13-letter words containing j
- conjunctively — serving to connect; connective: conjunctive tissue.
- core subjects — three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
- counterjumper — a clerk in a retail store.
- crape jasmine — a shrub, Tabernaemontana divaricata, native to India, having white flowers that are fragrant at night.
- crevalle jack — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- dhu el-hijjah — Islam. the twelfth month of the Muslim calendar, in leap year containing one extra day.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
- direct object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing upon which the action of a verb is performed or toward which it is directed: in English, generally coming after the verb, without a preposition. In He saw it the pronoun it is the direct object of saw.
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- do justice to — to show to full advantage
- donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
- edward jenner — Edward, 1749–1823, English physician: discoverer of smallpox vaccine.
- ejection seat — a seat, esp as fitted to military aircraft, that is fired by a cartridge or rocket to eject the occupant from the aircraft in an emergency
- enjoy oneself — to have a good time
- enjoyableness — The quality or state of being enjoyable.
- executive job — a job in which a person is responsible for the administration of a project, activity, or business
- export reject — an article that fails to meet a standard of quality required for export and that is sold on the home market
- extrajudicial — (of a sentence) not legally authorized.
- family jewels — a man's genitals
- fille de joie — a prostitute.
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- force majeure — an unexpected and disruptive event that may operate to excuse a party from a contract.
- fouta djallon — a highland pastoral region in West Africa, in central Guinea, also in Sierra Leone and Liberia. 30,000 sq. mi. (77,700 sq. km).
- franz josef i — English name Francis Joseph I. 1830–1916, emperor of Austria (1848–1916) and king of Hungary (1867–1916)
- fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
- fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
- gastric juice — the digestive fluid, containing pepsin and other enzymes, secreted by the glands of the stomach.
- gheorghiu-dej — Gheorghe [gyawr-ge] /ˈgyɔr gɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–65, Romanian statesman: premier 1952–55; president of the state council 1961–65.
- gilmore, john — John Gilmore
- gliding joint — arthrodia.
- hanging judge — sb who sentences criminals to execution
- heilong jiang — Amur.
- hepatojugular — (medicine) Relating to the liver and the jugular vein.
- high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
- hobson-jobson — the alteration of a word or phrase borrowed from a foreign language to accord more closely with the phonological and lexical patterns of the borrowing language, as in English hoosegow from Spanish juzgado.
- house journal — a publication produced for the employees of a company or organization in order to keep them updated with news and events
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- injudiciously — not judicious; showing lack of judgment; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet: an injudicious decision.
- injured party — victim
- injuriousness — The quality of being injurious.
- interjaculate — (transitive) To ejaculate (a remark, etc.) parenthetically.
- interjections — Plural form of interjection.
- interjunction — an act of joining; combining.
- jack crevalle — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jack mackerel — a mackerellike food fish, Trachurus symmetricus, of Pacific coastal waters of the U.S.
- jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
- jacket potato — potato: baked in its skin