11-letter words containing m, j
- objectivism — a tendency to lay stress on the objective or external elements of cognition.
- odd-job man — An odd-job man is a man who is paid to do various jobs such as cleaning or repairing things, usually in someone's home.
- on the jump — in a hurry
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- prejudgment — to judge beforehand.
- project mac — (project) A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
- projectment — a design or projection
- quart major — Piquet. a sequence of four cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, and jack (quart major) or king, queen, jack, and ten (quart minor)
- quint major — an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.
- rajahmundry — a city in Andhra Pradesh state, SE India, on the Godavari River.
- rap jumping — the sport of descending high buildings, attached to ropes and a pulley
- red jasmine — a fragrant shrub with fragrant flowers, also known as frangipani
- rejoicement — rejoicing; delight; exultation; gladness; joy
- rijksmuseum — a museum in Amsterdam housing the national art collection of the Netherlands
- show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
- showjumping — horseriding event
- ski jumping — a competitive event, included in the Nordic combined, in which a skier jumps from a ski jump, often traveling 230 to 300 feet (70 to 90 meters) in the air, with scores being based on both the skier's form and the distance of the jump.
- ski-jumping — the sport or activity of (skiers) jumping from a high ramp overhanging a slope
- smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes to forest fires inaccessible to ground crews.
- sojournment — the state of sojourning
- thingamajig — a gadget or other thing for which the speaker does not know or has forgotten the name.
- traffic jam — jam1 (def 16).
- triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
- william joy — (person) (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was also one of the people at the University of California at Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. He also wrote a book on Unix. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is still (1997) Vice-President of Research. Among his many projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File System and the SPARC architechture. See also dinosaur.
- windjammers — Plural form of windjammer.
- windjamming — Excessive talking; loquaciousness.