13-letter words containing o, j, i
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- john winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- johnson noise — thermal background noise in a radio receiver
- johore strait — a narrow strait between Malaya and Singapore Island
- joie de vivre — a delight in being alive; keen, carefree enjoyment of living.
- joint account — a bank account in the names of two or more persons or parties and subject to withdrawals by each.
- joint custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which two or more people share responsibility.
- joint honours — an honours university degree in which a student studies two separate subjects, as opposed to a single subject
- joint manager — sb who shares authority and responsibility for sth
- joint partner — a person who shares the ownership of a firm or business equally with another or others
- joint session — a joint meeting, as of both houses of a bicameral legislature: The president addressed a joint session of Congress on the crisis in Central America.
- joint tenancy — a holding of property, either real or personal, by two or more persons with each sharing the undivided interest, the entire tenancy passing to the survivor or survivors.
- joint venture — business: joint enterprise
- joint-venture — to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.
- jointer plane — a plane for truing the edges of boards, planing large surfaces, etc.
- jollification — jolly merrymaking; jolly festivity.
- jordan engine — a machine for beating and refining pulp, used in manufacturing certain grades of paper.
- joseph lister — Joseph, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis [lahym ree-jis] /laɪm ˈri dʒɪs/ (Show IPA), 1827–1912, English surgeon: founder of modern antiseptic surgery.
- joseph ritter — Joseph Elmer, 1891–1967, U.S. cardinal.
- joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
- jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- junction city — a city in NE Kansas.
- junior doctor — a doctor in postgraduate training
- junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
- junior rating — a military rank for non-officer personnel in the navy
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- jus canonicum — canon law.
- justice court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- juxtaposition — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- juxtoposition — Misspelling of juxtaposition.
- knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
- kolding fjord — an inlet of the Little Belt at the head of which is Kolding
- loose-jointed — having or marked by easy, free movement; limber.
- major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
- major premise — Logic. an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.
- majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
- misconjecture — the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
- mission viejo — a city in SW California.
- mortise joint — any of various joints between two pieces of timber or the like in which a tenon is housed in or secured to a mortise.
- mosbolletjies — Plural form of mosbolletjie.