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13-letter words containing j, r, o

  • johnson grass — a sorghum, Sorghum halepense, that spreads by creeping rhizomes, grown for fodder.
  • johore strait — a narrow strait between Malaya and Singapore Island
  • joie de vivre — a delight in being alive; keen, carefree enjoyment of living.
  • joint honours — an honours university degree in which a student studies two separate subjects, as opposed to a single subject
  • joint manager — sb who shares authority and responsibility for sth
  • joint partner — a person who shares the ownership of a firm or business equally with another or others
  • joint venture — business: joint enterprise
  • joint-venture — to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.
  • jointer plane — a plane for truing the edges of boards, planing large surfaces, etc.
  • jordan almond — a large, hard-shelled, Spanish almond used especially in confectionery.
  • jordan engine — a machine for beating and refining pulp, used in manufacturing certain grades of paper.
  • joseph crater — Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
  • joseph hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
  • joseph lister — Joseph, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis [lahym ree-jis] /laɪm ˈri dʒɪs/ (Show IPA), 1827–1912, English surgeon: founder of modern antiseptic surgery.
  • joseph ritter — Joseph Elmer, 1891–1967, U.S. cardinal.
  • journal entry — sth written in a diary
  • journeyperson — A journeyman or journeywoman.
  • joyner-kersee — Jacqueline ("Jackie") born 1962, U.S. track and field athlete.
  • juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
  • junior doctor — a doctor in postgraduate training
  • junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
  • junior rating — a military rank for non-officer personnel in the navy
  • junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
  • jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
  • jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
  • jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
  • justice court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
  • justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
  • kolding fjord — an inlet of the Little Belt at the head of which is Kolding
  • loss adjuster — A loss adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money should be paid to a person making a claim.
  • major barbara — a comedy (1905) by G. B. Shaw.
  • major element — any chemical found in great quantity in the rocks of the earth's crust. Compare minor element (def 1).
  • major general — a military officer ranking next below a lieutenant general and next above a brigadier general.
  • major leaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
  • major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
  • major penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player for five minutes from play, no substitute for the player being permitted.
  • major premise — Logic. an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.
  • major prophet — any of a group of Old Testament prophets, including Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.
  • major release — (programming)   A release of a piece of software which is not merely a revision or a bug fix release but which contains substantial changes (e.g., an overhaul of the interface, change in compatibility). Traditionally, major releases are numbered as X.0; for example, WordPerfect 6.0 is a major release, significantly different from any previous version; whereas WordPerfect 6.1 has only minor changes, and is, thus, only a revision. See also major delivery.
  • major-leaguer — a member of a major-league team.
  • majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
  • mangrove jack — a predatory food and game fish, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, of Australian rivers and tidal creeks dominated by mangroves
  • misconjecture — the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
  • mojave desert — a desert in S California: part of the Great Basin. About 15,000 sq. mi. (38,850 sq. km).
  • monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
  • mortise joint — any of various joints between two pieces of timber or the like in which a tenon is housed in or secured to a mortise.
  • night journey — the journey in which Muhammad was carried from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascended into heaven.
  • non-juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
  • nonpejorative — Not pejorative.
  • nonprejudiced — Not prejudiced.
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