jawbone | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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(verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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(noun) a large round hard candy | - |
jawed | (adjective) of animals having jaws of a specified type | - |
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jawfish | (noun) small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes | - |
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jawless | (adjective) of animals having no jaw | - |
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jay | (noun) crested largely blue bird | - |
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jaybird | (noun) common jay of eastern North America; bright blue with grey breast | Synonyms: blue jay, Cyanocitta cristata |
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jaywalk | (verb) cross the road at a red light | - |
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jaywalker | (noun) a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally | - |
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jazz | (noun) a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | - |
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(noun) a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands | - |
(noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, malarkey, malarky, nothingness, wind |
(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 |
(verb) play something in the style of jazz | - |
jazzman | (noun) a musician who plays or composes jazz music | Synonyms: jazz musician |
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jazzy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, showy, sporty |
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(adjective) resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm) | - |
jealous | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, envious |
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(adjective) suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival | Synonyms: green-eyed, overjealous |
jealously | (adverb) with jealousy | - |
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(adverb) with jealousy; in an envious manner | Synonyms: covetously, enviously |
jealousy | (noun) zealous vigilance | - |
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(noun) a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) | Synonyms: green-eyed monster |
jean | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, dungaree |
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jeans | (noun) (used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear | Synonyms: blue jeans, denim |
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jeep | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: landrover |
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jeer | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
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(verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, scoff |
jeerer | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, mocker, scoffer |
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jeering | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, mocking, taunting |
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(noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
jeeringly | (adverb) in a disrespectful jeering manner | Synonyms: gibingly, mockingly |
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jehad | (noun) a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | Synonyms: jihad |
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jejune | (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, juvenile, puerile |
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(adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, poor, short |
(adjective) lacking interest or significance or impact | Synonyms: insipid |
jejunely | (adverb) in an immature manner | Synonyms: immaturely |
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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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jell | (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: congeal, set |
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jellaba | (noun) a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa | - |
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jelled | (adjective) congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling | Synonyms: congealed, jellied |
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jellied | (adjective) congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling | Synonyms: congealed, jelled |
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jellify | (verb) become jelly | - |
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(verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jelly |
jello | (noun) fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder | Synonyms: Jell-O |
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jelly | (noun) a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit | - |
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(noun) an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods | Synonyms: gelatin |
(noun) any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin | - |
(verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jellify |
jellyfish | (noun) any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | - |
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(noun) large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles | Synonyms: man-of-war, Portuguese man-of-war |
jellyleaf | (noun) herb widely distributed in tropics and subtropics used for forage and medicinally as a demulcent and having a fine soft bast stronger than jute; sometimes an aggressive weed | Synonyms: Queensland hemp, Sida rhombifolia |
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jellylike | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, gelatinous |
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jellyroll | (noun) thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake | Synonyms: Swiss roll |
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jemmy | (noun) a short crowbar | Synonyms: jimmy |
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jennet | (noun) female donkey | Synonyms: jenny, jenny ass |
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jenny | (noun) female donkey | Synonyms: jennet, jenny ass |
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jeopardise | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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jeopardize | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, stake, venture |
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(verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, menace, peril, threaten |
jeopardy | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, hazard, peril, risk |
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jerboa | (noun) mouselike jumping rodent | - |
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jeremiad | (noun) a long and mournful complaint | - |
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jerk | (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerking, jolt, saccade |
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(noun) a sudden abrupt pull | Synonyms: tug |
(noun) raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms | - |
(noun) meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun | Synonyms: jerked meat, jerky |
(noun) a dull stupid fatuous person | Synonyms: dork |
(noun) (mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration | - |
(verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: twitch |
(verb) throw or toss with a quick motion | Synonyms: flick |
(verb) pull, or move with a sudden movement | Synonyms: yank |
(verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: twitch |
(verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, hitch |
jerker | (noun) someone who gives a strong sudden pull | Synonyms: yanker |
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jerkily | (adverb) with jerking motions | - |
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(adverb) with spasms | Synonyms: spasmodically |
jerkin | (noun) a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times | - |
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jerkiness | (noun) the quality of being spasmodic and irregular | Synonyms: fitfulness |
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jerking | (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerky |
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(noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jolt, saccade |
jerkwater | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: one-horse, pokey, poky |
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jerky | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy |
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(adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: choppy |
(adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerking |
(noun) meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun | Synonyms: jerk, jerked meat |
jeroboam | (noun) a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon) | Synonyms: double-magnum |
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jersey | (noun) a slightly elastic machine-knit fabric | - |
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(noun) a close-fitting pullover shirt | Synonyms: T-shirt, tee shirt |
jessamine | (noun) a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea | Synonyms: common jasmine, Jasminum officinale, true jasmine |
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jest | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jocularity, joke |
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(noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, joke, laugh |
(verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: joke |
(verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: joke |
jester | (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: fool, motley fool |
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jesting | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jocose, jocular, joking |
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jestingly | (adverb) in jest | Synonyms: jokingly |
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jet | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, pitchy, sooty |
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(noun) an airplane powered by one or more jet engines | Synonyms: jet-propelled plane, jet plane |
(noun) an artificially produced flow of water | Synonyms: fountain |
(noun) street names for ketamine | Synonyms: cat valium, green, honey oil, K, special K, super acid, super C |
(noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: spirt, spurt, squirt |
(noun) atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward | Synonyms: blue jet, reverse lightning |
(noun) a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation | - |
(verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: gush |
(verb) fly a jet plane | - |
jetliner | (noun) a large jet plane that carries passengers | - |
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jetsam | (noun) the floating wreckage of a ship | Synonyms: flotsam |
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(noun) the part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm | - |
jetting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting |
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jettison | (verb) throw as from an airplane | - |
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(verb) throw away, of something encumbering | - |
jetty | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groin, groyne, mole, seawall |
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jewel | (noun) a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: gem, precious stone |
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(noun) a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: gem |
(verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: bejewel |
jeweled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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jeweler | (noun) someone in the business of selling jewelry | Synonyms: jeweller |
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(noun) someone who makes jewelry | Synonyms: jeweller, jewelry maker |
jewelled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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jeweller | (noun) someone in the business of selling jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler |
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(noun) someone who makes jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler, jewelry maker |
jewellery | (noun) an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) | Synonyms: jewelry |
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jewelry | (noun) an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) | Synonyms: jewellery |
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jewelweed | (noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | Synonyms: celandine, Impatiens capensis, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not |
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jewfish | (noun) large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales | Synonyms: Mycteroperca bonaci |
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(noun) large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre | Synonyms: mulloway, Sciaena antarctica |
jezebel | (noun) a shameless impudent scheming woman | - |
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jiao | (noun) 10 jiao equal 1 yuan in China | - |
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jib | (noun) any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) | - |
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(verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, gybe, jibe |
(verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, resist |
jibboom | (noun) a spar that extends the bowsprit | - |
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jibe | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, shaft, shot, slam |
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(verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, gybe, jib |
(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, match, tally |
jiffy | (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
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jig | (noun) any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping | - |
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(noun) a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it | - |
(noun) a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water | - |
(noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: gigue |
(verb) dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions | - |
jigaboo | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: nigga, nigger, nigra |
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jigg | (verb) dancing in a style associated with the South Louisiana club scene | - |
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jigger | (noun) larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation | Synonyms: chigger, harvest mite, redbug |
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(noun) a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey | Synonyms: pony, shot glass |
(noun) any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl | Synonyms: jiggermast |
jiggered | (adjective) (British informal expletive) surprised | - |
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jiggermast | (noun) any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl | Synonyms: jigger |
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jiggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: joggle |
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(verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: joggle, wiggle |
jigsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: fretsaw, scroll saw |
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(noun) a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut | Synonyms: reciprocating saw, saber saw |
jihad | (noun) a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | Synonyms: jehad |
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jihadi | (adjective) of or relating to a jihad | - |
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jillion | (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, billion, gazillion, million, trillion, zillion |
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jilt | (noun) a woman who jilts a lover | - |
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(verb) cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly | - |
jilted | (adjective) rebuffed (by a lover) without warning | Synonyms: rejected, spurned |
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jimdandy | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimhickey |
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(noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimhickey |