9-letter words containing j
- enjoyably — In an enjoyable manner.
- enjoyment — The state or process of taking pleasure in something.
- feijoadas — Plural form of feijoada.
- flapjacks — Plural form of flapjack; pancakes.
- forejudge — forjudge.
- forjaskit — exhausted
- free jazz — spontaneously experimental, free-form jazz, popularized as an avant-garde phenomenon in the 1960s by various soloists and characterized by random expression and disregard for traditional structures, tonalities, and rhythms.
- fruit jar — a glass jar for preserving fruit or vegetables, usually holding one pint or one quart and having an airtight cap.
- ganga jal — sacred water from the River Ganges in India
- genoa jib — a large triangular jib sail, often with a foot that extends as far aft as the clew of the mainsail
- gjellerup — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1857–1919, Danish novelist: Nobel Prize 1917.
- glass jaw — a person's jaw, especially that of a boxer, that is vulnerable to even a light blow.
- gunnbjorn — Mount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
- gurdjieff — George Ivanovich (George S. Georgiades) 1872–1949, Armenian-born spiritual leader and author.
- gyp joint — any business establishment that charges excessively for poor-quality service or goods.
- half-jack — a flat pocket-sized bottle of alcohol
- halleluja — Alternative spelling of hallelujah.
- hic jacet — (on gravestones) here lies
- high jump — sport: jumping over a high bar
- high-jump — to participate in the high jump; compete as a high jumper.
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hijacking — Present participle of hijack.
- hip joint — a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone.
- hojillion — (slang, hyperbole, rare) An unspecified large number (of).
- hu jintao — born 1942, Chinese Communist statesman; president of China (2003–2013)
- hung jury — a jury that cannot agree on a verdict.
- injectant — a substance injected through the skin, as bee-sting venom or penicillin administered by injection, that causes an allergic reaction.
- injecting — Present participle of inject.
- injection — the act of injecting.
- injective — (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain); inverse-deterministic.
- injectors — Plural form of injector.
- injurious — harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
- injustice — the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
- inner jib — a headsail immediately forward of a forestaysail or fore-topmast staysail.
- interject — to insert between other things: to interject a clarification of a previous statement.
- interjoin — (mathematics) To interconnect two sets.
- introject — (psychology) To unconsciously incorporate into one's psyche.
- ipso jure — by the law itself; by operation of law.
- irukandji — a tiny but highly venomous Australian jellyfish
- j. random — (jargon) /J rand'm/ (Generalised from J. Random Hacker) Arbitrary; ordinary; any one; any old. "J. Random" is often prefixed to a noun to make a name out of it. It means roughly "some particular" or "any specific one". "Would you let J. Random Loser marry your daughter?" The most common uses are "J. Random Hacker", "J. Random Loser", and "J. Random Nerd" ("Should J. Random Loser be allowed to gun down other people?"), but it can be used simply as an elaborate version of random in any sense.
- j. wanhal — Johann Baptist, Vanhal, Jan Křtitel.
- jabbering — rapid, indistinct, or nonsensical talk; gibberish.
- jaborandi — any of several South American shrubs belonging to the genus Pilocarpus, of the rue family.
- jacaranda — any of various tropical trees belonging to the genus Jacaranda, of the catalpa family, having showy clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- jack arch — flat arch.
- jack bean — a bushy tropical plant, Canavalia ensiformis, of the legume family, grown especially for forage.
- jack cade — Jack, died 1450, English rebel during the reign of Henry VI, based in Kent.
- jack kemp — Jack F. 1935–2009, U.S. politician: congressman 1970–89.
- jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
- jack post — a post for supporting a floor beam, having two telescoping sections, adjustable to any height.