| jurisdiction | (noun) (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law | Synonyms: legal power |
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| (noun) in law; the territory within which power can be exercised | - |
| jurisprudence | (noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | Synonyms: law, legal philosophy |
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| (noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority | Synonyms: law |
| jurist | (noun) a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations | Synonyms: legal expert |
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| (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: judge, justice |
| juror | (noun) someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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| jury | (noun) a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law | - |
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| (noun) a committee appointed to judge a competition | Synonyms: panel |
| juryman | (noun) a male who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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| jurywoman | (noun) a female who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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| justice | (noun) judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being just or fair | Synonyms: justness |
| (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: judge, jurist |
| justiciar | (noun) formerly a high judicial officer | Synonyms: justiciary |
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| justiciary | (noun) the jurisdiction of a justiciar | - |
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| (noun) formerly a high judicial officer | Synonyms: justiciar |
| justification | (noun) the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning | - |
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| (noun) something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary | - |
| (noun) a statement in explanation of some action or belief | - |
| justifier | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, vindicator |
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| justness | (noun) the quality of being just or fair | Synonyms: justice |
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| (noun) conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety | Synonyms: nicety, rightness |
| jut | (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jutting, projection, protrusion |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| jute | (noun) a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks | - |
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| jutting | (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, projection, protrusion |
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| juvenescence | (noun) the process of growing into a youth | - |
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| juvenile | (noun) a young person, not fully developed | Synonyms: juvenile person |
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| juvenility | (noun) the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person | Synonyms: youth, youthfulness |
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| (noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | Synonyms: callowness, jejuneness |
| juxtaposition | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: apposition, collocation |
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| (noun) a side-by-side position | - |
| keratoconjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva | - |
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| majuscule | (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, uppercase |
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| maladjustment | (noun) the condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability | - |
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| marijuana | (noun) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | Synonyms: cannabis, ganja, marihuana |
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| (noun) a strong-smelling plant whose dried leaves can be smoked for a pleasant effect or pain reduction | Synonyms: Cannabis sativa, ganja, marihuana |
| ninjutsu | (noun) the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage | Synonyms: ninjitsu |
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| nondisjunction | (noun) meiosis in which there is a failure of paired homologous chromosomes to separate; results in an abnormal number of chromosomes in the daughter cells | - |
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| objurgation | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: chiding, scolding, tongue-lashing |
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| perjurer | (noun) a person who deliberately gives false testimony | Synonyms: false witness |
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| perjury | (noun) criminal offense of making false statements under oath | Synonyms: bearing false witness, lying under oath |
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| prejudgement | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgment |
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| prejudgment | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgement |
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| prejudice | (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, preconception |
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| readjustment | (noun) the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances) | - |
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| (noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: adjustment, registration |
| rejuvenation | (noun) the act of restoring to a more youthful condition | - |
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| (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: greening |
| rejuvenescence | (noun) A renewal of youthful characteristics or vitality. | - |
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| showjumping | (noun) riding horses in competitions over set courses to demonstrate skill in jumping over obstacles | Synonyms: stadium jumping |
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| subjugation | (noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquering, conquest, subjection |
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| (noun) the act of subjugating by cruelty | Synonyms: oppression |
| (noun) forced submission to control by others | Synonyms: subjection |
| subjugator | (noun) a conqueror who defeats and enslaves | - |
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| subjunction | (noun) the act of supplementing | Synonyms: subjoining, supplementation |
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| subjunctive | (noun) a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible | Synonyms: subjunctive mood |
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| teju | (noun) large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard; raid henhouses; used as food | - |
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| thermojunction | (noun) a junction between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears | - |
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| unjustness | (noun) the practice of being unjust or unfair | Synonyms: injustice |
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