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10-letter words containing r, e, j, a

  • jeopardise — to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
  • jeopardize — to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
  • jeopardous — perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
  • jerkinhead — a roof having a hipped end truncating a gable.
  • jervis bay — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia, in Jervis Bay Territory on the coast of S New South Wales: regarded for some purposes as part of the Australian Capital Territory: site of the Royal Australian Naval College
  • jet stream — strong, generally westerly winds concentrated in a relatively narrow and shallow stream in the upper troposphere of the earth.
  • jetstreams — Plural form of jetstream.
  • jew's harp — (sometimes lowercase) a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a lyre-shaped metal frame containing a metal tongue, which is plucked while the frame is held in the teeth, the vibrations causing twanging tones.
  • jew's-harp — (sometimes lowercase) a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a lyre-shaped metal frame containing a metal tongue, which is plucked while the frame is held in the teeth, the vibrations causing twanging tones.
  • jiggermast — a small mast set well aft in a boat or ship; mizzenmast.
  • job market — the total number of vacant jobs open to those seeking employment.
  • journalese — a manner of writing or speaking characterized by clichés, occasional neologism, archness, sensationalizing adjectives, unusual or faulty syntax, etc., used by some journalists, especially certain columnists, and regarded as typical journalistic style.
  • journalise — Alternative spelling of journalize.
  • journalize — to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.
  • journeyman — a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
  • juan peron — Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
  • juantorena — Alberto (alˈβɛrto). born 1951, Cuban runner: won the 400 metres and the 800 metres in the 1976 Olympic Games
  • judas tree — a purple-flowered Eurasian tree, Cercis siliquastrum, of the legume family, supposed to be the kind upon which Judas hanged himself.
  • judder bar — a bump built across roads, esp in housing estates, to reduce speeding
  • judicature — the administration of justice, as by judges or courts.
  • juggernaut — (often lowercase) any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team.
  • jumper ant — bulldog ant.
  • jumpmaster — a person who supervises the jumping of paratroopers or other parachutists.
  • june grass — Kentucky bluegrass.
  • jute board — a strong, bendable cardboard made from rags and sulfite, used chiefly in the manufacture of shipping cartons.
  • kilner jar — a glass preserving jar with an airtight lid, used for bottling fruit or vegetables
  • klaberjass — a card game played with a 32-card pack, made by removing all cards below the sevens from a regular 52-card pack, in which scoring values are assigned to certain cards taken in tricks, to sequences in the same suit, to the king and queen of trumps, and to the last trick.
  • kragujevac — a town in E central Serbia; capital of Serbia (1818–39); automobile industry. Pop: 145 890 (2002)
  • leyden jar — a device for storing electric charge, consisting essentially of a glass jar lined inside and outside, for about two-thirds of its height, with tinfoil.
  • lumberjack — a person who works at lumbering; logger.
  • major mode — major scale.
  • major term — Logic. an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.
  • majorettes — Plural form of majorette.
  • majorities — Plural form of majority.
  • marjolaine — (italics) French. marjoram.
  • mary janes — flat or low-heeled shoes for women or girls, usually with a rounded toe and a single strap that buckles across the instep
  • natterjack — a European toad, Bufo calamita, that moves by running.
  • objurgated — Simple past tense and past participle of objurgate.
  • objurgates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of objurgate.
  • pejoration — depreciation; a lessening in worth, quality, etc.
  • pejorative — having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force: the pejorative affix -ling in princeling.
  • pipe major — the noncommissioned officer, generally of warrant officer's rank, who is responsible for the training, duty, and discipline of a military or civilian pipe band
  • re-adjourn — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
  • readjusted — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
  • red jacket — (Sagoyewatha) c1756–1830, Seneca leader.
  • rejectable — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • rejoneador — a bullfighter who rides horseback during a fight and spears the bull with lances
  • rejuvenate — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
  • rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
  • rubber jaw — a condition in which the mandible becomes demineralized and excessively mobile in animals with advanced renal disease
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