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14-letter words containing r, j

  • new jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
  • new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
  • nexpert object — An expert system.
  • nonprejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
  • object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
  • objet de vertu — an object of virtu
  • overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
  • overbejewelled — wearing an excessive amount of jewellery, or excessively decorated
  • owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
  • parachute jump — leaping from aircraft with a parachute
  • parajournalism — news reportage that strongly reflects the point of view of the writer or editor or that uses techniques not practiced in conventional journalism.
  • petit dejeuner — breakfast.
  • pitjantjatjara — an Aboriginal people of the desert area of South Australia
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • project athena — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
  • project leader — leader of a task or programme
  • projectisation — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
  • projectization — the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs
  • propjet engine — turbo-propeller engine.
  • purkinje fiber — any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the ventricles.
  • pyjama cricket — one-day cricket, in which the players wear colourful clothing rather than the traditional whites used in longer forms of the game
  • readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
  • rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
  • rejuvenescence — becoming young again.
  • relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
  • res adjudicata — res judicata.
  • resojet engine — a type of pulsejet engine that burns a continuous flow of fuel but delivers a pulsating thrust due to the resonance of shock waves traveling through it.
  • return journey — the journey back from a destination
  • rio de janeiro — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
  • semimajor axis — Geometry. one half the major axis of an ellipse.
  • sergeant major — U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative assistant in a unit headquarters.
  • serra junipero — Miguel José [mee-gel haw-se] /miˈgɛl hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1713–84, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians in California and Mexico.
  • shoulder joint — the joint at the junction of the forelimb with the pectoral girdle
  • silver jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • siraj-ud-daula — 1728?–57, nawab of Bengal 1756–57.
  • st. john perse — (pseud. of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887-1975; Fr. diplomat & poet
  • st.-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
  • straight joint — a vertical joint in brickwork that is directly above a vertical joint in the course below
  • straightjacket — to put in or as in a straitjacket: Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
  • street justice — the punishment given by members of the public to people regarded as criminals or wrongdoers
  • stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer
  • subject matter — the substance of a discussion, book, writing, etc., as distinguished from its form or style.
  • surajah dowlah — Siraj-ud-daula.
  • sweet marjoram — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Origanum, of the mint family, especially O. majorana (sweet marjoram) having leaves used as seasoning in cooking.
  • telejournalism — the writing and broadcasting of journalism for television
  • telejournalist — a journalist who writes for or broadcasts on television
  • the job market — the people who are looking for work and the jobs available for them to do
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