9-letter words starting with jo
- job corps — an organization within the Department of Labor that operates rural conservation camps and urban training centers for poor youths.
- job offer — an offer of employment
- job order — a written order to a worker or group of workers to perform a certain job.
- job queue — a list of documents that are waiting to be printed
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job title — name of a professional role
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- jobcentre — Alternative spelling of Jobcentre.
- jobernowl — a stupid person; blockhead
- jobholder — a person who has a regular or steady job.
- jobseeker — A person seeking employment.
- jobstears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- jobsworth — (chiefly, British) A minor worker who refuses to be flexible in the application of rules to help a client or customer.
- jock itch — a fungal infection of the skin in the groin area, occurring most commonly in males, especially in warm climates, characterized by itchy and often scaly lesions; tinea cruris.
- jock scot — an artificial fly having a yellow floss body, black silk tag, scarlet and yellow tail, wings of scarlet and of jungle cock feathers spotted with yellow and gray, and hackle of guinea fowl and grouse feathers.
- jockeying — a person who rides horses professionally in races.
- jockeyish — resembling a jockey
- jockeyism — the skills and practices of jockeys
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- jockteleg — a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
- jocularly — given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious: jocular remarks about opera stars.
- joculator — (obsolete) A jester; a joker.
- jocundity — the state or an instance of being jocund; gaiety.
- joe blake — a snake
- joe louis — Joe (Joseph Louis Barrow) 1914–81, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1937–49.
- johannine — of or relating to the apostle John or to the books in the New Testament attributed to him.
- john bull — England; the English people.
- john dory — any fish of the family Zeidae, especially Zeus faber, of European seas, having a vertically compressed body and long spines in the dorsal fin.
- john held — John, Jr. 1889–1958, U.S. cartoonist, illustrator, and writer.
- john paul — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- john viii — died a.d. 882, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 872–882.
- john xiii — died a.d. 972, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 965–972.
- john xvii — (Sicco) died 1003, pope 1003.
- john xxii — (Jacques Duèse) c1244–1334, French ecclesiastic: pope 1316–34.
- johnboats — Plural form of johnboat.
- johnstown — a city in SW Pennsylvania: disastrous flood 1889.
- join duty — to report for work after a period of leave or a strike
- joined-up — In joined-up writing, you join all the letters in each word together, without taking your pen off the paper. This sort of writing is used by older children and adults.
- joint bar — one of a pair of bars used to join two rails longitudinally.
- joint ill — an infectious disease of newborn foals characterized by swollen inflamed joints and high fever, usually fatal.
- jointedly — In a jointed way; with, or by means of, joints.
- jointings — Plural form of jointing.
- jointless — without a joint; lacking a joint.
- jointness — The state or quality of being joint.
- jointress — a woman on whom a jointure has been settled.
- jointures — Plural form of jointure.
- jointweed — a plant of the buckwheat family, with jointed stems and clustered white or pink flowers
- jointworm — the larva of any of several chalcid flies of the family Eurytomidae, especially of the genus Harmolita, that feeds within the stems of grasses, often causing a gall near the first joint.
- joinville — Jean de [zhahn duh] /ʒɑ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1224?–1317, French chronicler.
- jokesmith — (jocular) A person who devises jokes.
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