11-letter words containing s, j
- james range — a mountain range in central Australia.
- james riley — James Whitcomb [hwit-kuh m,, wit-] /ˈʰwɪt kəm,, ˈwɪt-/ (Show IPA), 1849–1916, U.S. poet.
- jane addams — Charles (Samuel) 1912–88, U.S. cartoonist.
- janissaries — Plural form of janissary.
- janitorship — the office of janitor
- janus cloth — a worsted fabric, each side of which has a different color.
- janus-faced — having two faces, one looking forward, one looking backward, as the Roman deity Janus.
- jargonistic — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
- jasmine tea — tea scented with jasmine blossoms.
- jasperizing — Present participle of jasperize.
- jawbreakers — Plural form of jawbreaker.
- jazz singer — a singer whose vocal technique is similar to that of a musical instrument, and whose singing has a strong jazz feeling, chiefly imparted through phrasing, melodic improvisation, and rhythmic subtlety.
- jazz-fusion — jazz-rock.
- jealoushood — jealousy
- jealousness — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- jehoshaphat — a king of Judah, son of Asa, who reigned in the 9th century b.c. I Kings 22:41–50.
- jejunostomy — an artificial opening from the jejunum through the abdominal wall, created for the drainage of jejunal contents or for feeding.
- jellyfishes — Plural form of jellyfish.
- jeopardised — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeopardize.
- jersey city — a seaport in NE New Jersey, opposite New York City.
- jersey pine — Virginia pine.
- jesuit ware — Chinese porcelain of the early 18th century, decorated with Christian motifs, usually in black and gold on a white background.
- 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-setting — You use jet-setting to describe people who are rich and successful and who have a luxurious lifestyle.
- jettisoning — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- jeu de mots — a pun.
- 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.
- jewelfishes — Plural form of jewelfish.
- jewelleries — articles of gold, silver, precious stones, etc., for personal adornment.
- jiggermasts — Plural form of jiggermast.
- jim crowism — Jim Crow (def 1).
- jimson weed — a coarse, rank-smelling weed, Datura stramonium, of the nightshade family, having oaklike, poisonous leaves and tubular white or lavender flowers.
- jimsonweeds — Plural form of jimsonweed.
- jitteriness — extremely tense and nervous; jumpy: He's very jittery about the medical checkup.
- joao pessoa — a state in E Brazil. 21,760 sq. mi. (56,360 sq. km). Capital: João Pessoa.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- 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.
- joblessness — without a job.
- jocoserious — Simultaneously jocular and serious; mixing mirth with serious matters.
- joe sixpack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
- joggle post — a wooden king post having notches or raised areas for receiving and supporting the feet of struts.
- john scopes — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- john sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- john thomas — an apostle who demanded proof of Christ's Resurrection. John 20:24–29.
- join forces — unite for a common purpose
- joined case — a trial combining multiple related claims, etc
- joint issue — one of two or more stamps that are issued jointly by two governments to commemorate an event of common historical interest.
- joint stock — stock or capital divided into a number of shares.