11-letter words containing o, j
- jejunectomy — excision of part or all of the jejunum.
- jejunostomy — an artificial opening from the jejunum through the abdominal wall, created for the drainage of jejunal contents or for feeding.
- jelly mould — a mould made of glass, copper, etc, used to make a jelly in a decorative shape
- jeopardised — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardized — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopardize.
- jeopardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeopardize.
- jerk around — If you say that someone is jerking you around, you mean that they are not being honest with you about something.
- jerome kern — Jerome (David) 1885–1945, U.S. composer.
- jettisoning — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- jeu de mots — a pun.
- jewelry box — case for valuable accessories
- jim crowism — Jim Crow (def 1).
- jimson weed — a coarse, rank-smelling weed, Datura stramonium, of the nightshade family, having oaklike, poisonous leaves and tubular white or lavender flowers.
- jimsonweeds — Plural form of jimsonweed.
- joan of arc — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- joao pessoa — a state in E Brazil. 21,760 sq. mi. (56,360 sq. km). Capital: João Pessoa.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- job hunting — the activity of searching for employment
- job printer — a printer who does letterheads, invoices, announcements, and other miscellaneous work, as distinguished from one who works solely on books, periodicals, etc.
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- job vacancy — a job which has not been filled
- job's-tears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- joblessness — without a job.
- jockey club — an association for the regulation and promotion of thoroughbred horse racing, usually composed of racing officials and thoroughbred owners at a specific racetrack or in a particular region.
- jocoserious — Simultaneously jocular and serious; mixing mirth with serious matters.
- joe college — a personification of a typical male U.S. college student, especially in the 1930s.
- joe sixpack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- joel barlow — Joel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
- joey hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- joggle post — a wooden king post having notches or raised areas for receiving and supporting the feet of struts.
- john calvin — John (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin) 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.
- john dalton — John, 1766–1844, English chemist and physicist.
- john glover — John, 1732–97, American general.
- john motley — John Lothrop [loh-thruh p] /ˈloʊ θrəp/ (Show IPA), 1814–77, U.S. historian and diplomat.
- john paul i — (Albino Luciani) 1912–78, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1978.
- john scopes — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- john sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- john thomas — an apostle who demanded proof of Christ's Resurrection. John 20:24–29.
- johnny cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- johnny-cake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- join battle — to start fighting
- join forces — unite for a common purpose
- joined case — a trial combining multiple related claims, etc
- joiner door — Shipbuilding. a door of wood or light metal set in a nonwatertight bulkhead.
- joining fee — a sum of money that you pay in order to become a member of a club, organization, etc, or in order to start receiving a service, such as a phone line
- joint issue — one of two or more stamps that are issued jointly by two governments to commemorate an event of common historical interest.
- joint stock — stock or capital divided into a number of shares.
- joint stool — a low wood stool having turned legs with all parts joined by a mortise joint.
- jointedness — The state or condition of being jointed.
- jointresses — Plural form of jointress.