13-letter words containing j, u, e
- jeune premier — the male juvenile lead in a play or movie.
- jigsaw puzzle — Also called picture puzzle. a set of irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard, wood, or the like that form a picture or design when fitted together.
- jitterbugging — Present participle of jitterbug.
- joint venture — business: joint enterprise
- joint-venture — to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.
- journal entry — sth written in a diary
- journeyperson — A journeyman or journeywoman.
- juan de onate — Juan de [hwahn de] /ʰwɑn dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1550?–1624, Spanish explorer who colonized New Mexico.
- judah ha-levi — (Judah ben Samuel Halevi) 1085–1140, Spanish rabbi, physician, poet, and philosopher.
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- judges' rules — (in English law, formerly) a set of rules, not legally binding, governing the behaviour of police towards suspects, as in administering a caution to a person under arrest
- judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- judgment debt — Law. a debt established or confirmed by decree of a court of law.
- judgment note — Law. a note that expressly authorizes a creditor, in case of default, to seek a judgment in court without notifying the debtor.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- judicial sale — a forced sale of property authorized or required by a court of law in order to satisfy a debt etc
- judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
- juggling eggs — Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel "The Mote in God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." See also hack mode.
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
- julius caesar — Gaius Julius Caesar.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- jumping genes — transposon.
- jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
- 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.
- juniper berry — the berrylike cone of a juniper.
- jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
- just a minute — wait, stop
- just a moment — an expression requesting the hearer to wait or pause for a brief period of time
- just the same — identical with what is about to be or has just been mentioned: This street is the same one we were on yesterday.
- justice court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
- justificative — Justificatory.
- kangchenjunga — a mountain on the border between Nepal and Sikkim, in the Himalayas: the third highest mountain in the world. Height: 8598 m (28 208 ft)
- knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
- last judgment — judgment (def 8).
- 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.
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- major leaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
- 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
- maladjustment — bad or unsatisfactory adjustment.
- measuring jug — a graduated jug used in cooking to measure ingredients
- misadjustment — Wrong or unsuitable adjustment.
- misconjecture — the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
- mutt and jeff — a very short and a very tall person who are paired as companions, teammates, or associates.
- new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city