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18-letter words containing n, o, j

  • major tranquilizer — antipsychotic (def 2).
  • money is no object — If you say that money is no object or distance is no object, you are emphasizing that you are willing or able to spend as much money as necessary or travel whatever distance is required.
  • not on/just not on — If you say that something is not on or is just not on, you mean that it is unacceptable or impossible.
  • object-orientation — object-oriented
  • objective genitive — a use of the genitive case to express an objective relationship, as in Latin timor mortis (fear of death)
  • oblique projection — something that is oblique.
  • peters' projection — a form of modified world map projection that attempts to reflect accurately the relative surface areas of landmasses, an approach which gives greater prominence (than do standard representations) to equatorial countries
  • phoenician juniper — a type of juniper that is found in the Mediterranean region
  • project management — leadership of a task or programme
  • projection machine — an apparatus that projects motion pictures; projector.
  • projection printer — enlarger.
  • russo-japanese war — the war (1904–1905) between Russia and Japan.
  • saint john's bread — carob (def 2).
  • san juan mountains — a mountain range in SW Colorado and N New Mexico: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak: Uncompahgre Peak, 4363 m (14 314 ft)
  • self-justification — the act or fact of justifying oneself, especially of offering excessive reasons, explanations, excuses, etc., for an act, thought, or the like.
  • spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
  • st john chrysostomSaint John, a.d. 347?–407, ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.
  • stroustrup, bjarne — Bjarne Stroustrup
  • subject complement — a word or a group of words, usually functioning as an adjective or noun, that is used in the predicate following a copula and describes or is identified with the subject of the sentence, as sleepy in The travelers became sleepy.
  • teleobjective lens — telephoto lens.
  • the major rogation — April 25, observed by Christians as a day of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
  • under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
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