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.