| disjoint | (adjective) having no elements in common | - |
|---|
| (verb) become separated, disconnected or disjoint | Synonyms: disjoin |
| (verb) make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of | Synonyms: disjoin |
| (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disarticulate |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
| disjointed | (adjective) taken apart at the joints | - |
|---|
| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| (adjective) separated at the joint | Synonyms: dislocated, separated |
| disjointedly | (adverb) in a disjointed manner | - |
|---|
| disjointedness | (noun) lacking order or coherence | - |
|---|
| disjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second | - |
|---|
| (adjective) used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations | - |
| (adjective) having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects | - |
| (adjective) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements | Synonyms: isolated |
| disjunction | (noun) the act of breaking a connection | Synonyms: disconnection |
|---|
| (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjuncture |
| disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
|---|
| disjuncture | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction |
|---|
| djinn | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinni, djinny, genie, jinnee, jinni |
|---|
| djinni | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinny, genie, jinnee, jinni |
|---|
| djinny | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, genie, jinnee, jinni |
|---|
| dojigger | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
|---|
| donjon | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: dungeon, keep |
|---|
| doorjamb | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorpost |
|---|
| dwojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using equal amounts of water and honey. | - |
|---|
| ejaculate | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, cum, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
|---|
| (verb) eject semen | - |
| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out |
| ejaculation | (noun) an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion | Synonyms: interjection |
|---|
| (noun) the discharge of semen in males | - |
| ejaculator | (noun) a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation | - |
|---|
| (noun) a man who ejaculates semen | - |
| eject | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, exhaust, expel, release |
|---|
| (verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: force out, squeeze out, squirt |
| (verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, exclude, turf out, turn out |
| (verb) leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule | - |
| ejection | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: exclusion, expulsion, riddance |
|---|
| (noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | Synonyms: expulsion, forcing out, projection |
| ejective | (noun) a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis. | Synonyms: ejective consonant |
|---|
| ejector | (noun) a mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing | Synonyms: cartridge ejector |
|---|
| (noun) An injector, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, eductor-jet pump or thermocompressor is a type of pump. | Synonyms: eductor-jet pump, injector, steam ejector, steam injector, thermocompressor |
| (noun) a person who ousts or supplants someone else | Synonyms: ouster |
| emoji | (noun) ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and Web pages | - |
|---|
| enjambement | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambment |
|---|
| enjambment | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambement |
|---|
| enjoin | (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: order, say, tell |
|---|
| (verb) issue an injunction | - |
| enjoining | (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, enjoinment, injunction |
|---|
| enjoinment | (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, injunction |
|---|
| enjoy | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: delight, revel |
|---|
| (verb) have benefit from | - |
| (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, relish, savor, savour |
| (verb) get pleasure from | Synonyms: love |
| (verb) have for one's benefit | - |
| enjoyable | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: gratifying, pleasurable |
|---|
| enjoyableness | (noun) pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed | - |
|---|
| enjoyably | (adverb) in an enjoyable manner | Synonyms: agreeably, pleasantly |
|---|
| enjoyer | (noun) a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something | - |
|---|
| enjoyment | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: delectation |
|---|
| (noun) (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property | Synonyms: use |
| (noun) the pleasure felt when having a good time | - |
| extrajudicial | (adjective) beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted | - |
|---|
| fanjet | (noun) a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet engine, turbofan, turbofan engine, turbojet, turbojet engine |
|---|
| (noun) an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine | Synonyms: fan-jet, turbofan, turbojet |
| feijoa | (noun) dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves | Synonyms: pineapple guava |
|---|
| (noun) South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit | Synonyms: feijoa bush |
| fjord | (noun) a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway | Synonyms: fiord |
|---|
| flapjack | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
|---|
| frijol | (noun) the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans) | Synonyms: frijole, kidney bean |
|---|
| frijole | (noun) Mexican bean; usually dried | - |
|---|
| (noun) the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans) | Synonyms: frijol, kidney bean |
| frijolillo | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolito, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
|---|
| frijolito | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolillo, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
|---|
| fuji | (noun) shrubby Japanese cherry tree having pale pink blossoms | Synonyms: fuji cherry, Prunus incisa |
|---|
| ganja | (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, marihuana, marijuana |
|---|
| (noun) a strong-smelling plant whose dried leaves can be smoked for a pleasant effect or pain reduction | Synonyms: Cannabis sativa, marihuana, marijuana |
| goujon | (noun) large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw | Synonyms: flathead catfish, mudcat, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish |
|---|
| hadj | (noun) the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba | Synonyms: haj, hajj |
|---|
| hadji | (noun) an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca | Synonyms: haji, hajji |
|---|
| haj | (noun) the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba | Synonyms: hadj, hajj |
|---|
| haji | (noun) an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca | Synonyms: hadji, hajji |
|---|
| hajj | (noun) the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba | Synonyms: hadj, haj |
|---|
| hajji | (noun) an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca | Synonyms: hadji, haji |
|---|
| (noun) a general term used by foreign soldiers to refer to the Iraqi people | - |
| hallelujah | (noun) a shout or song of praise to God | - |
|---|
| hejira | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: exodus, hegira |
|---|
| highjack | (noun) seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination | Synonyms: hijack |
|---|
| (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, hijack, pirate |
| highjacker | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highwayman, hijacker, road agent |
|---|
| (noun) someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination | Synonyms: hijacker |
| highjacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: hijacking |
|---|
| hijab | (noun) the custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home | - |
|---|
| (noun) a headscarf worn by Muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face | - |
| hijack | (noun) seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination | Synonyms: highjack |
|---|
| (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, highjack, pirate |
| (verb) seize control of | - |
| hijacker | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highjacker, highwayman, road agent |
|---|
| (noun) someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination | Synonyms: highjacker |
| hijacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: highjacking |
|---|
| hijinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, jinks |
|---|
| ijtihad | (noun) the endeavor of a Muslim scholar to derive a rule of divine law from the Koran and Hadith without relying on the views of other scholars; by the end of the 10th century theologians decided that debate on such matters would be closed and Muslim theology and law were frozen | - |
|---|
| inject | (verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: shoot |
|---|
| (verb) to introduce (a new aspect or element) | - |
| (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, interject, interpose, put in, throw in |
| (verb) feed intravenously | - |
| (verb) take by injection | - |
| (verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: shoot |
| injectable | (adjective) (used of drugs) capable of being injected | - |
|---|
| injectant | (noun) any solution that is injected (as into the skin) | Synonyms: injection |
|---|
| injection | (noun) the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure | - |
|---|
| (noun) the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) any solution that is injected (as into the skin) | Synonyms: injectant |
| injectiveness | (noun) (mathematics) The state or quality of relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain). | - |
|---|
| injector | (noun) a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.) | - |
|---|
| (noun) An injector, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, eductor-jet pump or thermocompressor is a type of pump. | Synonyms: eductor-jet pump, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, thermocompressor |
| injudicious | (adjective) lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise | - |
|---|
| injudiciously | (adverb) in an injudicious manner | - |
|---|
| injudiciousness | (noun) the trait of being injudicious | Synonyms: indiscretion |
|---|
| (noun) lacking good judgment | Synonyms: indiscreetness |
| injunction | (noun) a formal command or admonition | - |
|---|
| (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 |
| injure | (verb) cause injuries or bodily harm to | Synonyms: wound |
|---|
| (verb) cause damage or affect negatively | Synonyms: hurt |
| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, offend, spite, wound |
| injured | (adjective) harmed | - |
|---|
| (adjective) emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed | Synonyms: offended, pained |
| injurious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: deleterious, hurtful |
|---|
| injuriously | (adverb) in an injurious manner | - |
|---|
| injuriousness | (noun) destructiveness that causes harm or injury | Synonyms: harmfulness |
|---|
| injury | (noun) wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted | - |
|---|
| (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 |
|---|
| (noun) the practice of being unjust or unfair | Synonyms: unjustness |
| interject | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interpose, put in, throw in |
|---|
| interjection | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interpellation, interpolation, interposition |
|---|
| (noun) an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion | Synonyms: ejaculation |
| introject | (noun) (psychoanalysis) parental figures (and their values) that you introjected as a child; the voice of conscience is usually a parent's voice internalized | - |
|---|
| (verb) incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously | - |
| introjected | (adjective) incorporated unconsciously into your own psyche | - |
|---|
| introjection | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the internalization of the parent figures and their values; leads to the formation of the superego | - |
|---|
| (noun) (psychology) unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that the internalized representation takes over the psychological functions of the external objects | - |
| j | (noun) the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: J |
|---|
| jab | (noun) a quick short straight punch | - |
|---|
| (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jabbing, poke, poking, thrust, thrusting |
| (noun) the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow | Synonyms: dig |
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, poke, prod, stab |
| (verb) strike or punch with quick and short blows | - |
| (verb) stab or pierce | Synonyms: stab |
| jabber | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: gabble, jabbering |
|---|
| (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout |
| jabberer | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: driveller |
|---|
| jabbering | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: gabble, jabber |
|---|
| jabberwocky | (noun) nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) | - |
|---|
| jabbing | (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, poke, poking, thrust, thrusting |
|---|
| jabiru | (noun) large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America | Synonyms: Jabiru mycteria |
|---|
| (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, saddlebill |
| (noun) large mostly white Australian stork | Synonyms: black-necked stork, policeman bird, Xenorhyncus asiaticus |
| jaboncillo | (noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, chinaberry, false dogwood, Sapindus saponaria |
|---|
| jabot | (noun) a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt | - |
|---|
| jaboticaba | (noun) tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil | - |
|---|
| (noun) small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches | Synonyms: jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria cauliflora |
| jacamar | (noun) tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage | - |
|---|
| jacaranda | (noun) an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black | Synonyms: Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, Dalbergia nigra |
|---|
| jacinth | (noun) a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone | Synonyms: hyacinth |
|---|
| jack | (noun) any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas | - |
|---|
| (noun) male donkey | Synonyms: jackass |
| (noun) tool for exerting pressure or lifting | - |
| (noun) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince | Synonyms: knave |
| (noun) small flag indicating a ship's nationality | - |
| (noun) game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks | Synonyms: jackstones |
| (noun) an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug | - |
| (noun) a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling | - |
| (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jackfruit, jak |
| (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: laborer, labourer, manual laborer |
| (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, shit, squat |
| (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jacklight |
| (verb) lift with a special device | Synonyms: jack up |