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15-letter words containing j, u, t

  • justifiableness — Justifiability.
  • juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
  • juxtapositional — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
  • juxtapositioned — Simple past tense and past participle of juxtaposition.
  • left outer join — outer join
  • natural justice — accepted moral principles
  • navajo mountain — a solitary dome-shaped mountain in SE Utah. 10,388 feet (3168 meters).
  • non-adjudicated — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • non-conjunction — Grammar. any member of a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, as and, because, but, however. any other word or expression of similar function, as in any case.
  • non-disjunction — the failure of chromosomes to separate and segregate into daughter cells at division.
  • nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • nonjudgmentally — not judged or judging on the basis of one's personal standards or opinions: They tried to adopt a nonjudgmental attitude that didn't reflect their own biases. My guidance counselor in high school was sympathetic and nonjudgmental.
  • object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
  • outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
  • petroleum jelly — sticky substance used as lubricant
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • pictorial janus — K. Kahn, Xerox. Visual extension of Janus. Requires Strand88 and a PostScript interpreter.
  • pulsejet engine — a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.
  • quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • quintec-objects — Based on Quintec Prolog (not Quintus). British.
  • re-adjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • self-adjustment — adjustment of oneself or itself, as to the environment.
  • self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
  • sir arthur john — Sir (Arthur) John, 1904–2000, English actor and director.
  • sit in judgment — To sit in judgment means to decide whether or not someone is guilty of doing something wrong.
  • sojourner truth — Sojourner [soh-jur-ner,, soh-jur-ner] /ˈsoʊ dʒɜr nər,, soʊˈdʒɜr nər/ (Show IPA), (Isabella Van Wagener) 1797?–1883, U.S. abolitionist, orator, and women's-rights advocate, born a slave.
  • special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
  • subconjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
  • subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
  • the jury is out — If you say that the jury is out or that the jury is still out on a particular subject, you mean that people in general have still not made a decision or formed an opinion about that subject.
  • to jump for joy — If you say that someone is jumping for joy, you mean that they are very pleased or happy about something.
  • to jump the gun — If you jump the gun, you do something before everyone else or before the proper or right time.
  • turbojet engine — a jet-propulsion engine in which air from the atmosphere is compressed for combustion by a turbine-driven compressor.
  • turnkey project — a complete project usually including many major units of plant completed under one overall contract, such as a chemical works or power station complex
  • universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
  • unobjectionable — causing or tending to cause an objection, disapproval, or protest.
  • unobjectionably — without objection
  • western juniper — a round-headed tree, Juniperus occidentalis, of the western coast of the U.S., having scalelike leaves with a gland on the back and oval, blue-black fruit.
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