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11-letter words containing j

  • subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
  • subjectable — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • subjectless — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
  • subjudicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
  • subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • subjunction — an act of subjoining.
  • subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
  • superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
  • take a joke — have a sense of humour
  • tear-jerker — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
  • tearjerking — a pathetic story, play, movie, or the like; an excessively sentimental tale.
  • the bejesus — (intensifier) used in such phrases as beat the bejesus out of, scare the bejesus out of, etc
  • the javelin — the event or sport of throwing the javelin
  • the jitters — nervousness and anxiety
  • the jobless — those who are unemployed
  • thingamajig — a gadget or other thing for which the speaker does not know or has forgotten the name.
  • tobacco jar — a container formerly used for storing tobacco and keeping it fresh
  • touch judge — one of the two linesmen in rugby
  • traffic jam — jam1 (def 16).
  • transjordan — an area east of the Jordan River, in SW Asia: a British mandate (1921–23); an emirate (1923–49); now the major part of the kingdom of Jordan.
  • trial judge — the judge in a trial
  • triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
  • trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
  • tukey, john — John Tukey
  • unenjoyable — giving or capable of giving joy or pleasure: a very enjoyable film.
  • unjaundiced — devoid of distorted or prejudiced views.
  • unjudgeable — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
  • unjustified — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
  • unobjective — 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.
  • unprojected — not projected or planned for
  • unrejoicing — not joyful; sad
  • unsubjected — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
  • variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
  • well-judged — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
  • west jordan — a town in N central Utah.
  • whiskeyjack — (US) Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
  • william joy — (person)   (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was also one of the people at the University of California at Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. He also wrote a book on Unix. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is still (1997) Vice-President of Research. Among his many projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File System and the SPARC architechture. See also dinosaur.
  • windjammers — Plural form of windjammer.
  • windjamming — Excessive talking; loquaciousness.
  • wrist joint — articulation between arm and hand
  • xiang jiang — a river in S China, flowing N to Lake Dongting. 715 miles (1150 km) long.
  • ye jianying — 1898–1986, Chinese marshal and Communist leader: defense minister 1971–78.
  • yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.
  • zhangjiakou — a city in NW Hebei province, in NE China: capital of the former Qahar province.
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