12-letter words starting with ja
- jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
- jack-a-dandy — dandy (def 1).
- jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
- jackarooesse — (Australia, obsolete, rare) A female jackaroo.
- jackass bark — a barkentine square-rigged on the mainmast above a gaff mainsail.
- jackass brig — a two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast with a fore-and-aft mainsail; brigantine.
- jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- jacobinizing — Present participle of jacobinize.
- jactitations — Plural form of jactitation.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jaffa orange — a sweet, almost seedless variety of orange grown principally in Israel.
- jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
- jamal ud-din — (Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani) 1838–97, Muslim educator and political leader, born in Persia: founder of modern Pan-Islamism.
- james dickey — James, 1923–97, U.S. poet and novelist.
- james edward — Stuart, James Francis Edward.
- james harper — James, 1795–1869, and his brothers John, 1797–1875, (Joseph) Wesley, 1801–70, and Fletcher, 1806–77, U.S. printers and publishers.
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- james k polk — James Knox, 1795–1849, the 11th president of the U.S. 1845–49.
- jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
- jan gossaert — Jan [Flemish yahn] /Flemish yɑn/ (Show IPA), (Jan Gossaert or Gossart) 1478?–1533? Flemish painter.
- jane goodall — Jane, born 1934, English primatologist and zoologist.
- japan clover — a drought-resistant bush clover, Lespedeza striata, of the legume family, introduced to the southern Atlantic states from Asia, having numerous tiny trifoliate leaves valued for pasturage and hay.
- japanese ivy — Boston ivy
- japanese yew — a yew, Taxus cuspidata, of Japan, grown as an ornamental.
- japonaiserie — stylistic characteristics, as in art, decor, or film, influenced by or reflective of Japanese culture and tradition.
- jasmine rice — an aromatic, flavorful long-grain rice of Asia, especially Thailand.
- jataka tales — a body of literature comprising accounts of previous lives of the Buddha
- jaunting car — a light, two-wheeled, one-horse cart, once common in Ireland, having two seats set back to back, with a perch in front for the driver.
- 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.
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