13-letter words containing a, j
- jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
- jesus sandals — simple leather sandals of a type often worn by hippies
- jibber-jabber — foolish or worthless talk; nonsense
- jigsaw puzzle — Also called picture puzzle. a set of irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard, wood, or the like that form a picture or design when fitted together.
- job applicant — candidate for an advertised post
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- johann herder — Johann Gottfried von [yoh-hahn gawt-freet fuh n] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈgɔt frit fən/ (Show IPA), 1744–1803, German philosopher and poet.
- johann tetzel — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1465?–1519, German monk: antagonist of Martin Luther.
- john marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
- john mccarthy — (person, artificial intelligence) A pioneer of artificial intelligence (he coined ther term). He invented Lisp at MIT in the late 1950s and later worked at SAIL. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- john o'groats — the northern tip of Scotland, near Duncansby Head, NE Caithness, traditionally thought of as the northernmost point of Britain: from Land's End to John o'Groat's House.
- john of gaunt — John of, John of Gaunt.
- johnny canuck — a personification of Canada
- johnny collar — a small, pointed collar on a shirt, dress bodice, or the like, with close-fitting neckline.
- johnson grass — a sorghum, Sorghum halepense, that spreads by creeping rhizomes, grown for fodder.
- johore strait — a narrow strait between Malaya and Singapore Island
- joint account — a bank account in the names of two or more persons or parties and subject to withdrawals by each.
- joint manager — sb who shares authority and responsibility for sth
- joint partner — a person who shares the ownership of a firm or business equally with another or others
- joint tenancy — a holding of property, either real or personal, by two or more persons with each sharing the undivided interest, the entire tenancy passing to the survivor or survivors.
- jointer plane — a plane for truing the edges of boards, planing large surfaces, etc.
- jollification — jolly merrymaking; jolly festivity.
- jolly balance — a spring balance used for determining the density of a sample by comparison of its weight in air and water.
- jomo kenyatta — Jomo [joh-moh] /ˈdʒoʊ moʊ/ (Show IPA), 1893?–1978, Kenyan political leader: president 1964–78.
- jonathan spot — a disease of stored apples, especially the Jonathan, characterized by circular lesions on the fruit.
- jordan almond — a large, hard-shelled, Spanish almond used especially in confectionery.
- jordan engine — a machine for beating and refining pulp, used in manufacturing certain grades of paper.
- joseph crater — Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
- joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- joseph's coat — an ornamental species of pigweed (Amaranthus tricolor) having red, yellow, and green upper leaves
- joseph's-coat — a cultivated form of Amaranthus tricolor, having headlike clusters of small flowers and blotched and colored leaves.
- journal entry — sth written in a diary
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- juan de onate — Juan de [hwahn de] /ʰwɑn dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1550?–1624, Spanish explorer who colonized New Mexico.
- judah ha-levi — (Judah ben Samuel Halevi) 1085–1140, Spanish rabbi, physician, poet, and philosopher.
- judah ha-nasi — Judah, Judah ha-Nasi.
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- judicial sale — a forced sale of property authorized or required by a court of law in order to satisfy a debt etc
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
- julius caesar — Gaius Julius Caesar.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
- junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
- junior rating — a military rank for non-officer personnel in the navy
- jus canonicum — canon law.