7-letter words containing j
- gjukung — any member of the family of Gjuki.
- goujons — Plural form of goujon.
- granjon — a style of type originally cut by the French designer Robert Granjon.
- guajira — a Cuban peasant dance with shifting rhythms.
- gujarat — a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
- halabja — a Kurdish town in NE Iraq; in March 1998 Iraqi forces used poison gas on the population, killing hundreds of civilians. Pop: estimates vary between 45 000 and 80 000
- handjar — a knife or dagger from Persia or Turkey
- handjob — Alternative spelling of hand job.
- harijan — untouchable (def 5).
- hejiang — a former province in Manchuria, in NE China.
- hijacks — Plural form of hijack.
- hijinks — boisterous celebration or merrymaking; unrestrained fun: The city is full of conventioneers indulging in their usual high jinks.
- hob-job — to do casual work or various small unskilled jobs
- hotjava — (web) A modular, extensible web browser from Sun Microsystems that can execute programs written in the Java programming language. These programs, known as "applets", can be included (like images) in HTML pages. Because Java programs are compiled into machine independent bytecodes, applets can run on any platform on which HotJava runs - currently (December 1995) SPARC/Solaris 2 and Intel 80x86/Windows 95, Windows NT.
- ice jam — an obstruction of broken river ice in a narrow part of a channel.
- ijtihad — (in Islamic law) the use of reason to arrive at a knowledge of truth in religious matters.
- in jest — as a joke, humorously
- in-joke — a joke that can be understood or appreciated only by the members of a limited group of people.
- injects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inject.
- injelly — to place or enclose in jelly (as is done with meat in jars to preserve it)
- injoint — to join up; unite
- injunct — (legal, transitive) To put an injunction against.
- injured — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- injurer — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- injures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of injure.
- injuria — (legal) injury; invasion of another's rights.
- ink jet — a method of printing streams of electrically charged ink
- interj. — interjection
- j-cloth — a light, absorbent, reusable cloth used for wiping household surfaces
- j-curve — a curve which, in some economic theories, indicates that a decline in the value of a nation's currency initially causes an increase, and then a decrease, in that nation's balance-of-trade deficit
- jabbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jabber.
- jabbing — a poke with the end or point of something; a sharp, quick thrust.
- jabirus — Plural form of jabiru.
- jabroni — (professional wrestling slang) a performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
- jacalyn — a female given name.
- jacamar — any tropical American bird of the family Galbulidae, having a long bill and usually metallic green plumage above.
- jacanas — Plural form of jacana.
- jacarei — a city in SE Brazil, in São Paulo state.
- jacarta — a seaport in and the capital of Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java.
- jacchus — a marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, that is native to South America
- jacinth — a female given name, form of Hyacinth.
- jack in — abandon, quit
- jack of — tired or fed up with (something)
- jack up — an increase or rise: a recent jack-up in prices.
- jack-up — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jackall — Archaic form of jackal.
- jackals — Plural form of jackal.
- jackass — a male donkey.
- jackdaw — a glossy, black, European bird, Corvus monedula, of the crow family, that nests in towers, ruins, etc.
- jackeen — a slick self-assertive lower-class Dubliner