Phrase Hound found 155 phrases and 39 compound words that contain joint. The most common are listed below. Open joint in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 155
- joint ventureA cooperative partnership between two individuals or businesses in which profits and risks are shared.
- out of jointDislocated.
- joint venturesplural of joint venture: A cooperative partnership between two individuals or businesses in which profits and risks are shared.
- joint-stock companyA company with transferable ownership interests and limited shareholder liability.
- universal jointA coupling that allows different parts of a machine not in line with each other some freedom of movement at the same time as transmitting rotary motion. Typical applications include driveshafts and socket wrenches.
- Joint Resolution
- case the jointTo thoroughly observe or examine a place, in order to familiarize oneself with its workings in preparation for criminal activity, often robbery.
- Joint Pain
- joint accountA bank account owned jointly by two or more persons.
- joint and severalUndertaken by or assigned to two or more parties, each having liability for the entire obligation.
- hip jointA joint formed where the pelvic acetabulum and the head of the femur meet.
- joint committeeIn a bicameral legislative body, a decision-making entity composed of members of both houses.
- cases the jointthird-person singular simple present indicative of case the joint: To thoroughly observe or examine a place, in order to familiarize oneself with its workings in preparation for criminal activity, often robbery.
- joint familyA household consisting of two or more closely-related nuclear families, such as two or more brothers along with their wives and children, or multiple generations along with spouses.
- butt jointA joint formed by adjacent, separate section of material, such as where two neighboring pieces of insulation abut.
- Joint work
- joint lineA railway that is or was owned and operated by more than one company.
- joint custodyAn arrangement whereby parents or guardians (who are not a couple or cease to be one) share the physical and legal custody of a child.
- clip jointAn establishment, usually a strip club or bar, in which customers are tricked into paying money only to receive poor goods or services or none at all.
- joint lockAny lock designed to hyperextend one of the joints of the body, leading to pain and/or injury.
- joint probabilityThe probability distribution of a random variable whose sample space is the Cartesian product of the sample spaces of its (at least two) component random variables.
- finger jointA joint, usually glued, in which multiple integral protrusions are fit into mating slots, used especially for manufacturing long moldings.
- strip jointSynonym of strip club: An establishment offering striptease or other erotic dancing.
- plane jointA synovial joint that allows only gliding movement.
- neck jointΤhe junction where the neck (fretted or unfretted) meets the body of a stringed instrument.
Compound words 39
- kneejointThe joint of the knee.
- jointnessThe state or quality of being joint.
- jointeryCooperation between discrete military branches; the use of joint forces in an operation.
- jointfirAn ephedra (Ephedra distachya)
- jointyHaving joints; jointed.
- slipjointA type of joint for a folding knife, involving a spring that helps hold the blade open against some pressure but does not lock it open in the sense of any positive engagement by the parts of any lock mechanism; it is thus a nonlocking type …
- nonjointNot joint.
- railjointAlternative form of rail joint: A join between two rails in a railway track placed end to end; the rails are joined by fishplates where joints are not welded.
- abjointTo form by cutting off as a protrusion from a parent cell.
- fishjointA joint or splice made with fishplates.