8-letter words containing u, j
- injuries — Plural form of injury.
- injuring — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- j'accuse — any strong denunciation
- j'adoube — an expression of an intention to touch a piece in order to adjust its placement rather than to make a move
- j'ouvert — the eve of Mardi gras; the Monday morning on which the festivities begin
- jabalpur — a city in central Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
- jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- jaculate — to throw or hurl (a dart, javelin, etc.).
- jacuzzis — Plural form of jacuzzi.
- jajapura — Jayapura.
- jaloused — Simple past tense and past participle of jalouse.
- jalousie — a blind or shutter made with horizontal slats that can be adjusted to admit light and air but exclude rain and the rays of the sun.
- jam puff — a small pastry with fruit jam inside it
- jamalpur — a city in N Bangladesh.
- jambeaux — Plural form of jambeau.
- jaundice — Also called icterus. Pathology. yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis. Compare physiologic jaundice.
- jaunters — Plural form of jaunter.
- jauntier — Comparative form of jaunty.
- jauntily — easy and sprightly in manner or bearing: to walk with a jaunty step.
- jaunting — a short journey, especially one taken for pleasure.
- jayapura — the W part of the island of New Guinea, formerly a Dutch territory: a province of Indonesia since 1963. About 159,000 sq. mi. (411,810 sq. km). Capital: Jayapura.
- jealouse — to suspect
- jealousy — jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
- jebusite — a member of an ancient Canaanite people that lived in Jebus.
- jedburgh — a border town in the Borders region, in SE Scotland: ruins of an abbey.
- jejunely — In a jejune manner.
- jejunity — without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
- jelutong — a tree, Dyera costulata, of the Malay Peninsula, from which a resinous latex is obtained.
- jerk out — to utter sharply and abruptly
- jesuitic — of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
- jet fuel — fuel to be used in jet aircraft
- 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).
- jeunesse — the time of one's youth
- jiaozhou — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- jiujitsu — a method developed in Japan of defending oneself without the use of weapons by using the strength and weight of an adversary to disable him.
- jiujutsu — Alt form jujitsu.
- job hunt — search for employment
- job-hunt — to seek employment; look for a job.
- jocundly — In a jocund manner.
- jodhpuri — of or relating to Jodhpur or its inhabitants
- jodhpurs — Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- jongleur — (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
- jonquils — Plural form of jonquil.
- josephus — Flavius [fley-vee-uh s] /ˈfleɪ vi əs/ (Show IPA), (Joseph ben Matthias) a.d. 37?–c100, Jewish historian and general.
- jouncing — Present participle of jounce.
- journall — Obsolete form of journal.
- journals — Plural form of journal.
- journeys — Plural form of journey.
- journies — Plural form of journy.