8-letter words starting with jo
- job bank — a data file or agency for matching persons seeking work with suitable job openings.
- job case — any of various cases for holding type, especially one of several that accommodate both uppercase and lowercase letters. Compare California job case, case2 (def 8).
- job hunt — search for employment
- job loss — the act or an instance of a person losing his or her job
- job shop — an agency or plant that supplies technical personnel or performs a specific function in a manufacturing process, usually on short-term temporary contracts.
- job work — miscellaneous printing work, as distinguished from books, periodicals, etc.
- job-hunt — to seek employment; look for a job.
- jobation — an extensive rebuke; scolding
- jobshare — an arrangement in which two or more people divide the duties and payment for one position between them, working at different times
- jochebed — the mother of Aaron and Moses. Ex. 6:20.
- jockette — a female jockey
- jockeyed — Simple past tense and past participle of jockey.
- jocosely — given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful: a jocose and amusing manner.
- jocosity — the state or quality of being jocose.
- jocundly — In a jocund manner.
- jodhpuri — of or relating to Jodhpur or its inhabitants
- jodhpurs — Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
- joe blow — an average citizen; man in the street.
- joe code — /joh' kohd"/ 1. Code that is overly tense and unmaintainable. "Perl may be a handy program, but if you look at the source, it's complete joe code." 2. Badly written, possibly buggy code. Correspondents wishing to remain anonymous have fingered a particular Joe at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and observed that usage has drifted slightly; the original sobriquet "Joe code" was intended in sense 1.
- joe soap — a person who is regarded as unintelligent and imposed upon as a stooge or scapegoat
- jog trot — a slow, regular, jolting pace, as of a horse.
- joggling — Present participle of joggle.
- jogpants — a pair of trousers worn for jogging
- johannes — a gold coin formerly used as currency in Portugal, first issued in the early 18th century.
- john dee — John, 1527–1608, English mathematician and astrologer.
- john doe — an anonymous, average man.
- john hay — John Milton, 1838–1905, U.S. statesman and author.
- john hop — a policeman
- john iii — (Catelinus) died a.d. 574, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 561–574.
- john law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- john vii — died a.d. 707, Greek ecclesiastic: pope 705–707.
- john xii — (Octavian) died a.d. 964, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 955–964.
- john xiv — died a.d. 984, pope 983–984.
- john xix — died 1032, pope 1024–32.
- john xxi — (Petrus Hispanus) died 1277, Portuguese ecclesiastic: pope 1276–77.
- johnboat — a light, square-ended, flat-bottomed skiff, used in shallow water.
- johnniac — (computer) A mainframe computer based on a design by John von Neuman built at the Institute for Advanced Study, USA. The Johnniac went live in 1953 and was decommissioned in 1966. Its memory consisted of 80 special "Selectron" vacuum tubes, each of which held 256 bits of data.
- johnnies — Plural form of johnny.
- johnsons — Plural form of johnson.
- johnston — Albert Sidney, 1803–62, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
- joinable — That can be joined.
- joinders — Plural form of joinder.
- jointers — Plural form of jointer.
- jointing — The act of making a joint.
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- joinvile — a seaport in S Brazil.
- jokebook — a book of jokes.
- jokeless — Devoid of jokes.
- jokesome — Joky, humorous.
- jokester — a joker, especially a practical joker.
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