basenji | (noun) small smooth-haired breed of African origin having a tightly curled tail and the inability to bark | - |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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emoji | (noun) ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and Web pages | - |
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fuji | (noun) shrubby Japanese cherry tree having pale pink blossoms | Synonyms: fuji cherry, Prunus incisa |
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hadji | (noun) an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca | Synonyms: haji, hajji |
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haji | (noun) an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca | Synonyms: hadji, hajji |
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hajji | (noun) an Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca | Synonyms: hadji, haji |
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(noun) a general term used by foreign soldiers to refer to the Iraqi people | - |
hejira | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: exodus, hegira |
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hijinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, jinks |
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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 |
jimhickey | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
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(noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
jimmies | (noun) bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | Synonyms: sprinkles |
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jimmy | (noun) a short crowbar | Synonyms: jemmy |
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(verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: lever, prise, prize, pry |
jimsonweed | (noun) intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits | Synonyms: apple of Peru, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed |
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jingle | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel, doggerel verse |
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(noun) a metallic sound | Synonyms: jangle |
(verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jangle, jingle-jangle |
jingling | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingly |
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jingly | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingling |
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jingo | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingoist, patrioteer |
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jingoism | (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: chauvinism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
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(noun) an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions | Synonyms: flag waving |
jingoist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, patrioteer |
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jingoistic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
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jinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, hijinks |
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jinnee | (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, djinny, genie, jinni |
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jinni | (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, djinny, genie, jinnee |
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jinrikisha | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: ricksha, rickshaw |
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jinx | (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: curse, hex, whammy |
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(noun) a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him | Synonyms: jonah |
(verb) foredoom to failure | - |
(verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, witch |
jinxed | (adjective) (usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune | Synonyms: hexed |
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jiqui | (noun) Cuban timber tree with hard wood very resistant to moisture | Synonyms: Malpighia obovata |
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jird | (noun) gerbil of northern Africa | - |
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jitney | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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jitter | (noun) small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources | - |
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(noun) a small irregular movement | - |
jitterbug | (noun) a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s | - |
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(verb) do the jitterbug | - |
jitteriness | (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jumpiness, nervousness, restiveness |
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jittering | (adjective) undergoing small rapid variations | - |
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jitters | (noun) extreme nervousness | Synonyms: heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies |
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jittery | (adjective) characterized by jerky movements | - |
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(adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
jiujitsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jujitsu, jujutsu |
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jive | (noun) a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz | Synonyms: swing, swing music |
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(verb) dance to jive music; dance the jive | - |
jujitsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jiujitsu, jujutsu |
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masjid | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship | Synonyms: musjid |
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moujik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: mujik, muzhik, muzjik |
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mujik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, muzhik, muzjik |
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musjid | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship | Synonyms: masjid |
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muzjik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzhik |
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naranjilla | (noun) small perennial shrub cultivated in uplands of South America for its edible bright orange fruits resembling tomatoes or oranges | Synonyms: Solanum quitoense |
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ninjitsu | (noun) the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage | Synonyms: ninjutsu |
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rejig | (verb) re-equip a factory or plant | Synonyms: re-equip |
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shoji | (noun) a translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper | - |
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thingamajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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thingmajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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thingumajig | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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