10-Letter Words Containing: J,A,N,E,S

• To fold in the middle, as a jackknife does.

• To cause a semi-trailer truck to fold like a jackknife in a traffic accident.

• A compact folding knife.

• The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.

• A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.

• 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.

• To speak or write using jargon.

• To convert into jargon; to express using jargon.

• An infantry soldier, often of Christian descent and forcibly converted to Islam, in a former elite Turkish (Ottoman) guard (disbanded in 1826); by extension, any Turkish soldier, particularly one escorting a traveller.

• An elite, highly loyal supporter.

• someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

• a small short-billed Old World snipe

• American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting

• game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks

• a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball