12-letter words containing n, a, j, i
- jenghis khan — Genghis Khan.
- jenghiz khan — Genghis Khan
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardizing — Present participle of jeopardize.
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- jet airplane — jet plane.
- jettisonable — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- jickajogging — the act of moving in a jogging or rolling motion
- job analysis — a detailed study of the requirements necessary to complete a job, taking into consideration chiefly the order of operation, material and machinery needed, and the necessary qualifications of workers.
- job creation — the process by which the number of jobs in an area, organization, etc is increased
- job rotation — the practice of transferring an employee from one work station or activity to another during the working day in order to add variety to a job: often used in assembly line work
- john paul ii — (Karol Wojtyla) 1920–2005, Polish ecclesiastic: pope 1978–2005.
- joint author — a person who shares the writing of a book, article, etc, with another
- joint estate — an estate owned by two or more people with the same rights of possession
- joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- joint tenant — one of two or more persons who hold property in joint tenancy.
- joking apart — seriously: said to recall a discussion to seriousness after there has been joking
- jordan river — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- juan hidalgo — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
- juggling act — If you say that a situation is a juggling act, you mean that someone is trying to do two or more things at once, and that they are finding it difficult to do those things properly.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- jumpstations — Plural form of jumpstation.
- junior class — the penultimate class in high school or college
- jury-packing — the practice of contriving that the majority of those chosen for a jury will be persons likely to have partialities affecting a particular case.
- just in case — if it should happen that
- justinian ii — 669–711 ad, Byzantine emperor (685–95, 705–11). Banished (695) after a revolt against his oppressive rule, he regained the throne with the help of the Bulgars. He was killed in a second revolt
- justinianian — of or relating to Justinian I or the Byzantine dynasty (a.d. 518–610) named after him.
- kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
- kinchinjunga — Kanchenjunga.
- lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
- majesticness — The quality of being majestic.
- majoritarian — of, relating to, or constituting a majority: majoritarian democracy.
- mexican jade — Mexican onyx artificially colored green.
- misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- nailer joist — a steel joist having a permanently attached nailing strip, as for securing wooden flooring.
- ojo caliente — a hot spring.
- orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
- pipe jacking — a method of laying underground pipelines by assembling the pipes at the foot of an access shaft and pushing them through the ground
- rabbet joint — a joint between rabbeted parts.
- ranjit singh — ("Lion of the Punjab") 1780–1839, Indian maharaja: founder of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab.
- reaching jib — genoa.
- rejuvenating — making young again
- rejuvenation — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- rejuvenative — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.