10-letter words starting with j
- j particle — an early name for the J/psi particle.
- j-bar lift — a ski lift having a J -shaped bar against which a skier leans in an upright position while being pulled up the slope.
- jabberings — Plural form of jabbering.
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jaborandis — Plural form of jaborandi.
- jaboticaba — an evergreen tree, Myrciaria cauliflora, of the Myrtle family, native to southern Brazil, bearing on the trunk small clusters of edible, grapelike fruit.
- jabotinsky — Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.
- jacarandas — Plural form of jacaranda.
- jack benny — Jack (Benjamin Kubelsky) 1894–1974, U.S. comedian.
- jack block — a block used in raising or lowering a topgallant yard.
- jack chain — a chain having open links in the form of a figure 8, with one loop at right angles to the other.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jack ketch — a public hangman.
- jack kilby — (person) (1924 - 2005-06-20) The electronics engineer who invented the integrated circuit in 1958 at Texas Instruments.
- jack plane — a plane for rough surfacing.
- jack staff — a flagstaff at the bow of a vessel, on which a jack is flown.
- jack towel — a long towel with the ends sewed together, for hanging on a roller.
- jack truss — any of a number of trapezoidal trusses for supporting those areas of a hip roof not beneath the peak or ridge, parallel to the truss or trusses that meet at the peak or ridge.
- jack-knife — a large pocketknife.
- jackanapes — an impertinent, presumptuous person, especially a young man; whippersnapper.
- jackassery — The foolish or obnoxious behaviour of a jackass.
- jackbooted — wearing jackboots.
- jacketless — Without a jacket (coat).
- jackhammer — a portable drill operated by compressed air and used to drill rock, break up pavement, etc.
- jackie tar — jackatar.
- jackknifed — Simple past tense and past participle of jackknife.
- jackknifes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jackknife.
- jackknives — Plural form of jackknife.
- jackrabbit — resembling a jack rabbit, as in suddenness or rapidity of movement: The car made a jackrabbit start when the traffic light turned green.
- jackscrews — Plural form of jackscrew.
- jackshafts — Plural form of jackshaft.
- jacksonian — of or relating to Andrew Jackson, his ideas, the period of his presidency, or the political principles or social values associated with him: Jacksonian democracy.
- jacksonism — the group of political principles or attitudes associated with Andrew Jackson.
- jackstones — Plural form of jackstone.
- jackstraws — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- jacky howe — (formerly) a sleeveless flannel shirt worn by sheep shearers
- jacob riis — Jacob August, 1849–1914, U.S. journalist and social reformer, born in Denmark.
- jacobethan — noting or pertaining to the architecture of England at the beginning of the 17th century.
- jacobinism — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jacobinize — to imbue with Jacobinism.
- jacqueline — a female given name.
- jacqueries — the revolt of the peasants of northern France against the nobles in 1358.
- jaculation — the act of hurling or throwing
- jaculatory — relating to hurling or throwing
- jade green — either of two minerals, jadeite or nephrite, sometimes green, highly esteemed as an ornamental stone for carvings, jewelry, etc.
- jade plant — a succulent shrub, Crassula argentea, of the stonecrop family, native to southern Africa, having fleshy, oval leaves, often grown as a houseplant.
- jadotville — former name of Likasi.
- jaggedness — The state of being jagged.
- jaguarondi — Alternative spelling of jaguarundi.
- jaguarundi — a long-bodied and long-tailed tropical wildcat, Felis yagouaroundi, having a brownish-gray coat and a second color phase of reddish-brown: now reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
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