10-letter words containing j
- enjambment — (in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
- enjoinment — (obsolete) A command; an authoritative admonition.
- enjoyments — Plural form of enjoyment.
- fish joint — a connection formed by fishplates at the meeting point of two rails, beams, etc, as on a railway
- flying jib — the outer or outermost of two or more jibs, set well above the jib boom.
- forejudged — Simple past tense and past participle of forejudge.
- frabjously — In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.
- ginger jar — a Chinese ceramic jar having a wide mouth, a globular body, and a dome-shaped cover.
- grand jete — a jump or jeté, preceded by a grand battement or high kick, in which a dancer leaps from one leg and lands on the other.
- grand jury — a jury, at common law, of 12 to 23 persons, designated to inquire into alleged violations of the law in order to ascertain whether the evidence is sufficient to warrant trial.
- great ajax — Ajax (def 1).
- guanajuato — a state in central Mexico. 11,805 sq. mi. (30,575 sq. km).
- gujranwala — a city in NE Pakistan.
- hall-jones — Sir William. 1851–1936, New Zealand statesman, born in England: prime minister of New Zealand (1906)
- hallelujah — an exclamation of “hallelujah!”.
- hary janos — an opera (1926) by Zoltán Kodály.
- high jinks — boisterous celebration or merrymaking; unrestrained fun: The city is full of conventioneers indulging in their usual high jinks.
- high-jinks — boisterous celebration or merrymaking; unrestrained fun: The city is full of conventioneers indulging in their usual high jinks.
- highjacker — a person who hijacks.
- hijackings — Plural form of hijacking.
- hob-jobber — someone who does casual work or various small unskilled jobs
- ijsselmeer — a lake in the NW Netherlands: created by the diking of the Zuider Zee. 465 sq. mi. (1204 sq. km).
- ike jacket — Eisenhower jacket.
- ill-judged — injudicious; unwise.
- in a jiffy — very quickly, in an instant
- injectable — capable of being injected.
- injectible — Alternative form of injectable.
- injections — Plural form of injection.
- injudicial — lacking judgement; injudicious
- injunction — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
- injunctive — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
- injustices — the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
- inner join — (database) (Commonly "join", but see also "outer join") A relational database operation which selects rows from two tables such that the value in one column of the first table also appears in a certain column of the second table. An example in SQL: select * from A, B where A.x = B.y The column names (x and y in this example) are often, but not necessarily, the same.
- inside job — a crime committed by or in collusion with a person or persons closely associated with the victim: The robbery seemed an inside job, because there was no evidence of forced entry.
- interjects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interject.
- interjoist — a space between two joists.
- interjudge — Between judges.
- introjects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of introject.
- irian jaya — the W part of the island of New Guinea, formerly a Dutch territory: a province of Indonesia since 1963. About 159,000 sq. mi. (411,810 sq. km). Capital: Jayapura.
- iron-jawed — having a jaw of or like iron: an iron-jawed press; an iron-jawed fighter.
- j particle — an early name for the J/psi particle.
- j-bar lift — a ski lift having a J -shaped bar against which a skier leans in an upright position while being pulled up the slope.
- jabberings — Plural form of jabbering.
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jaborandis — Plural form of jaborandi.
- jaboticaba — an evergreen tree, Myrciaria cauliflora, of the Myrtle family, native to southern Brazil, bearing on the trunk small clusters of edible, grapelike fruit.
- jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
- jacarandas — Plural form of jacaranda.
- jack benny — Jack (Benjamin Kubelsky) 1894–1974, U.S. comedian.
- jack block — a block used in raising or lowering a topgallant yard.