| jab | (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, poke, prod, stab |
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| (verb) strike or punch with quick and short blows | - |
| (verb) stab or pierce | Synonyms: stab |
| jabber | (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout |
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| jack | (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jacklight |
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| (verb) lift with a special device | Synonyms: jack up |
| jacket | (verb) put a jacket on | - |
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| (verb) provide with a thermally non-conducting cover | - |
| jackknife | (verb) dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife | - |
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| jacklight | (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jack |
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| jackrabbit | (verb) go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement | - |
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| jactitate | (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
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| jade | (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, pall, tire, weary |
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| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| jag | (verb) cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge | - |
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| jail | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| jam | (verb) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | Synonyms: block |
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| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jampack, ram, wad |
| (verb) get stuck and immobilized | - |
| (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: crush |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: mob, pack, pile, throng |
| (verb) push down forcibly | - |
| jampack | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, ram, wad |
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| jangle | (verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jingle-jangle, jingle |
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| japan | (verb) coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan | - |
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| jar | (verb) place in a cylindrical vessel | - |
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| (verb) affect in a disagreeable way | - |
| (verb) move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion | Synonyms: jolt |
| (verb) shock physically | Synonyms: bump around, shake up |
| (verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: clash, collide |
| jaundice | (verb) affect with, or as if with, jaundice | - |
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| (verb) distort adversely | - |
| jaunt | (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: travel, trip |
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| jaw | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| (verb) talk incessantly and tiresomely | Synonyms: rattle on, yack, yack away, yap away |
| (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, manducate, masticate |
| jawbone | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
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| jaywalk | (verb) cross the road at a red light | - |
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| jazz | (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
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| (verb) play something in the style of jazz | - |