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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
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