part of Asia or Africa and associated with fabulous narratives of travel.
- pro-japanese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Japan, its people, or their language.
- rejectionist — an Arab leader or country that opposes accommodation or compromise in negotiations with Israel.
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- rustic joint — a joint between stones recessed from the faces between sunken drafts or bevels.
- saddle joint — (on a sill, coping, or the like) a vertical joint raised above the level of the washes on each side.
- saint jerome — Saint (Eusebius Hieronymus) a.d. c340–420, Christian ascetic and Biblical scholar: chief preparer of the Vulgate version of the Bible.
- saint john's — an island state comprising Antigua and two smaller islands: a member of the former West Indies Associated States; formerly a British crown colony; gained independence 1981. 171 sq. mi. (442 sq. km). Capital: St. John's.
- saint joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
- scissor jump — a type of jump involving a scissor-like movement of the legs
- sea of japan — the sea between mainland Asia and Japan
- show jumping — sport: horseriding event
- sloppy joe's — a sandwich of ground beef cooked in a spicy tomato or barbecue sauce and usually served on a bun.
- smoke jumper — an employee of the forest service parachuted to strategic spots in fighting forest fires
- socket joint — a joint in which the rounded end of one part fits into the cavity of another part
- soup du jour — the soup featured by a restaurant on a particular day.
- sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
- stephen jobs — (person) Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955). The co-founder and ex-president of Apple Computer, leader of the team that produced the Macintosh. In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a demonstration of Smalltalk at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He and other Apple employees were "very impressed with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design". The first Macintosh was released in January 1984. Jobs described it as insanely great. Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded Next, Inc.. In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought NeXT. See also lithium lick, Mathematica.
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- surrejoinder — a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's rejoinder.