10-letter words containing j
- joss house — a Chinese temple for idol worship.
- joss stick — a slender stick of a dried, fragrant paste, burned by the Chinese as incense before a joss.
- jostlement — Crowding; hustling.
- jotunnheim — the home of the giants
- jouissance — Physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy.
- journalese — a manner of writing or speaking characterized by clichés, occasional neologism, archness, sensationalizing adjectives, unusual or faulty syntax, etc., used by some journalists, especially certain columnists, and regarded as typical journalistic style.
- journaling — The activity of keeping a diary, also known as journal.
- journalise — Alternative spelling of journalize.
- journalism — the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business.
- journalist — a person who practices the occupation or profession of journalism.
- journalize — to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.
- journeying — a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
- journeyman — a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
- journeymen — a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
- jouy print — toile de Jouy.
- jouysaunce — joy
- jovialness — endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship: a wonderfully jovial host.
- jovysaunce — joy
- joy buzzer — a device used for a practical joke with a handshake, concealed in the palm of the hand and producing a buzzing sound and an unpleasant vibrating sensation when it is pressed against the victim's hand.
- joy-popper — Slang. to take a narcotic drug occasionally, but without being an addict.
- joyfulness — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
- joyousness — The state of being joyous.
- juan peron — Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- juana diaz — a city in S Puerto Rico, NE of Ponce.
- juantorena — Alberto (alˈβɛrto). born 1951, Cuban runner: won the 400 metres and the 800 metres in the 1976 Olympic Games
- jubbulpore — Jabalpur.
- jubilantly — With jubilation or triumph.
- jubilarian — a person who celebrates or has celebrated a jubilee, as a nun observing 25 or more years of religious life.
- jubilating — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- jubilation — a feeling of or the expression of joy or exultation: Their jubilation subsided when they lost the second game.
- jubilatory — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- judas tree — a purple-flowered Eurasian tree, Cercis siliquastrum, of the legume family, supposed to be the kind upon which Judas hanged himself.
- judder bar — a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to reduce speeding
- judge-made — established by a court, as by an application or interpretation of a law that is allegedly contrary to the intentions of the enacting body or by a decision that does not rest on legislation.
- judgements — an act or instance of judging.
- judgeships — Plural form of judgeship.
- judgmental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- judication — the act of judging
- judicative — having ability to judge; judging: the judicative faculty.
- judicatory — of or relating to judgment or the administration of justice; judiciary: judicatory power.
- judicature — the administration of justice, as by judges or courts.
- judiciable — judicable.
- judicially — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- jugal bone — (in humans) cheekbone (def 1).
- jugendstil — art nouveau as practiced in German-speaking countries.
- juggernaut — (often lowercase) any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team.
- jugglingly — in a juggling or manipulative manner
- jugoslavia — formerly, a federal republic in S Europe: since 1992 comprised of Serbia and Montenegro; disbanded into independent countries in 2006. 39,449 sq. mi. (102,173 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
- juiceheads — Plural form of juicehead.
- juke house — a cheap roadhouse.