9-letter words containing y, j
- jonnycake — Alternative spelling of johnnycake.
- joshingly — In a joshing manner; teasingly.
- journeyed — a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
- journeyer — a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
- joviality — the state or quality of being jovial; merriment; jollity.
- joy-rider — a pleasure ride in an automobile, especially when the vehicle is driven recklessly or used without the owner's permission.
- joy-stick — Informal. the control stick of an airplane, tank, or other vehicle.
- joylessly — In a joyless manner.
- joypopper — a person who takes addictive drugs occasionally without becoming addicted
- joyridden — Past participle of joyride.
- joyriders — Plural form of joyrider.
- joyriding — The action or practice of driving fast and dangerously in a stolen car for enjoyment.
- joysticks — Plural form of joystick.
- jubilancy — (rare) Jubilation.
- judgingly — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- juneberry — the American serviceberry, Amelanchier canadensis.
- junglegym — climbing frame for children
- juniority — the state or fact of being junior in age, rank, standing, etc.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- jury duty — service on a court jury
- jury room — a private room, adjacent to a courtroom, where a trial jury discusses a case and reaches its verdict.
- jurywoman — a female juror.
- jurywomen — Plural form of jurywoman.
- juttingly — in a protruding or jutting manner
- jyvaskyla — a city in S central Finland.
- lumpy jaw — actinomycosis.
- major key — a key whose essential harmony is based on the major scale.
- mary jane — marijuana. Abbreviation: MJ.
- mbujimayi — a city in the S central Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- noninjury — A practice or philosophy of not causing injury to others.
- objectify — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
- objectory — (programming) An object-oriented methodology mostly created by Ivar Jacobson.
- only just — by slight margin
- outjockey — to outmaneuver: We outjockeyed the competition and got our bid in first.
- overenjoy — (transitive) To enjoy too much.
- overjoyed — to cause to feel great joy or delight; elate: It overjoys me to hear of your good fortune. I was overjoyed at her safe arrival.
- pinon jay — pinyon jay.
- putrajaya — officially the capital of Malaysia since 1999, in the SW Malay Peninsula, and forming its own federal territory; a high-tech garden city (including nearby Cyberjaya); construction began in 1995 and is expected to be complete in about 2010, with a planned population of over 300 000; government functions transferred in stages from Kuala Lumpur, starting in 1999
- raja yoga — a form of yoga chiefly concerned with controlling and using the energy of the mind by meditation
- re-injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
- rejustify — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- reykjavik — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- scrub jay — a crestless jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, of the western and southern U.S. and Mexico, having blue and grayish plumage.
- serjeanty — a form of land tenure in which a tenant holding of the king rendered him exclusive services in a status below that of a knight.
- the jewry — (in some anti-semitic literature) the Jews conceived of as an organized force seeking world domination
- unenjoyed — not enjoyed
- vajrayana — a school of Tantric Buddhism of India and Tibet
- wyn jones — Ieuan (ˈjʊən). born 1949, Welsh politician; leader of Plaid Cymru (2000–2012)