9-letter words containing n, a, j
- jactation — boasting; bragging.
- jadedness — dulled or satiated by overindulgence: a jaded appetite.
- jagannath — Hinduism. a name of Krishna or Vishnu.
- jalandhar — a city in N Punjab, in NW India.
- jalapenos — Plural form of jalapeno.
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jan mayen — a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean between Greenland and Norway: a possession of Norway. 144 sq. mi. (373 sq. km).
- jane cowl — Jane, 1884–1950, U.S. actress and playwright.
- jane eyre — a novel (1847) by Charlotte Brontë.
- janiculum — a ridge near the Tiber in Rome, Italy.
- janissary — (often initial capital letter) a member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century and abolished in 1826 after it revolted against the Sultan.
- janitress — a woman who is a janitor.
- janjaweed — an armed tribal militia group in the Darfur region of western Sudan
- jansenism — the doctrinal system of Cornelis Jansen and his followers, denying free will and maintaining that human nature is corrupt and that Christ died for the elect and not for all humanity.
- januarius — Saint, a.d. 272?–305? Italian ecclesiastic and martyr: patron saint of Naples.
- japan wax — a pale-yellow, waxy, water-insoluble solid obtained from the fruit of certain sumacs, especially Rhus succedanea, native to Japan and China: used chiefly in the manufacture of candles, furniture polishes, and floor waxes.
- japanners — Plural form of japanner.
- japanning — any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces.
- japonicas — Plural form of japonica.
- jargonaut — Someone who uses jargon excessively.
- jargoneer — a user of jargon
- jargoning — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
- jargonise — Alternative form of jargonize.
- jargonish — jargonistic
- jargonist — a user of jargon
- jargonize — to talk jargon or a jargon.
- jarringly — to have a harshly unpleasant or perturbing effect on one's nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The sound of the alarm jarred.
- jasmonate — a hormone that regulates plant growth
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- jaundiced — affected with or colored by or as if by jaundice: jaundiced skin.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- javabeans — (programming) A component architecture for the Java programming language, developed initially by Sun, but now available from several other vendors. JavaBeans components are called "beans". JavaBeans allows developers to create reusable software components that can then be assembled together using visual application builder tools including Sybase's PowerJ, Borland's JBuilder, IBM's Visual Age for Java, SunSoft's Java Workshop and Symantec's Visual Cafe. JavaBeans support Introspection (a builder tool can analyze how a Bean works), Customisation (developers can customise the appearance and behaviour of a Bean), Events (Beans can communicate), Properties (developers can customise and program with Beans(?)) and Persistence (customised Beans can be stored and reused).
- javelinas — Plural form of javelina.
- jawboning — a bone of either jaw; a maxilla or mandible.
- jawlensky — Alexej von [ah-le-ksey fuh n] /ˌɑ lɛˈkseɪ fən/ (Show IPA), 1864?–1941, German painter, born in Russia.
- jazz band — a band specializing in jazz, and consisting typically of trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, piano, double bass, and percussion.
- jazziness — The state, quality or property of being jazzy.
- jazzwoman — a female jazz musician.
- jazzwomen — Plural form of jazzwoman.
- jean paul — Burton, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- jeannette — a city in W Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- jeevesian — of, relating to, or like the butler Jeeves, who was, in the fiction of P. G. Wodehouse, a master of tact, euphemism, and ingenuity
- jellybean — a small, bean-shaped, usually brightly colored candy with a hard sugar coating and a firm gelatinous filling.
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- jerry can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- jerseyman — a native or inhabitant of the island of Jersey.
- jessamine — a female given name, form of Jasmine.
- jesserant — a flexible coat of armour consisting of small metal plates sewn onto cloth
- jet plane — an airplane moved by jet propulsion.