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20-letter words containing j, r, o

  • add insult to injury — to make an unfair or unacceptable situation even worse
  • amelia jenks bloomerAmelia Jenks [jengks] /dʒɛŋks/ (Show IPA), 1818–94, U.S. social reformer and women's-rights leader.
  • ballistic trajectory — the path of an unpowered object, as a missile, moving only under the influence of gravity and possibly atmospheric friction and with its surface providing no significant lift to alter the course of flight.
  • basic object adapter — (architecture)   (BOA) Part of the CORBA architecture.
  • be for the high jump — to be liable to receive a severe reprimand or punishment
  • broadcast journalism — journalism as practiced in radio and television.
  • checkbook journalism — the practice of paying for a news story or an interview, or for exclusive broadcasting or publishing rights.
  • codex juris canonici — the official code of canon law in force in the Roman Catholic Church; introduced in 1918 and revised in 1983
  • comparative judgment — any judgment about whether there is a difference between two or more stimuli
  • conformal projection — a map projection in which angles formed by lines are preserved: a map made using this projection preserves the shape of any small area.
  • conservative judaism — a movement reacting against the radicalism of Reform Judaism, rejecting extreme change and advocating moderate relaxations of traditional Jewish law, by an extension of the process by which its adherents claim traditional Orthodox Judaism evolved
  • corpus juris civilis — the body of Roman or civil law consolidated by Justinian in the 6th century ad. It consists of four parts, the Institutes, Digest, Code, and Novels
  • court of st. james's — the British royal court: so called from St. James's Palace, London, the former scene of royal receptions.
  • declaratory judgment — a judgment that merely decides the rights of parties in a given transaction, situation, or dispute but does not order any action or award damages.
  • district court judge — a judge presiding over a lower court
  • floodlight projector — a powerful lamp having a reflector curved to produce a floodlight.
  • fridtjof nansen land — Franz Josef Land.
  • human genome project — a federally funded U.S. scientific project to identify both the genes and the entire sequence of DNA base pairs that make up the human genome.
  • hypodermic injection — the injection of a medicine or drug under the skin
  • inferior conjunction — the alignment of an inferior planet between the sun and the earth.
  • inventory adjustment — Inventory adjustments are increases or decreases made in inventory to account for theft, loss, breakages, and errors in the amount or number of items received.
  • isometric projection — a type of axonometric projection in which the object is shown with its three principal axes all equally tilted from the plane of viewing, with two of them usually tilted 30 degrees upward from the horizontal
  • j robert oppenheimer — J(ulius) Robert, 1904–67, U.S. nuclear physicist.
  • jacopo della quercia — Jacopo Della [yah-kaw-paw del-lah] /ˈyɑ kɔ pɔ ˌdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA), 1374?–1438, Italian sculptor.
  • james prescott jouleJames Prescott, 1818–89, English physicist.
  • japanese pagoda tree — pagoda tree.
  • jasper national park — a national park in the Canadian Rockies in W Alberta, in SW Canada.
  • jerez de la frontera — a town in SW Spain: famous for the making of sherry. Pop: 191 002 (2003 est)
  • jerk someone's chain — to tease, mislead, or harass someone
  • job control language — a language used to construct statements that identify a particular job to be run and specify the job's requirements to the operating system under which it will run. Abbreviation: JCL.
  • john o'groat's house — the northern tip of Scotland, near Duncansby Head, NE Caithness, traditionally thought of as the northernmost point of Britain: from Land's End to John o'Groat's House.
  • joint life insurance — life insurance covering two or more persons, the benefits of which are paid after the first person dies.
  • jordan curve theorem — the theorem that the complement of a simple closed curve can be expressed as the union of two disjoint sets, each having as boundary the given curve.
  • joseph of arimathaea — a member of the Sanhedrin who placed the body of Jesus in the tomb. Matt. 27:57–60; Mark 15:43.
  • judicial proceedings — any action involving or carried out by a court of law
  • junior featherweight — a boxer weighing up to 122 pounds (54.9 kg), between bantamweight and featherweight.
  • keratoconjunctivitis — inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva.
  • mollweide projection — homolographic projection.
  • nonaccidental injury — damage, such as a bruise, burn, or fracture, deliberately inflicted on a child or an old person
  • object role modeling — (programming)   (ORM) A conceptual modelling approach that pictures the application world as a set of objects that play roles (parts in relationships, which may be unary, binary or higher order). ORM provides both graphical and textual languages that enable models to be expressed naturally. For data modelling purposes, its graphical language is more expressive than ER or UML.
  • objective relativism — the doctrine that knowledge of real objects is relative to the individual.
  • off-the-job training — training which is carried out away from your normal place of work
  • pedro juan caballero — a city in E central Paraguay.
  • polyconic projection — a conic projection in which the parallels are arcs of circles that are not concentric but are equally spaced along the central straight meridian, all other meridians being curves equally spaced along the parallels.
  • quasi-stellar object — quasar. Abbreviation: QSO.
  • relative conjunction — a conjunction that introduces a relative clause
  • snows of kilimanjaro — a short story (1936) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • staff sergeant major — a noncommissioned officer equivalent in rank to a command sergeant major but having no command responsibility.
  • summary jurisdiction — the right a court has to adjudicate immediately upon some matter arising during its proceedings
  • superior conjunction — the alignment of an inferior planet and the sun in which the planet is at the far side of the sun from the earth.

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