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11-letter words containing m, j

  • 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)
  • john motley — John Lothrop [loh-thruh p] /ˈloʊ θrəp/ (Show IPA), 1814–77, U.S. historian and diplomat.
  • john thomas — an apostle who demanded proof of Christ's Resurrection. John 20:24–29.
  • judgemental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
  • jumble sale — rummage sale.
  • jump jockey — A jump jockey is someone who rides horses in races such as steeplechases, where the horses have to jump over obstacles.
  • jumpmasters — Plural form of jumpmaster.
  • jumpstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of jumpstart.
  • jumpstation — A site on the World Wide Web containing a collection of hypertext links, usually to pages on a particular topic.
  • junior miss — a teenage girl, especially a subdebutante.
  • junk mailer — an organization that sends junk mail in bulk, especially to solicit business or charitable contributions.
  • junk market — the market for junk bonds
  • juramentado — (formerly) a Muslim, especially a Moro, bound by an oath to be killed fighting against Christians and other infidels.
  • jure humano — by human law.
  • jury system — a legal system used to determine the facts in a lawsuit
  • jus divinum — divine law.
  • jus gentium — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
  • kana-majiri — the standard script of modern Japanese, in which kanji are used for root elements, supplemented by kana for inflections and particles and sometimes for indication of the Japanese pronunciation of kanji.
  • kilimanjaro — a volcanic mountain in N Tanzania: highest peak in Africa. 19,321 feet (5889 meters).
  • kim jong il — 1942–2011, president of North Korea 1994–2011 (son of Kim Il Sung).
  • kim jong-il — 1942–2011, North Korean politician; supreme leader of North Korea (1994–2011): son of Kim Il-sung
  • kim jong-un — born 1984, Korean politician; supreme leader of North Korea from 2011: son of Kim Jong-il
  • lemon juice — citrus juice from lemons
  • lime-juicer — a British sailor.
  • long jumper — an athlete who does the long jump
  • lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
  • major order — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
  • major party — a political party with enough electoral strength to periodically gain control of the government or to effectively oppose the party in power.
  • major piece — a queen or rook.
  • major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
  • major triad — a triad consisting in root position of a root tone with a major third and a perfect fifth above.
  • majoretting — the practice of performing as majorettes
  • majoritaire — a member of the majority faction in a political party
  • maladjusted — badly or unsatisfactorily adjusted, especially in relationship to one's social circumstances, environment, etc.
  • megaproject — A very large public investment project, especially one costing more than one billion US dollars.
  • mess jacket — a short, tailless jacket extending to just below the waist, used for semiformal military occasions and now especially as part of the uniform of waiters, bellhops, etc.
  • microinject — to inject into a single cell or cell part.
  • misadjusted — to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate: to adjust expenses to income.
  • misjoinders — Plural form of misjoinder.
  • misjudgment — An act of misjudging, a mistake in judgment.
  • miter joint — a joint, especially a butt joint, between two pieces of wood or the like, meeting at an angle in which each of the butting surfaces is cut to an angle equal to half the angle of junction.
  • mitered jib — a diagonal-cut jib.
  • mitre joint — a corner joint formed between two pieces of material, esp wood, by cutting bevels of equal angles at the ends of each piece
  • modern jazz — any of various styles of jazz that have evolved since the early 1940s and are marked generally by harmonic and rhythmic complexity, emphasis on chord progressions rather than melody, a tendency to draw on classical forms and styles, and eclectic, allusive melodic tags in improvisation. Also called progressive jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop.
  • most-jutish — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
  • motion jpeg — Moving JPEG
  • moving jpeg — (graphics, compression)   (M-JPEG) A compression technique for moving images which applies JPEG still image compression to each frame of a moving picture sequence. Play-back requires a machine capable of decompressing and displaying each JPEG image quickly enough to sustain the required frame rate of the picture sequence. There is no standard for Moving JPEG as with JPEG, but there are JPEG compression chips (for example see Zoran) which are designed to work at television frame rates and resolutions. See also MPEG and MPEG2.
  • multijugate — (of a leaf) having several pairs of leaflets
  • multijugous — having several pairs, especially pairs of leaflets; multijugate
  • mumbo jumbo — meaningless incantation or ritual.
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