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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)
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