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11-letter words containing o, r, n, i

  • jackarooing — Present participle of jackaroo.
  • janitorship — the office of janitor
  • jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour)   The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
  • jargonistic — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
  • jawdropping — Alternative form of jaw-dropping.
  • 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.
  • join forces — unite for a common purpose
  • joiner door — Shipbuilding. a door of wood or light metal set in a nonwatertight bulkhead.
  • jointresses — Plural form of jointress.
  • journalists — Plural form of journalist.
  • journalized — Simple past tense and past participle of journalize.
  • journalizer — One who records events in a journal.
  • journalling — journal
  • junior high — lower secondary school
  • junior miss — a teenage girl, especially a subdebutante.
  • juniper oil — an oil obtained from the berries or wood of the common juniper, Juniperus communis.
  • jure divino — by divine law.
  • k-radiation — one of a series of lines (K-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (K-radiation) produced by the transition of an electron to the K-shell.
  • kaffir corn — a Southern African variety of sorghum, cultivated in dry regions for its grain and as fodder
  • kantorovich — Leonid Vitalyevich [ley-uh-nid vi-tal-yuh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet vyi-tah-lyuh-vyich] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd vɪˈtæl yə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit vyɪˈtɑ lyə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1912–86, Soviet mathematician and economist: Nobel Prize in Economics 1975.
  • karyotyping — the analysis of chromosomes.
  • keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
  • kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
  • kiddie porn — child pornography.
  • kidney worm — any of various large nematodes parasitic in the kidneys, especially Stephanurus dentatus, found in pigs.
  • kilimanjaro — a volcanic mountain in N Tanzania: highest peak in Africa. 19,321 feet (5889 meters).
  • kinetochore — Biology. the place on either side of the centromere to which the spindle fibers are attached during cell division.
  • kinetograph — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • king closer — a brick of regular length and thickness, used in building corners, having a long bevel from a point on one side to one about halfway across the adjacent end.
  • kingcroaker — The weakfish or sea trout.
  • knobkerries — Plural form of knobkerry.
  • kordofanian — a subfamily of Niger-Kordofanian that comprises about 30 languages spoken in southern Kordofan.
  • l-radiation — one of a series of lines (L-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (L-radiation) caused by the transition of an electron to the L-shell.
  • labor pains — childbirth: contractions
  • labor union — an organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers; trade union.
  • laborsaving — designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
  • lacerations — Plural form of laceration.
  • lacrimation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
  • lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
  • lamellicorn — having antennae with lamellate terminal segments, as beetles of the group Lamellicornia, including the scarabaeids and stag beetles.
  • lamotrigine — An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy.
  • lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
  • landlordism — the practice under which privately owned property is leased or rented to others for occupancy or cultivation.
  • langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
  • latin cross — an upright or vertical bar crossed near the top by a shorter horizontal bar.
  • latin lover — seductive Latin American man
  • latrocinium — highway robbery
  • legationary — Relating to a legation.
  • legionaries — Plural form of legionary.
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