| abjuration | (noun) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion | Synonyms: recantation, retraction |
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| abjurer | (noun) a person who abjures | - |
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| adjudication | (noun) the final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented | - |
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| adjudicator | (noun) a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes | - |
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| adjunct | (noun) a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence | - |
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| (noun) something added to another thing but not an essential part of it | - |
| (noun) a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another | - |
| adjunction | (noun) an act of joining or adjoining things | Synonyms: junction |
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| adjuration | (noun) a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something | - |
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| adjuster | (noun) one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement | Synonyms: adjustor, claim agent, claims adjuster, claims adjustor |
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| adjustment | (noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: alteration, modification |
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| (noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: readjustment, registration |
| (noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: accommodation, fitting |
| (noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances | Synonyms: allowance |
| (noun) the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) | Synonyms: adaptation, adaption |
| adjustor | (noun) one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement | Synonyms: adjuster, claim agent, claims adjuster, claims adjustor |
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| adjutant | (noun) large Indian stork with a military gait | Synonyms: adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius |
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| (noun) an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer | Synonyms: aide-de-camp, aide |
| adjuvant | (noun) an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment | - |
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| coadjutor | (noun) an assistant to a bishop | - |
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| conjugate | (noun) a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A | Synonyms: conjugate solution |
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| conjugation | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union |
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| (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: jointure, unification, union, uniting |
| (noun) a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms | - |
| (noun) the complete set of inflected forms of a verb | - |
| (noun) the inflection of verbs | - |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjunction, junction |
| conjunction | (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: junction |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunctive, connective, continuative |
| (noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: alignment |
| (noun) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction | - |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, junction |
| conjunctiva | (noun) a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid | - |
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| conjunctive | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
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| conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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| conjuncture | (noun) a critical combination of events or circumstances | - |
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| conjuration | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuring, conjury, invocation |
| (noun) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect | Synonyms: incantation |
| conjurer | (noun) a witch doctor who practices conjury | Synonyms: conjure man, conjuror |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjuror, illusionist, magician, prestidigitator |
| conjuring | (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjury, invocation |
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| conjuror | (noun) a witch doctor who practices conjury | Synonyms: conjure man, conjurer |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, illusionist, magician, prestidigitator |
| conjury | (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring, invocation |
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| disjunction | (noun) the act of breaking a connection | Synonyms: disconnection |
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| (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjuncture |
| disjuncture | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction |
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| injudiciousness | (noun) the trait of being injudicious | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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| (noun) lacking good judgment | Synonyms: indiscreetness |
| injunction | (noun) a formal command or admonition | - |
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| (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment |
| injuriousness | (noun) destructiveness that causes harm or injury | Synonyms: harmfulness |
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| injury | (noun) wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted | - |
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| (noun) an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage | - |
| (noun) an accident that results in physical damage or hurt | Synonyms: accidental injury |
| (noun) a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat | Synonyms: combat injury, wound |
| (noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: harm, hurt, trauma |
| injustice | (noun) an unjust act | Synonyms: iniquity, shabbiness, unfairness |
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| (noun) the practice of being unjust or unfair | Synonyms: unjustness |
| jejuneness | (noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejunity, tameness, vapidity, vapidness |
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| (noun) quality of inadequate nutritive value | Synonyms: jejunity |
| (noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | Synonyms: callowness, juvenility |
| jejunitis | (noun) inflammation of the jejunum of the small intestine | - |
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| jejunity | (noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness |
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| (noun) quality of inadequate nutritive value | Synonyms: jejuneness |
| jejunoileitis | (noun) inflammation of the jejunum and the ileum of the small intestine | - |
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| jejunostomy | (noun) surgical creation of an opening between the jejunum and the anterior abdominal wall; will allow artificial feeding | - |
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| jejunum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum | - |
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| jubilance | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilancy, jubilation |
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| jubilancy | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilation |
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| jubilation | (noun) the utterance of sounds expressing great joy | Synonyms: exultation, rejoicing |
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| (noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: celebration |
| (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilancy |
| jubilee | (noun) a special anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| judas | (noun) a one-way peephole in a door | - |
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| judge | (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: jurist, justice |
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| (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: evaluator |
| judgement | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgment, judicial decision |
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| (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgment |
| (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgment, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judging, judgment |
| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgment, mind |
| (noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgment, legal opinion, opinion |
| judgeship | (noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judicature |
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| judging | (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
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| judgment | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgement, judicial decision |
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| (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgement |
| (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judging |
| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgement, mind |
| (noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgement, legal opinion, opinion |
| judicatory | (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicature, judicial system, judiciary |
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| judicature | (noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: administration |
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| (noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judgeship |
| (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicatory, judicial system, judiciary |
| (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: court, tribunal |
| judiciary | (noun) persons who administer justice | Synonyms: bench |
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| (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicatory, judicature, judicial system |
| judiciousness | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: sagaciousness, sagacity |
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| (noun) good judgment | - |
| judo | (noun) a sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan | - |
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| jug | (noun) a large bottle with a narrow mouth | - |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a jug | Synonyms: jugful |
| jugale | (noun) the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone | Synonyms: jugal point |
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| jugful | (noun) the quantity contained in a jug | Synonyms: jug |
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| juggernaut | (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| juggle | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggling |
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| (noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggling |
| juggler | (noun) a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity | - |
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| jugglery | (noun) the performance of a juggler | - |
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| (noun) artful trickery designed to achieve an end | - |
| juggling | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggle |
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| (noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggle |
| jugular | (noun) a vital part that is vulnerable to attack | - |
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| (noun) veins in the neck that return blood from the head | Synonyms: jugular vein, vena jugularis |
| juice | (noun) any of several liquids of the body | Synonyms: succus |
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| (noun) the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking | - |
| (noun) electric current | - |
| (noun) energetic vitality | - |
| juicer | (noun) a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit | Synonyms: juice reamer, reamer |
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| (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, imbiber, toper |
| juiciness | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: succulence, succulency |
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| jujitsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jiujitsu, jujutsu |
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| juju | (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, fetish, hoodoo, voodoo |
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| (noun) the power associated with a juju | - |
| jujube | (noun) chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat) | - |
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| (noun) dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees | Synonyms: Chinese date, Chinese jujube |
| (noun) spiny tree having dark red edible fruits | Synonyms: Christ's-thorn, Jerusalem thorn, jujube bush, Ziziphus jujuba |
| jujutsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jiujitsu, jujitsu |
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| juke | (noun) (football) a deceptive move made by a football player | Synonyms: fake |
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| (noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook, jook house, jook joint, juke house, juke joint |
| jukebox | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: nickelodeon |
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| julep | (noun) bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice | Synonyms: mint julep |
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| julienne | (noun) a vegetable cut into thin strips | Synonyms: julienne vegetable |
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| (noun) a clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables | - |
| jumbal | (noun) small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie | Synonyms: jumble |
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| jumble | (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: hodgepodge, patchwork |
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| (noun) small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie | Synonyms: jumbal |
| (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
| jumbojet | (noun) a very large jet plane | Synonyms: jumbo jet |
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| jument | (noun) an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work | Synonyms: beast of burden |
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| jump | (noun) the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground | Synonyms: jumping |
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| (noun) a sudden involuntary movement | Synonyms: start, startle |
| (noun) descent with a parachute | Synonyms: parachuting |
| (noun) (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another | - |
| (noun) an abrupt transition | Synonyms: leap, saltation |
| (noun) a sudden and decisive increase | Synonyms: leap |
| jumper | (noun) (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump | Synonyms: jump shot |
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| (noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: pinafore, pinny |
| (noun) a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen | - |
| (noun) a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections | - |
| (noun) a coverall worn by children | - |
| (noun) a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body | Synonyms: sweater |
| (noun) an athlete who competes at jumping | - |
| (noun) a person who jumps | - |
| jumpiness | (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jitteriness, nervousness, restiveness |
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| jumping | (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump | - |
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| (noun) the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground | Synonyms: jump |
| jumpstart | (noun) starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car | Synonyms: jump-start |
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| jumpsuit | (noun) one-piece garment fashioned after a parachutist's uniform | Synonyms: jump suit |
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| junco | (noun) small North American finch seen chiefly in winter | Synonyms: snowbird |
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| junction | (noun) an act of joining or adjoining things | Synonyms: adjunction |
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| (noun) the place where two or more things come together | - |
| (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: conjunction |
| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, joint, juncture |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, conjunction |
| juncture | (noun) an event that occurs at a critical time | Synonyms: occasion |
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| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, joint, junction |
| (noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, crossroads |
| juneberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry |
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| jungle | (noun) a place where hoboes camp | Synonyms: hobo camp |
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| (noun) an impenetrable equatorial forest | - |
| (noun) a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival | - |
| junior | (noun) the younger of two persons | - |
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| (noun) a third-year undergraduate | - |
| (noun) term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male | - |
| juniper | (noun) wood of a coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones | - |
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| (noun) desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista | Synonyms: Genista raetam, juniper bush, raetam, Retama raetam, retem |
| (noun) coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones | - |
| junk | (noun) any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails | - |
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| (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, rubble |
| junket | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (noun) a trip taken by an official at public expense | - |
| (noun) dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet | - |
| junketing | (noun) taking an excursion for pleasure | - |
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| junkie | (noun) a narcotics addict | Synonyms: drug addict, junky |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junky, nut |
| junky | (noun) a narcotics addict | Synonyms: drug addict, junkie |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junkie, nut |
| junkyard | (noun) a field where junk is collected and stored for resale | - |
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| junta | (noun) a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power | Synonyms: military junta |
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| junto | (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, camarilla, faction |
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| jupati | (noun) a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes | Synonyms: jupati palm, jupaty, Raffia taedigera |
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| jupaty | (noun) a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes | Synonyms: jupati, jupati palm, Raffia taedigera |
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