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