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12-letter words containing ja

  • java archive — (file format, filename extension)   (jar) A compressed archive file containing Java class files, filename extension: ".jar". The Java Development Kit contains a tool called "jar" for creating .jar files, similar to the standard Unix tar command. As well as archiving and compressing the Java class files, it also inserts a "manifest" file which can contain information about the class files, such as a digital signature. Combining class files into a single archive file makes it possible to download them in a single HTTP transaction. This, and the compression, speeds up execution of Java programs delivered via the Internet. (2001}-02-03)
  • java servlet — (web)   (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. The most common use for a servlet is to extend a web server by generating web content dynamically. For example, a client may need information from a database; a servlet can be written that receives the request, gets and processes the data as needed by the client and then returns the result to the client. Servlets are more flexible than CGI scripts and, being written in Java, more portable. The spelling "servelet" is occasionally seen but JavaSoft spell it "servlet". There is no such thing as a "serverlet".
  • java sparrow — a small grey-and-pink finchlike Indonesian weaverbird, Padda oryzivora: a popular cage bird
  • javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
  • jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
  • jaw-dropping — Something that is jaw-dropping is extremely surprising, impressive, or shocking.
  • jawless fish — cyclostome.
  • jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
  • jay's treaty — the agreement in 1794 between England and the U.S. by which limited trade relations were established, England agreed to give up its forts in the northwestern frontier, and a joint commission was set up to settle border disputes.
  • jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
  • katzenjammer — the discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.
  • lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • mexican jade — Mexican onyx artificially colored green.
  • pajama party — slumber party.
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • pipe jacking — a method of laying underground pipelines by assembling the pipes at the foot of an access shaft and pushing them through the ground
  • port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
  • pro-japanese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Japan, its people, or their language.
  • puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
  • pyjama rugby — an uncomplimentary term for the Super 12 Rugby Union competition that involves teams from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and which is noted for its free-flowing nature and lack of attritional play between the forwards
  • ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.
  • rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
  • sea of japan — the sea between mainland Asia and Japan
  • sejant-erect — (of an animal) represented as seated upright with forelegs raised: a lion sejant-erect.
  • shahjahanpur — a city in central Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
  • shell jacket — a close-fitting, semiformal jacket, with a short back, worn in the tropics in place of a tuxedo.
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • sport jacket — A sport jacket is the same as a sport coat.
  • square-jawed — having a regular, approximately rectangular jaw
  • star jasmine — a shrubby, evergreen vine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, of the dogbane family, native to China, having small clusters of fragrant, white flowers, often cultivated as an ornamental.
  • steam jacket — a casing, as on the cylinder of a steam engine, filled with live steam to keep the interior hot.
  • straitjacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
  • the jazz age — (esp in the US) the period between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression during which jazz became popular
  • the-bell-jar — a novel (1963) by Sylvia Plath.
  • trojan group — a group of asteroids oscillating about either of two points, equidistant from the sun and Jupiter, that forms an equilateral triangle with the sun and Jupiter.
  • trojan horse — Classical Mythology. a gigantic hollow wooden horse, left by the Greeks upon their pretended abandonment of the siege of Troy. The Trojans took it into Troy and Greek soldiers concealed in the horse opened the gates to the Greek army at night and conquered the city.
  • trojan women — a tragedy (415 b.c.) by Euripides.
  • water jacket — a water-filled envelope or container surrounding a machine, engine, or part for cooling purposes, esp the casing around the cylinder block of a pump or internal-combustion engine
  • water-jacket — to surround or fit with a water jacket.
  • waxed jacket — a waterproof jacket made of waxed material
  • whiskey jack — gray jay.
  • yellowjacket — (chiefly, US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.
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