11-letter words containing j, r, o
- jocoserious — Simultaneously jocular and serious; mixing mirth with serious matters.
- joel barlow — Joel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
- joey hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- john glover — John, 1732–97, American general.
- john sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- join forces — unite for a common purpose
- joiner door — Shipbuilding. a door of wood or light metal set in a nonwatertight bulkhead.
- jointresses — Plural form of jointress.
- jolly roger — a flag flown by pirates, having the device of a white skull and crossbones on a black field.
- joseph raff — Joseph Joachim, 1822–82, Swiss composer.
- joshua tree — an evergreen tree, Yucca brevifolia, growing in arid or desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having long, twisted branches.
- journal box — a box or housing for a journal and its bearing.
- journalists — Plural form of journalist.
- journalized — Simple past tense and past participle of journalize.
- journalizer — One who records events in a journal.
- journalling — journal
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- juan carlos — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- junior high — lower secondary school
- junior miss — a teenage girl, especially a subdebutante.
- juniper oil — an oil obtained from the berries or wood of the common juniper, Juniperus communis.
- juramentado — (formerly) a Muslim, especially a Moro, bound by an oath to be killed fighting against Christians and other infidels.
- jure divino — by divine law.
- jure humano — by human law.
- justaucorps — a fitted, knee-length coat, characterized by wide turned-back cuffs and stiff flared skirts, worn especially by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- kilimanjaro — a volcanic mountain in N Tanzania: highest peak in Africa. 19,321 feet (5889 meters).
- long jumper — an athlete who does the long jump
- major order — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
- major party — a political party with enough electoral strength to periodically gain control of the government or to effectively oppose the party in power.
- major piece — a queen or rook.
- 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.
- major triad — a triad consisting in root position of a root tone with a major third and a perfect fifth above.
- majoretting — the practice of performing as majorettes
- majoritaire — a member of the majority faction in a political party
- megaproject — A very large public investment project, especially one costing more than one billion US dollars.
- microinject — to inject into a single cell or cell part.
- misjoinders — Plural form of misjoinder.
- miter joint — a joint, especially a butt joint, between two pieces of wood or the like, meeting at an angle in which each of the butting surfaces is cut to an angle equal to half the angle of junction.
- mitre joint — a corner joint formed between two pieces of material, esp wood, by cutting bevels of equal angles at the ends of each piece
- modern jazz — any of various styles of jazz that have evolved since the early 1940s and are marked generally by harmonic and rhythmic complexity, emphasis on chord progressions rather than melody, a tendency to draw on classical forms and styles, and eclectic, allusive melodic tags in improvisation. Also called progressive jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop.
- objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
- objet d'art — an object of artistic worth or curiosity, especially a small object.
- objurgating — Present participle of objurgate.
- objurgation — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- objurgative — That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
- objurgatory — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- orjonikidze — Ordzhonikidze (def 1).
- ouija board — board used by spiritualists
- over-joyous — joyful; happy; jubilant: the joyous sounds of children at play.