10-letter words containing j
- jack chain — a chain having open links in the form of a figure 8, with one loop at right angles to the other.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jack ketch — a public hangman.
- jack kilby — (person) (1924 - 2005-06-20) The electronics engineer who invented the integrated circuit in 1958 at Texas Instruments.
- jack plane — a plane for rough surfacing.
- jack staff — a flagstaff at the bow of a vessel, on which a jack is flown.
- jack towel — a long towel with the ends sewed together, for hanging on a roller.
- jack truss — any of a number of trapezoidal trusses for supporting those areas of a hip roof not beneath the peak or ridge, parallel to the truss or trusses that meet at the peak or ridge.
- jack-knife — a large pocketknife.
- jackanapes — an impertinent, presumptuous person, especially a young man; whippersnapper.
- jackassery — The foolish or obnoxious behaviour of a jackass.
- jackbooted — wearing jackboots.
- jacketless — Without a jacket (coat).
- jackhammer — a portable drill operated by compressed air and used to drill rock, break up pavement, etc.
- jackie tar — jackatar.
- jackknifed — Simple past tense and past participle of jackknife.
- jackknifes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jackknife.
- jackknives — Plural form of jackknife.
- jackrabbit — resembling a jack rabbit, as in suddenness or rapidity of movement: The car made a jackrabbit start when the traffic light turned green.
- jackscrews — Plural form of jackscrew.
- jackshafts — Plural form of jackshaft.
- jacksonian — of or relating to Andrew Jackson, his ideas, the period of his presidency, or the political principles or social values associated with him: Jacksonian democracy.
- jacksonism — the group of political principles or attitudes associated with Andrew Jackson.
- jackstones — Plural form of jackstone.
- jackstraws — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- jacky howe — (formerly) a sleeveless flannel shirt worn by sheep shearers
- jacob riis — Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- jacobethan — noting or pertaining to the architecture of England at the beginning of the 17th century.
- jacobinism — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jacobinize — to imbue with Jacobinism.
- jacqueline — a female given name.
- jacqueries — the revolt of the peasants of northern France against the nobles in 1358.
- jaculation — the act of hurling or throwing
- jaculatory — relating to hurling or throwing
- jade green — either of two minerals, jadeite or nephrite, sometimes green, highly esteemed as an ornamental stone for carvings, jewelry, etc.
- jade plant — a succulent shrub, Crassula argentea, of the stonecrop family, native to southern Africa, having fleshy, oval leaves, often grown as a houseplant.
- jadotville — former name of Likasi.
- jaggedness — The state of being jagged.
- jaguarondi — Alternative spelling of jaguarundi.
- jaguarundi — a long-bodied and long-tailed tropical wildcat, Felis yagouaroundi, having a brownish-gray coat and a second color phase of reddish-brown: now reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
- jail fever — a former name for typhus, once a common disease in jails
- jailbait's — a girl with whom sexual intercourse is punishable as statutory rape because she is under the legal age of consent.
- jailbreaks — Plural form of jailbreak.
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- jam-packed — to fill or pack as tightly or fully as possible: We jam-packed the basket with all kinds of fruit.
- jamahiriya — an Arab socialist state
- james dean — James (Byron) 1931–55, U.S. actor.
- james espy — James Pollard [pol-erd] /ˈpɒl ərd/ (Show IPA), 1785–1860, U.S. meteorologist.
- james otis — Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- james watt — James, 1736–1819, Scottish engineer and inventor.