9-letter words containing p, j
- judgeship — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- juiced up — intoxicated from alcohol; drunk: When arrested he was definitely juiced.
- jump bail — property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time.
- jump ball — a ball tossed into the air above and between two opposing players by the referee in putting the ball into play.
- jump boot — a heavy leather boot originally designed for wear by paratroopers.
- jump dial — a timepiece dial in which the numbers are seen through apertures.
- jump head — the headline printed over the continued portion of a story in a newspaper, magazine, etc., usually condensed from the main headline.
- jump lead — Jump leads are thick electrical leads that are used to connect a flat battery in a vehicle to an external charged battery, such as the battery of another vehicle, so that the first vehicle can be started.
- jump line — a line of type identifying the page on or from which a newspaper story is continued.
- jump pass — a pass in which a player leaps into the air and throws the ball to a teammate before returning to the ground.
- jump rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
- jump seat — a movable or folding seat, as in a carriage, taxicab, or limousine, used as an extra seat.
- jump ship — to desert, esp to leave a ship in which one is legally bound to serve
- jump shot — a shot with one or both hands in which a player leaps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket at the moment of reaching the highest point of the leap.
- jump suit — a one-piece suit worn by parachutists for jumping.
- jump turn — a turn in which a skier plants one or both poles in the snow in advance of the forward ski, bends close to the ground, and pivots in the air around the pole or poles.
- jump wire — jumper1 (def 6).
- jumped-up — having recently gained prominence or fame and appearing arrogant.
- jumpiness — The state of being jumpy.
- jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- jumpsuits — Plural form of jumpsuit.
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- juxtapose — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- lap joint — Also called plain lap. a joint, as between two pieces of metal or timber, in which the pieces overlap without any change in form.
- long jump — athletics: competition to jump the furthest
- long-jump — Track and Field. to execute a long jump.
- lumpy jaw — actinomycosis.
- objectpal — Object-oriented database language, part of Borland's MS-Windows version of Paradox.
- page-jack — to steal contents or code from a (website) and place it on another website, causing users to be redirected to the other site.
- pan juice — Often, pan juices. the natural juices exuded by meat, poultry, etc., while baking or roasting: used especially in basting.
- panjandra — pompous self-important officials of people of rank
- panmunjom — a small community along the boundary between North Korea and South Korea: site of the truce talks at the close of the Korean War.
- patanjali — flourished late 2nd century b.c, Indian scholar and philosopher: sometimes regarded as the founder of yoga.
- pin joint — a mechanical joint that will transmit axial load but will not transmit torque
- pinon jay — pinyon jay.
- pole-jump — pole-vault.
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- prajapati — a Vedic god personifying a creative force that evolves all things from itself.
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- prejudice — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
- print job — computer: batch of files to be printed
- projected — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- projector — an apparatus for throwing an image on a screen, as a motion-picture projector or magic lantern.
- putrajaya — officially the capital of Malaysia since 1999, in the SW Malay Peninsula, and forming its own federal territory; a high-tech garden city (including nearby Cyberjaya); construction began in 1995 and is expected to be complete in about 2010, with a planned population of over 300 000; government functions transferred in stages from Kuala Lumpur, starting in 1999
- rajahship — the office or territory of a rajah
- rajputana — a former region in NW India, now making up the principal part of Rajasthan.
- reproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- superjock — an extremely athletic person
- upper jaw — the maxilla or upper part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth. In higher vertebrates the upper jaw is fused to the cranium and the lower jaw (mandible)