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16-letter words containing a, j

  • journeyman baker — a baker who is qualified to work in the employment of another
  • judaeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • judas maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).
  • judicial inquiry — a formal legal investigation conducted into a matter of public concern by a judge, appointed by the government
  • jump up and down — bounce
  • jurisdictionally — In a jurisdictional way.
  • juxtapositioning — Present participle of juxtaposition.
  • king james bible — Authorized Version.
  • laughing jackass — kookaburra.
  • lethal injection — dose of deadly chemical into a vein
  • lissajous figure — the series of plane curves traced by an object executing two mutually perpendicular harmonic motions.
  • literacy project — a project, plan or scheme to increase literacy in a country, area, etc
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • majority carrier — the entity responsible for carrying the greater part of the current in a semiconductor. In n-type semiconductors the majority carriers are electrons; in p-type semiconductors they are positively charged holes
  • majority opinion — an opinion in a case that is shared by more than half of the members of a court
  • majority verdict — a decision supported by more than half, but not all, the jury
  • mauchly, john w. — John Mauchly
  • middelmannetjies — Plural form of middelmannetjie.
  • new jack (swing) — a style of rhythm-and-blues music blending rap, disco, funk, soul, etc. and characterized by aggressive, boastful, romantic lyrics
  • new orleans jazz — the jazz originating in New Orleans from about 1914; traditional jazz
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
  • opaque projector — a machine for projecting opaque objects, as books, on a screen, by means of reflected light.
  • ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • orthodox judaism — Judaism as observed by Orthodox Jews.
  • overall majority — If a political party wins an overall majority in an election or vote, they get more votes than the total number of votes or seats won by all their opponents.
  • pancreatic juice — a thick, colorless, very alkaline fluid secreted by the pancreas, containing enzymes that break down protein, fat, and starch.
  • pectoralis major — the larger of the two large chest muscles that assist in movements of the shoulder and upper arm
  • primrose jasmine — an evergreen shrub, Jasminum mesnyi, of China, having thick, shiny leaflets and yellow flowers with a darker eye.
  • print journalism — journalism as practiced in newspapers and magazines.
  • private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
  • progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
  • project guardian — (project, security)   A project which grew out of the ARPA support for Multics and the sale of Multics systems to the US Air Force. The USAF wanted a system that could be used to handle more than one security classification of data at a time. They contracted with Honeywell and MITRE Corporation to figure out how to do this. Project Guardian led to the creation of the Access Isolation Mechanism, the forerunner of the B2 labeling and star property support in Multics. The DoD Orange Book was influenced by the experience in building secure systems gained in Project Guardian.
  • project planning — project management
  • projection paper — sensitized paper for recording a projected image.
  • projective plane — (mathematics)   The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
  • proper adjective — an adjective formed from a proper noun, as American from America.
  • romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
  • saint-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
  • saint-john-night — Midsummer Eve.
  • san juan islands — a group of islands between NW Washington, US, and SE Vancouver Island, Canada: administratively part of Washington
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • share and enjoy! — 1. Commonly found at the end of software release announcements and README files, this phrase indicates allegiance to the hacker ethic of free information sharing (see hacker ethic). 2. The motto of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (the ultimate gaggle of incompetent suits) in Douglas Adams's "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The irony of using this as a cultural recognition signal appeals to freeware hackers.
  • sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
  • showcase project — a project designed to attract attention and show off the abilities of the people involved in it
  • st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
  • stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
  • summary judgment — a judgment, as in an action for debt, that is entered without the necessity of jury trial, based on affidavits of the creditor and debtor that convince the court that there is no arguable issue.
  • thomas jefferson — Joseph, 1829–1905, U.S. actor.
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