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Jumper Lead
- noun - a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire; "it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads"
Junior High
- noun - a secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades
Jury Rigged
- unknown - Temporary repair done aboard ship
Jury-Rigged
- adjective - done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"
Kuiper Belt
- noun - a disk-shaped region of minor planets outside the orbit of Neptune
Kulturkampf
- - Lit., culture war; -- a name, originating with Virchow (1821 - 1902), given to a struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and the German government, chiefly over the latter's efforts to control educational and ecclesiastical appointments in the interest of the political policy of centralization. The struggle began with the passage by the Prussian Diet in May, 1873, of the so-called May laws, or Falk laws, aiming at the regulation of the clergy. Opposition eventually compelled the government to change its policy, and from 1880 to 1887 laws virtually nullifying the May laws were enacted.
Lubber Line
- noun - a fixed line on a ship''s compass indicating its heading
- a fixed line on a ship's compass indicating its heading
Lucubrating
- verb - add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
Lucubration
- noun - a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation
- laborious cogitation
Lucubratory
- - Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking.