9-letter words containing j, o, s
- jock scot — an artificial fly having a yellow floss body, black silk tag, scarlet and yellow tail, wings of scarlet and of jungle cock feathers spotted with yellow and gray, and hackle of guinea fowl and grouse feathers.
- jockeyish — resembling a jockey
- jockeyism — the skills and practices of jockeys
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- joe louis — Joe (Joseph Louis Barrow) 1914–81, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1937–49.
- johnboats — Plural form of johnboat.
- johnstown — a city in SW Pennsylvania: disastrous flood 1889.
- jointings — Plural form of jointing.
- jointless — without a joint; lacking a joint.
- jointness — The state or quality of being joint.
- jointress — a woman on whom a jointure has been settled.
- jointures — Plural form of jointure.
- jokesmith — (jocular) A person who devises jokes.
- jokesters — Plural form of jokester.
- jollifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jollify.
- jolliness — in good spirits; lively; merry: In a moment he was as jolly as ever.
- jollities — jolly or merry mood, condition, or activity; gaiety.
- jonesboro — a city in NE Arkansas.
- jonestown — a former settlement in N Guyana, NW of Georgetown: site of agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the People's Temple; mass suicide and murder 1978.
- jongleurs — Plural form of jongleur.
- jonsonian — Ben, 1573?–1637, English dramatist and poet.
- josef suk — Josef [yaw-zef] /ˈyɔ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1874–1935, Czech composer and violinist.
- joseph ii — 1741–90, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1765–90 (son of Francis I; brother of Leopold II and Marie Antoinette).
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- josephson — Brian David, born 1940, British physicist: Nobel Prize 1973.
- joshingly — In a joshing manner; teasingly.
- jouisance — joy; delight
- jowliness — the feature of having large jowls or a prominent jaw
- joy-stick — Informal. the control stick of an airplane, tank, or other vehicle.
- joylessly — In a joyless manner.
- joyriders — Plural form of joyrider.
- joysticks — Plural form of joystick.
- judicious — using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic: judicious use of one's money.
- jukeboxes — Plural form of jukebox.
- jumentous — Of, relating to, or smelling like horse urine.
- jump shot — a shot with one or both hands in which a player leaps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket at the moment of reaching the highest point of the leap.
- junctions — Plural form of junction.
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- junk shot — a procedure used for stemming the flow of oil from a leaking well in which debris (such as shredded tyres, golf balls, etc) is pumped into the well at high pressure
- junoesque — (of a woman) stately; regal.
- justicoat — justaucorps.
- juvenoids — Plural form of juvenoid.
- juxtapose — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- kinkajous — Plural form of kinkajou.
- mason jar — a glass jar with a wide mouth and an airtight screw top, much used in home canning.
- mom jeans — Informal. unstylish women's jeans.
- moose jaw — a city in S Saskatchewan, in SW Canada.
- mot juste — the exact, appropriate word.
- nonjurors — Plural form of nonjuror.
- objectors — Plural form of objector.