12-letter words containing o, j
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- kigoma-ujiji — a city composed of two merged towns in W Tanzania, on Lake Tanganyika: Stanley found Livingstone in Ujiji 1871.
- labia majora — female genitals: outer folds of skin
- lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
- lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
- majolicaware — goods made from majolica
- major arcana — one of the two divisions of a pack of tarot cards
- major league — The major leagues are groups of professional sports teams that compete against each other, especially in American baseball.
- major orders — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
- major planet — planet (def 1a).
- major tenace — the ace and queen of a suit held by one player.
- major-league — Sports. of, relating to, or characteristic of the major leagues.
- major-planet — Astronomy. Also called major planet. any of the eight large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, in the order of their proximity to the sun. Until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet ninth in order from the sun; it has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun. (formerly) a celestial body moving in the sky, as distinguished from a fixed star, applied also to the sun and moon.
- majoritarian — of, relating to, or constituting a majority: majoritarian democracy.
- majorleaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
- mips project — Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
- 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.”.
- mohenjo-daro — an archaeological site in Pakistan, near the Indus River: six successive ancient cities were built here.
- morris jesup — Cape, a cape of N Greenland, on the Arctic Ocean, 440 miles (710 km) from the North Pole: northernmost land point in the world.
- mosbolletjie — (South Africa) Dough leavened with the must of grapes used for making rusks.
- mouse jockey — a person whose job mainly involves working with computers, esp for web and graphic design
- nailer joist — a steel joist having a permanently attached nailing strip, as for securing wooden flooring.
- non-conjugal — of, relating to, or characteristic of marriage: conjugal vows.
- nonconjugate — 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.”.
- nonobjective — not objective.
- nordenskjold — Baron Nils Adolf Erik [nils ah-dawlf ey-rik] /nɪls ˈɑ dɔlf ˈeɪ rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1832–1901, Swedish arctic explorer, geographer, and geologist; born in Finland.
- not just any — If you say that someone or something is not just any person or thing, you mean that they are special in some way.
- noun adjunct — a noun that occurs before and modifies another noun, as toy in toy store or tour in tour group.
- object chill — ["Object CHILL - An Object Oriented Language for Systems Implementation", J. Winkler et al, ACM Comp Sci Conf 1992, pp. 139-147].
- object glass — objective (def 3).
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- objectbroker — (programming) A distributed object system from DEC based on the CORBA standard.
- objectcenter — A product offering similar facilities to CodeCenter for the C++ language, plus class browsing facilities etc (formerly Saber-C++).
- objecteering — (programming, tool) An object-oriented design tool from Softeam, based on the Class Relation Methodology, with C++ code generation.
- objectifying — Present participle of objectify.
- objectivized — to cause to become concrete or objective; objectify.
- objet trouve — found object.
- ojo caliente — a hot spring.
- onion johnny — a Breton farmer that sells onions door-to-door in the United Kingdom
- orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
- orthodox jew — a Jew who adheres faithfully to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism as evidenced chiefly by a devotion to and study of the Torah, daily synagogue attendance if possible, and strict observance of the Sabbath, religious festivals, holy days, and the dietary laws.
- out of joint — the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture.
- over-jealous — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- p-n junction — a boundary between a p-type and n-type semiconductor that functions as a rectifier and is used in diodes and junction transistors
- pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
- plat du jour — the special or featured dish of the day on a restaurant menu.
- port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
- pot marjoram — oregano.
- prester john — a legendary Christian monk and potentate of the Middle Ages, supposed to have had a kingdom in some remote part of Asia or Africa and associated with fabulous narratives of travel.
- private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group