14-letter words containing r, j
- jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- jeremy collier — Jeremy, 1650–1726, English clergyman and author.
- jerkwater town — a small unimportant town
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- jersey barrier — a type of concrete barricade used especially as a highway divider to protect each side from traffic crossing over.
- jerusalem date — butterfly flower.
- jesuits' resin — an oleoresin obtained from several tropical, chiefly South American trees belonging to the genus Copaifera, of the legume family, used chiefly in varnishes and lacquers, for removing old oil varnish from or for brightening oil paintings, and formerly in medicine in the treatment of certain mucous-membrane conditions.
- jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
- jeune premiere — the female juvenile lead in a play or movie.
- jeunesse doree — rich and fashionable young people
- jiggery-pokery — trickery, hocus-pocus; fraud; humbug.
- john c fremont — John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- johnny smokers — a plant Geum triflorum, of the rose family, native to North America, having purplish flowers and silky-plumed fruit.
- joint mortgage — a loan of money from a bank or building society to buy a house which two or more people are jointly responsible for repaying
- joint passport — a single passport shared by two or more people, such as a passport shared by a parent and child
- jonker diamond — a noted diamond weighing 726 carats, discovered in the Transvaal in 1934 and cut into 12 pieces.
- journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
- journal intime — a personal or private diary.
- journalization — to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.
- juan fernandez — a group of three islands in the S Pacific, 400 miles (645 km) W of and belonging to Chile: Alexander Selkirk, the alleged prototype of Robinson Crusoe, was marooned here 1704.
- judas iscariot — Also called Judas Iscariot. the disciple who betrayed Jesus. Mark 3:19.
- jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
- juicing orange — an orange that is grown especially for its juice, for example the Valencia orange
- jump the shark — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
- jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
- jungle warfare — the specialized techniques required by the military to survive and fight in jungle terrain
- junior college — a collegiate institution offering courses only through the first one or two years of college instruction and granting a certificate of title instead of a degree.
- junior counsel — a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
- junior officer — an officer who is not in overall command of a military unit
- junior partner — a partner in a law firm or financial organisation who has less responsibility than a senior partner
- junior varsity — a university, college, or school team that consists of players who lack the qualifications or skill necessary for the varsity and compete against other teams of similar composition or ability.
- juridical days — days on which the courts are in session
- jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
- juxtamedullary — (anatomy) next to the edge of the medulla (of the kidney).
- leatherjackets — Plural form of leatherjacket.
- major delivery — (programming) A (chiefly British) synonym for major release. E.g, the ninth major release of a piece of software might be called MD9. The release notation would be "v9.0".
- major mitchell — an Australian cockatoo, Kakatoe leadbeateri, with a white-and-pink plumage
- major prophets — theology
- major seminary — a Roman Catholic theological college devoted to training for the priesthood and usually offering a six-year program emphasizing philosophy and theology.
- map projection — a projecting or protruding part. Synonyms: overhang, protrusion, jut.
- matjes herring — young herring that have not spawned, often prepared with vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
- matteo bojardo — Matteo Maria [mah-tey-oh muh-ree-uh;; Italian maht-te-aw mah-ree-ah] /mɑˈteɪ oʊ məˈri ə;; Italian mɑtˈtɛ ɔ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), Boiardo, Matteo Maria.
- michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- microinjection — injection performed under a microscope, especially of a solution or gene transplant into a cell or cell part.
- microprojector — a microscope equipped with a prism or mirror to project a greatly magnified image of a microscopic slide onto a distant screen.
- moral majority — a political action group formed mainly of Protestant fundamentalists to further strict conservative aims, as strong antiabortion laws, the restoration of school prayer, the teaching of creationism in public schools, and the curbing of books and television programs considered antireligious or immoral.