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14-letter words containing j, r, o

  • junior varsity — a university, college, or school team that consists of players who lack the qualifications or skill necessary for the varsity and compete against other teams of similar composition or ability.
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
  • major delivery — (programming)   A (chiefly British) synonym for major release. E.g, the ninth major release of a piece of software might be called MD9. The release notation would be "v9.0".
  • major mitchell — an Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe leadbeateri, with a white-and-pink plumage
  • major prophets — theology
  • major seminary — a Roman Catholic theological college devoted to training for the priesthood and usually offering a six-year program emphasizing philosophy and theology.
  • map projection — a projecting or protruding part. Synonyms: overhang, protrusion, jut.
  • matteo bojardo — Matteo Maria [mah-tey-oh muh-ree-uh;; Italian maht-te-aw mah-ree-ah] /mɑˈteɪ oʊ məˈri ə;; Italian mɑtˈtɛ ɔ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), Boiardo, Matteo Maria.
  • michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
  • microinjection — injection performed under a microscope, especially of a solution or gene transplant into a cell or cell part.
  • microprojector — a microscope equipped with a prism or mirror to project a greatly magnified image of a microscopic slide onto a distant screen.
  • moral majority — a political action group formed mainly of Protestant fundamentalists to further strict conservative aims, as strong antiabortion laws, the restoration of school prayer, the teaching of creationism in public schools, and the curbing of books and television programs considered antireligious or immoral.
  • new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
  • nexpert object — An expert system.
  • nonprejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
  • object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
  • objet de vertu — an object of virtu
  • overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
  • overbejewelled — wearing an excessive amount of jewellery, or excessively decorated
  • owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
  • parajournalism — news reportage that strongly reflects the point of view of the writer or editor or that uses techniques not practiced in conventional journalism.
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • project athena — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
  • project leader — leader of a task or programme
  • projectisation — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
  • projectization — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
  • propjet engine — turbo-propeller engine.
  • readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
  • rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
  • relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
  • resojet engine — a type of pulsejet engine that burns a continuous flow of fuel but delivers a pulsating thrust due to the resonance of shock waves traveling through it.
  • return journey — the journey back from a destination
  • rio de janeiro — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
  • semimajor axis — Geometry. one half the major axis of an ellipse.
  • sergeant major — U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative assistant in a unit headquarters.
  • serra junipero — Miguel José [mee-gel haw-se] /miˈgɛl hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1713–84, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians in California and Mexico.
  • shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
  • st. john perse — (pseud. of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887-1975; Fr. diplomat & poet
  • st.-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
  • straight joint — a vertical joint in brickwork that is directly above a vertical joint in the course below
  • surajah dowlah — Siraj-ud-daula.
  • sweet marjoram — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Origanum, of the mint family, especially O. majorana (sweet marjoram) having leaves used as seasoning in cooking.
  • telejournalism — the writing and broadcasting of journalism for television
  • telejournalist — a journalist who writes for or broadcasts on television
  • the job market — the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do
  • the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
  • thermojunction — a point of electrical contact between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears, the magnitude of which depends on the temperature of the contact and the nature of the metals
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