11-letter words containing j
- jeopardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeopardize.
- jerk around — If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
- jerome kern — Jerome (David) 1885–1945, U.S. composer.
- jerry-build — to build cheaply and flimsily.
- jerry-built — built cheaply and flimsily.
- jersey city — a seaport in NE New Jersey, opposite New York City.
- jersey pine — Virginia pine.
- jesuit ware — Chinese porcelain of the early 18th century, decorated with Christian motifs, usually in black and gold on a white background.
- jesus freak — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
- jet fighter — aeronautics
- jet-setting — You use jet-setting to describe people who are rich and successful and who have a luxurious lifestyle.
- jettisoning — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- jeu de mots — a pun.
- jeune fille — a girl or young woman.
- jew-baiting — active anti-Semitism.
- jew-s--harp — (sometimes lowercase) a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a lyre-shaped metal frame containing a metal tongue, which is plucked while the frame is held in the teeth, the vibrations causing twanging tones.
- jewelfishes — Plural form of jewelfish.
- jewelleries — articles of gold, silver, precious stones, etc., for personal adornment.
- jewelry box — case for valuable accessories
- jiang zemin — born 1926, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1989–2002, president of China 1993–2003.
- jiggermasts — Plural form of jiggermast.
- jim crowism — Jim Crow (def 1).
- jimson weed — a coarse, rank-smelling weed, Datura stramonium, of the nightshade family, having oaklike, poisonous leaves and tubular white or lavender flowers.
- jimsonweeds — Plural form of jimsonweed.
- jingle bell — a hollow, round, metal bell with a metal ball inside, which makes a jingling sound when it moves: jingle bells on a horse and sleigh.
- jitteriness — extremely tense and nervous; jumpy: He's very jittery about the medical checkup.
- jnana-marga — any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)
- joan of arc — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- joao pessoa — a state in E Brazil. 21,760 sq. mi. (56,360 sq. km). Capital: João Pessoa.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- job hunting — the activity of searching for employment
- job printer — a printer who does letterheads, invoices, announcements, and other miscellaneous work, as distinguished from one who works solely on books, periodicals, etc.
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- job vacancy — a job which has not been filled
- job's-tears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- joblessness — without a job.
- jockey club — an association for the regulation and promotion of thoroughbred horse racing, usually composed of racing officials and thoroughbred owners at a specific racetrack or in a particular region.
- jocoserious — Simultaneously jocular and serious; mixing mirth with serious matters.
- joe college — a personification of a typical male U.S. college student, especially in the 1930s.
- joe sixpack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- joel barlow — Joel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
- joey hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- joggle post — a wooden king post having notches or raised areas for receiving and supporting the feet of struts.
- john calvin — John (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin) 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.
- john dalton — John, 1766–1844, English chemist and physicist.
- john glover — John, 1732–97, American general.
- john motley — John Lothrop [loh-thruh p] /ˈloʊ θrəp/ (Show IPA), 1814–77, U.S. historian and diplomat.
- john paul i — (Albino Luciani) 1912–78, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1978.
- john scopes — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- john sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.