11-letter words containing r, j
- jesus freak — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
- jet fighter — aeronautics
- 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.
- jewelleries — articles of gold, silver, precious stones, etc., for personal adornment.
- jewelry box — case for valuable accessories
- jiggermasts — Plural form of jiggermast.
- jim crowism — Jim Crow (def 1).
- jitteriness — extremely tense and nervous; jumpy: He's very jittery about the medical checkup.
- jnana-marga — any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)
- joan of arc — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- 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.
- job's-tears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- jocoserious — Simultaneously jocular and serious; mixing mirth with serious matters.
- joel barlow — Joel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
- joey hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- john glover — John, 1732–97, American general.
- john sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- 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.
- jolly roger — a flag flown by pirates, having the device of a white skull and crossbones on a black field.
- joseph raff — Joseph Joachim, 1822–82, Swiss composer.
- joshua tree — an evergreen tree, Yucca brevifolia, growing in arid or desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having long, twisted branches.
- journal box — a box or housing for a journal and its bearing.
- journalists — Plural form of journalist.
- journalized — Simple past tense and past participle of journalize.
- journalizer — One who records events in a journal.
- journalling — journal
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- juan carlos — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- jubal early — Jubal Anderson [joo-buh l] /ˈdʒu bəl/ (Show IPA), 1816–94, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
- judicatures — Plural form of judicature.
- judiciaries — Plural form of judiciary.
- jugged hare — a stew made of wild rabbit, usually cooked in an earthenware jug or stone pot.
- juggernauts — Plural form of juggernaut.
- julius raab — Julius, 1891–1964, Austrian engineer and statesman: chancellor of Austria 1953–61.
- jumpmasters — Plural form of jumpmaster.
- jumpstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of jumpstart.
- 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.
- juniper tar — a medicinal tar derived from the European juniper Juniperus oxycedrus: used topically in the treatment of certain skin diseases.
- junk dealer — a person who buys and sells discarded or secondhand objects
- junk mailer — an organization that sends junk mail in bulk, especially to solicit business or charitable contributions.
- junk market — the market for junk bonds
- juramentado — (formerly) a Muslim, especially a Moro, bound by an oath to be killed fighting against Christians and other infidels.
- jure divino — by divine law.
- jure humano — by human law.