11-letter words containing r, j
- juridically — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- jury system — a legal system used to determine the facts in a lawsuit
- jury-rigged — Nautical. a temporary rig to replace a permanent rig that has been disabled, lost overboard, etc.
- jus naturae — law of nature; natural law
- justaucorps — a fitted, knee-length coat, characterized by wide turned-back cuffs and stiff flared skirts, worn especially by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- kana-majiri — the standard script of modern Japanese, in which kanji are used for root elements, supplemented by kana for inflections and particles and sometimes for indication of the Japanese pronunciation of kanji.
- karl jansky — Karl Guthe, 1905–50, U.S. engineer: pioneer in radio astronomy.
- kilimanjaro — a volcanic mountain in N Tanzania: highest peak in Africa. 19,321 feet (5889 meters).
- lantern jaw — a distinctly protruding, often wide lower jaw.
- leatherjack — Leatherjacket (fish in genus Oligoplites).
- lime-juicer — a British sailor.
- long jumper — an athlete who does the long jump
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- major order — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
- major party — a political party with enough electoral strength to periodically gain control of the government or to effectively oppose the party in power.
- major piece — a queen or rook.
- major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
- major triad — a triad consisting in root position of a root tone with a major third and a perfect fifth above.
- majoretting — the practice of performing as majorettes
- majoritaire — a member of the majority faction in a political party
- megaproject — A very large public investment project, especially one costing more than one billion US dollars.
- microinject — to inject into a single cell or cell part.
- misjoinders — Plural form of misjoinder.
- miter joint — a joint, especially a butt joint, between two pieces of wood or the like, meeting at an angle in which each of the butting surfaces is cut to an angle equal to half the angle of junction.
- mitered jib — a diagonal-cut jib.
- mitre joint — a corner joint formed between two pieces of material, esp wood, by cutting bevels of equal angles at the ends of each piece
- modern jazz — any of various styles of jazz that have evolved since the early 1940s and are marked generally by harmonic and rhythmic complexity, emphasis on chord progressions rather than melody, a tendency to draw on classical forms and styles, and eclectic, allusive melodic tags in improvisation. Also called progressive jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop.
- narayanganj — a port in SE Bangladesh, SE of Dacca.
- natterjacks — Plural form of natterjack.
- objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
- objet d'art — an object of artistic worth or curiosity, especially a small object.
- objurgating — Present participle of objurgate.
- objurgation — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- objurgative — That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
- objurgatory — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- orjonikidze — Ordzhonikidze (def 1).
- ouija board — board used by spiritualists
- over-joyous — joyful; happy; jubilant: the joyous sounds of children at play.
- overenjoyed — Simple past tense and past participle of overenjoy.
- prajadhipok — 1893–1941, king of Siam 1925–35.
- prejudgment — to judge beforehand.
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- prejudicate — to judge beforehand
- prejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- prejudicing — any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
- project mac — (project) A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
- projectable — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- projectment — a design or projection
- quart major — Piquet. a sequence of four cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, and jack (quart major) or king, queen, jack, and ten (quart minor)
- quint major — an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.