12-letter words containing j
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- jeffrey pine — a conifer, Pinus jeffreyi, of high mountains in the western U.S., having long needles, large cones, and aromatic bark.
- jelenia gora — a city in SW Poland, a historic mining center.
- jelly fungus — any of various fungi of the order Tremellales, distinguished by gelatinous basidiocarp.
- jenghis khan — Genghis Khan.
- jenghiz khan — Genghis Khan
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardizing — Present participle of jeopardize.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- jerry-rigged — jury-rig.
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- jesse window — a church window having a representation of the tree of Jesse.
- jesus christ — Jesus (def 1).
- jesus freaks — 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 aircraft — A jet aircraft is an aircraft that is powered by one or more jet engines.
- jet airplane — jet plane.
- jettisonable — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- jeu d'esprit — a witticism.
- jiaozhou bay — an inlet of the Yellow Sea in NE China, in SE Shandong province
- jickajogging — the act of moving in a jogging or rolling motion
- jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
- jingle shell — any of several marine, bivalve mollusks of the genus Anomia, having a thin, pearly shell with a conspicuous hole or notch near the hinge of the lower valve.
- jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
- jk flip-flop — (hardware) An edge triggered SR flip-flop with extra logic such that only one of the R and S inputs is enabled at any time. This prevents a race condition which can occur when both inputs of an RS flip-flop are active at the same time. In a JK flip-flop the R and S inputs are renamed J and K. The set input (J) is only enabled when the flip-flop is reset and K when it is set. If both J and K inputs are held active then the outputs will change ("togle") on each falling edge of the clock. JK flip-flops can be used to build a binary counter with a reset input.
- job analysis — a detailed study of the requirements necessary to complete a job, taking into consideration chiefly the order of operation, material and machinery needed, and the necessary qualifications of workers.
- job creation — the process by which the number of jobs in an area, organization, etc is increased
- job printing — commercial printing of such items as letterheads, circulars, invitations, etc.
- job rotation — the practice of transferring an employee from one work station or activity to another during the working day in order to add variety to a job: often used in assembly line work
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- jodo shinshu — the largest sect of Jodo, stressing simple trust rather than ritual as the means to salvation.
- jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
- joe six-pack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- joe-pye weed — Also called purple boneset. a tall composite weed, Eupatorium purpureum, of North America, having clusters of pinkish or purple flowers.
- jogging shoe — an athletic shoe designed to be worn while jogging.
- jogging suit — an outfit consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt, used while exercising or as sportswear.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- john bircher — Bircher.
- john gilmore — (person) A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
- john hancock — Herbert Jeffrey ("Herbie") born 1940, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- john mauchly — (person) /jon W mok'*-lee/ (rhymes with "broccoli") Dr. John W. Mauchly, one of the developers of ENIAC.
- john paul ii — (Karol Wojtyla) 1920–2005, Polish ecclesiastic: pope 1978–2005.
- johnny house — Johnny (def 3).
- johnson city — a city in NE Tennessee.
- johnsongrass — a tall perennial sorghum widely used as forage
- johor baharu — a city in S Malaysia, near Singapore.
- johore bahru — a city in and the capital of Johore state, Malaysia, in the S part.
- joint author — a person who shares the writing of a book, article, etc, with another
- joint estate — an estate owned by two or more people with the same rights of possession
- joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.