8-letter words containing t, e, j
- jet pump — A jet pump is a pump that operates on the principle of a high-pressure fluid jet and the venturi effect (= which exerts suction).
- jet wash — Aeronautics. the backwash caused by a jet engine.
- jetborne — carried by jet aircraft.
- jetfoils — Plural form of jetfoil.
- jetliner — a commercial jet plane for carrying passengers.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- jettison — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- jirkinet — a jacket or bodice worn by women
- jittered — Simple past tense and past participle of jitter.
- jockette — a female jockey
- jointers — Plural form of jointer.
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- jokester — a joker, especially a practical joker.
- joktaleg — a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
- joliette — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- jolliest — Superlative form of jolly.
- jolthead — (archaic) A dunce; a blockhead.
- jousters — Plural form of jouster.
- jowliest — Superlative form of jowly.
- jubilate — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- jubilent — Misspelling of jubilant.
- judahite — a member of the tribe of Judah or of the kingdom of Judah.
- judgment — an act or instance of judging.
- jugulate — to check or suppress (disease) by extreme measures.
- juiciest — Superlative form of juicy.
- jump jet — a jet airplane capable of taking off and landing vertically or on an extremely short runway or flight deck.
- juncture — a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- junketed — Simple past tense and past participle of junket.
- junketer — Someone taking part in a junket or banquet etc; a partygoer.
- justicer — a judge or magistrate.
- justices — Plural form of justice.
- justifie — Obsolete spelling of justify.
- justness — the quality or state of being just, equitable, or right: His justness was never doubted.
- jutelike — resembling jute
- majestic — characterized by or possessing majesty; of lofty dignity or imposing aspect; stately; grand: the majestic Alps.
- majestie — Archaic form of majesty.
- microjet — a light jet-propelled aircraft
- multijet — Of or pertaining to multiple jets (spouts or nozzles).
- naartjie — (South Africa) Citrus reticulata, (mandarin, satsuma, tangerine); a soft, loose-skinned tangerine.
- nartjies — Plural form of nartjie.
- object z — University of Queensland.
- objected — anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
- objector — anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
- ondaatje — Michael. born 1943, Sri Lankan-born Canadian writer: his works include the poetry collection There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do (1979), the Booker-prizewinning novel The English Patient (1992, filmed 1997), Anil's Ghost (2000), and Divisadero (2007)
- overjust — too just
- pejorate — to change for the worse
- pulsejet — a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.
- re-eject — to eject again
- readjust — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
- reinject — to force (a fluid) into a passage, cavity, or tissue: to inject a medicine into the veins.