14-letter words containing j
- objet de vertu — an object of virtu
- overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
- overbejewelled — wearing an excessive amount of jewellery, or excessively decorated
- owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
- parachute jump — leaping from aircraft with a parachute
- parajournalism — news reportage that strongly reflects the point of view of the writer or editor or that uses techniques not practiced in conventional journalism.
- petit dejeuner — breakfast.
- pitjantjatjara — an Aboriginal people of the desert area of South Australia
- poetic justice — an ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.
- practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
- project athena — (project) A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
- project leader — leader of a task or programme
- projectisation — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
- projectization — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
- propjet engine — turbo-propeller engine.
- purkinje fiber — any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the ventricles.
- pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
- quasi-judicial — noting, pertaining to, or exercising powers or functions that resemble those of a court or a judge: a quasi-judicial agency.
- readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
- reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
- reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
- rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
- rejuvenescence — becoming young again.
- relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
- res adjudicata — res judicata.
- resojet engine — a type of pulsejet engine that burns a continuous flow of fuel but delivers a pulsating thrust due to the resonance of shock waves traveling through it.
- return journey — the journey back from a destination
- rio de janeiro — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
- san jose scale — a scale insect, Aspidiotus perniciosus, that is highly destructive to fruit trees and shrubs throughout the U.S.
- self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
- self-enjoyment — the act of enjoying.
- semi-objective — 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.
- semimajor axis — Geometry. one half the major axis of an ellipse.
- sergeant major — U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative assistant in a unit headquarters.
- serra junipero — Miguel José [mee-gel haw-se] /miˈgɛl hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1713–84, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians in California and Mexico.
- shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
- silver jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- siraj-ud-daula — 1728?–57, nawab of Bengal 1756–57.
- smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
- spinning jenny — an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously.
- squeezed joint — a joint between two members cemented or glued together under pressure.
- st. john perse — (pseud. of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887-1975; Fr. diplomat & poet
- st. john's day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
- st. john's eve — Midsummer Eve.
- st.-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- stadium jacket — an insulated, parkalike jacket that reaches to the mid thigh or the knees and often has a drawstring around the bottom edge, worn outdoors in cold weather.
- straight joint — a vertical joint in brickwork that is directly above a vertical joint in the course below
- straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
- street justice — the punishment given by members of the public to people regarded as criminals or wrongdoers
- stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer