(architecture) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.
disjasked
disjasket
disjasket
adj
Alternative form of disjaskit
disjaskit
disjaskit
adj
(UK, dialect) worn out
forjaskit
highjacks
highjacks
noun
plural of highjack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of highjack
hijackers
hijackers
noun
plural of hijacker
hijacking
hijacking
noun
The act of one who hijacks; the seizure of vehicles.
The instance of such an act; the seizure of a vehicle.
verb
present participle of hijack
jacketing
jacketing
noun
(countable, UK, dialect, archaic) A thrashing; a beating.
(countable, uncountable) A protective or insulating cover for an object; a jacket.
(countable, uncountable) Material used to make jackets.
verb
present participle of jacket
jackfruit
jackfruit
noun
A tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the Moraceae family, which produces edible fruit.
The large fruit from this tree.
jackknife
jackknife
noun
(statistics) A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate.
Alternative spelling of jack-knife
jacklight
jacklight
noun
(Canada, US) A spotlight or lamp mounted on a car.
verb
(hunting, US, Canada) To shine a jacklight or spotlight on an animal, usually a deer, to aid in hunting at night.
jacknifed
jacknives
jacksmith
jacksmith
noun
A smith who makes jacks.
jacksnipe
jacksnipe
noun
Lymnocryptes minimus, a migratory small stocky wader, the smallest of the snipes.
jacksonia
jailbreak
jailbreak
noun
(computing) A modification to the firmware of an electronic device (typically a mobile phone or tablet) to allow the installation and use of software not officially supported by the device's manufacturer.
verb
(transitive, computing) To modify the firmware of an electronic device, especially a mobile phone, in order to remove restrictions that prevent it from running unofficial software.