| jamb | (noun) upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame | - |
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| jambalaya | (noun) spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery | - |
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| jambeau | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: greave |
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| jamberry | (noun) annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa, tomatillo |
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| (noun) Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: miltomate, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo |
| jambon | (noun) meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) | Synonyms: gammon, ham |
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| jamboree | (noun) a gay festivity | Synonyms: blowout, gala, gala affair |
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| jambosa | (noun) tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit | Synonyms: Eugenia jambos, rose-apple tree, rose apple |
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| jamjar | (noun) a jar for holding jellies or preserves | Synonyms: jampot |
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| jammed | (adjective) extremely crowed or filled to capacity | Synonyms: jam-packed, packed |
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| jammer | (noun) a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming | - |
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| jammies | (noun) (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers | Synonyms: pajama, pj's, pyjama |
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| jamming | (noun) deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems | Synonyms: electronic jamming, jam |
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| jampack | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, ram, wad |
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| jampan | (noun) a kind of sedan chair used in India | - |
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| jampot | (noun) a jar for holding jellies or preserves | Synonyms: jamjar |
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| jangle | (noun) a metallic sound | Synonyms: jingle |
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| (verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jingle-jangle, jingle |
| jangling | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangly |
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| jangly | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangling |
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| janissary | (noun) a loyal supporter | - |
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| janitor | (noun) someone employed to clean and maintain a building | - |
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| japan | (noun) lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient | - |
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| (noun) lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer | - |
| (verb) coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan | - |
| jape | (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jest, joke, laugh |
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| japery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, prank |
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| japonica | (noun) deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms | Synonyms: Chaenomeles japonica, maule's quince |
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| (noun) greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: Camellia japonica |
| japorn | (noun) Japanese pornography | - |
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| jar | (noun) a cylindrical vessel, typically used for storing food | - |
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| (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jolt, jounce, shock |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a jar | Synonyms: jarful |
| (verb) place in a cylindrical vessel | - |
| (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 |
| jarful | (noun) the quantity contained in a jar | Synonyms: jar |
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| jargon | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| (noun) specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject | - |
| (noun) a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon | Synonyms: jargoon |
| jargoon | (noun) a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon | Synonyms: jargon |
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| jarring | (adjective) making or causing a harsh and irritating sound | - |
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| jarringly | (adverb) in a manner that jars and irritates | - |
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| jasmine | (noun) any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia | - |
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| jasper | (noun) an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone | - |
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| jassid | (noun) a variety of leafhopper | - |
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| jati | (noun) (Hinduism) a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India; a special characteristic is often the exclusive occupation of its male members (such as barber or potter) | - |
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| jaundice | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, tartness, thorniness |
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| (noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | Synonyms: icterus |
| (verb) affect with, or as if with, jaundice | - |
| (verb) distort adversely | - |
| jaundiced | (adjective) showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste | - |
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| (adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: icteric, yellow |
| jaunt | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: travel, trip |
| jauntily | (adverb) in a jaunty fashionable manner | - |
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| jauntiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| (noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: breeziness |
| jaunty | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonair, debonaire |
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| (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
| java | (noun) a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans | Synonyms: coffee |
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| javelin | (noun) a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events | - |
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| (noun) an athletic competition in which a javelin is thrown as far as possible | - |
| javelina | (noun) dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States | Synonyms: collared peccary, Peccari angulatus, Tayassu angulatus, Tayassu tajacu |
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| jaw | (noun) holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object | - |
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| (noun) the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth | - |
| (noun) the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth | - |
| (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 |
| (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 |
| jawan | (noun) (India) a private soldier or male constable | - |
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| 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) | - |
| katzenjammer | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, uproar |
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| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: hangover |
| kindjal | (noun) a kind of short sword or dagger with a slightly curved blade, probably originated in Chechnya. | - |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| lockjaw | (noun) an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages | Synonyms: tetanus |
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| logjam | (noun) an immovable mass of logs blocking a river | - |
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| (noun) any stoppage attributable to unusual activity | - |
| lumberjack | (noun) a short warm outer jacket | Synonyms: lumber jacket |
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| (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberman |
| maharaja | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja | Synonyms: maharajah |
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| maharajah | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja | Synonyms: maharaja |
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| majagua | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahagua, mahoe |
| mojarra | (noun) small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters | - |
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| mujahadeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahadein | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahadin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahedeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahedin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahid | (noun) a Muslim engaged in what he considers to be a jihad | - |
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| mujahideen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin |
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| mujahidin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen |
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| munja | (noun) tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets | Synonyms: munj, Saccharum bengalense, Saccharum munja |
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| muntjac | (noun) small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark | Synonyms: barking deer |
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| natterjack | (noun) common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops | Synonyms: Bufo calamita |
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| nightjar | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, goatsucker |
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| ninja | (noun) a class of 14th century Japanese who were trained in martial arts and were hired for espionage and assassinations | - |
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| (noun) a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations; a person skilled in ninjutsu | - |
| nonadjacent | (adjective) not adjacent; not next | - |
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| pajama | (noun) (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers | Synonyms: jammies, pj's, pyjama |
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| (noun) a pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries | Synonyms: pyjama |
| panjandrum | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: dignitary, high-up, high muckamuck, very important person, VIP |
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| popinjay | (noun) an archaic term for a parrot | - |
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| (noun) a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) | - |
| pyjama | (noun) (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers | Synonyms: jammies, pajama, pj's |
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| (noun) a pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries | Synonyms: pajama |
| raja | (noun) a prince or king in India | Synonyms: rajah |
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| rajah | (noun) a prince or king in India | Synonyms: raja |
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| rajanya | (noun) the second highest of the four varnas: the noble or warrior category | - |
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| skipjack | (noun) oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito | Synonyms: Euthynnus pelamis, skipjack tuna |
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| (noun) medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna | Synonyms: Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda |
| (noun) able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound | Synonyms: click beetle, snapping beetle |
| skyjack | (verb) subject an aircraft to air piracy | - |
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| soja | (noun) erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia | Synonyms: Glycine max, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean, soybean plant |
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| steeplejack | (noun) someone who builds or maintains very tall structures | - |
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| straightjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straitjacket |
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| straitjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straightjacket |
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| (noun) anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines | - |
| subjacent | (adjective) lying nearby but lower | - |
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| superjacent | (adjective) lying immediately above or on something else | - |
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| supplejack | (noun) walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine | - |
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| trojan | (noun) a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful | Synonyms: trojan horse |
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