| adjoin | (verb) attach or add | - |
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| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: contact, meet, touch |
| adjourn | (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: break up, recess |
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| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: retire, withdraw |
| adjournment | (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| (noun) the act of postponing to another time or place | - |
| anjou | (noun) a pear with firm flesh and a green skin | - |
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| apojove | (noun) apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter | - |
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| banjo | (noun) a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body | - |
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| bijou | (noun) a small and delicately worked piece | - |
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| blowjob | (noun) slang for fellatio | Synonyms: cock sucking |
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| cajole | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
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| cajolery | (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: blandishment, palaver |
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| cajolingly | (adverb) in a cajoling manner | Synonyms: coaxingly |
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| carcajou | (noun) stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: Gulo luscus, skunk bear, wolverine |
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| conjoin | (verb) make contact or come together | Synonyms: join |
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| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
| conjoined | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoint |
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| conjoint | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoined |
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| conjointly | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: collectively, jointly, together with |
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| currajong | (noun) widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle | Synonyms: Brachychiton populneus, kurrajong |
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| demijohn | (noun) large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork | - |
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| disjoin | (verb) become separated, disconnected or disjoint | Synonyms: disjoint |
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| (verb) make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of | Synonyms: disjoint |
| disjoined | (adjective) have the connection undone; having become separate | Synonyms: separate |
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| disjoint | (adjective) having no elements in common | - |
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| (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 | - |
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| (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 | - |
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| disjointedness | (noun) lacking order or coherence | - |
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| donjon | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: dungeon, keep |
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| enjoin | (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: order, say, tell |
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| (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 |
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| 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 |
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| enjoy | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: delight, revel |
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| (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 |
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| enjoyableness | (noun) pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed | - |
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| enjoyably | (adverb) in an enjoyable manner | Synonyms: agreeably, pleasantly |
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| enjoyer | (noun) a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something | - |
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| enjoyment | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: delectation |
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| (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 | - |
| feijoa | (noun) dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves | Synonyms: pineapple guava |
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| (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 |
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| 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 |
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| frijole | (noun) Mexican bean; usually dried | - |
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| (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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| job | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: business, line, line of work, occupation |
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| (noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | Synonyms: chore, task |
| (noun) a crime (especially a robbery) | Synonyms: caper |
| (noun) a damaging piece of work | - |
| (noun) the responsibility to do something | - |
| (noun) the performance of a piece of work | - |
| (noun) a workplace; as in the expression `on the job' | - |
| (noun) an object worked on; a result produced by working | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit | - |
| (noun) a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved | Synonyms: problem |
| (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: speculate |
| (verb) work occasionally | - |
| (verb) profit privately from public office and official business | - |
| (verb) arranged for contracted work to be done by others | Synonyms: farm out, subcontract |
| jobber | (noun) someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers | Synonyms: middleman, wholesaler |
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| jobbery | (noun) corruptness among public officials | - |
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| jobcentre | (noun) a government office in a town where information about available jobs is displayed and where unemployment benefits are administered | - |
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| jobholder | (noun) an employee who holds a regular job | - |
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| jobless | (adjective) not having a job | Synonyms: idle, out of work |
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| jock | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jockstrap, supporter, suspensor |
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| (noun) a person trained to compete in sports | Synonyms: athlete |
| jockey | (noun) someone employed to ride horses in horse races | - |
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| (noun) an operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus | - |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, screw, shaft |
| (verb) ride a racehorse as a professional jockey | - |
| (verb) compete (for an advantage or a position) | - |
| jockstrap | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, supporter, suspensor |
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| jocose | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocular, joking |
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| jocosely | (adverb) with humor | Synonyms: jocular |
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| jocoseness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocosity, merriness |
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| jocosity | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocoseness, merriness |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocularity |
| jocote | (noun) common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit | Synonyms: mombin, mombin tree, Spondias purpurea |
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| jocular | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, joking |
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| (adverb) with humor | Synonyms: jocosely |
| jocularity | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, joke |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocosity |
| (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocundity |
| jocund | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful |
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| jocundity | (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocularity |
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| jodhpur | (noun) a short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side | Synonyms: jodhpur boot, jodhpur shoe |
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| jodhpurs | (noun) (used in the plural) flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots | Synonyms: jodhpur breeches, riding breeches |
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| joewood | (noun) West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood | Synonyms: barbasco, Jacquinia keyensis |
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| jog | (noun) a slow pace of running | Synonyms: lope, trot |
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| (noun) a slight push or shake | Synonyms: nudge |
| (noun) a sharp change in direction | - |
| (verb) stimulate to remember | - |
| (verb) give a slight push to | - |
| (verb) run for exercise | - |
| (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: clip, trot |
| (verb) even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing | Synonyms: even up, square up |
| (verb) continue talking or writing in a desultory manner | Synonyms: ramble, ramble on |
| jogger | (noun) someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise) | - |
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| jogging | (noun) running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise | - |
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| joggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: jiggle |
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| (noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel, dowel pin |
| (verb) fasten or join with a joggle | - |
| (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: jiggle, wiggle |
| john | (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, lav, lavatory, privy, toilet |
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| (noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: trick, whoremaster, whoremonger |
| johnnycake | (noun) cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England) | Synonyms: johnny cake, journey cake |
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| join | (noun) a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets | Synonyms: sum, union |
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| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, joint, junction, juncture |
| (verb) make contact or come together | Synonyms: conjoin |
| (verb) cause to become joined or linked | - |
| (verb) become part of; become a member of a group or organization | Synonyms: fall in, get together |
| (verb) come into the company of | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: connect, link, link up, unite |
| joined | (adjective) connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks | Synonyms: coupled, linked |
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| (adjective) of or relating to two people who are married to each other | Synonyms: united |
| joiner | (noun) a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood | - |
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| (noun) a person who likes to join groups | - |
| joinery | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: cabinetmaking |
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| (noun) fine woodwork done by a joiner | - |
| joining | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
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| joint | (adjective) united or combined | - |
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| (adjective) involving both houses of a legislature | - |
| (adjective) affecting or involving two or more | - |
| (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff, stick |
| (noun) junction by which parts or objects are joined together | - |
| (noun) a disreputable place of entertainment | - |
| (noun) (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Synonyms: articulatio, articulation |
| (noun) a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion | Synonyms: roast |
| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, junction, juncture |
| (verb) fasten with a joint | - |
| (verb) separate (meat) at the joint | - |
| (verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: articulate |
| (verb) fit as if by joints | - |
| jointed | (adjective) having joints or jointed segments | - |
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| jointer | (noun) a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together | Synonyms: jointer plane, jointing plane, long plane |
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| jointly | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: collectively, conjointly, together with |
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| (adverb) in collaboration or cooperation | - |
| jointure | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, unification, union, uniting |
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| (noun) (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower | Synonyms: legal jointure |
| jointworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| joist | (noun) beam used to support floors or roofs | - |
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| joke | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, prank, put-on, trick |
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| (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, jocularity |
| (noun) a triviality not to be taken seriously | - |
| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, laugh |
| (verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: jest |
| (verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: jest |
| joker | (noun) a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester | - |
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| (noun) an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent | - |
| (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: jokester |
| (noun) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying | Synonyms: turkey |
| jokester | (noun) a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | Synonyms: joker |
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| joking | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, jocular |
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| jokingly | (adverb) in jest | Synonyms: jestingly |
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| (adverb) not seriously | Synonyms: facetiously, tongue-in-cheek |
| jollification | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, merrymaking |
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| jollify | (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, wassail, whoop it up |
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| jolliness | (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor | Synonyms: jollity, joviality |
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| jollity | (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor | Synonyms: jolliness, joviality |
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| jolly | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful |
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| (noun) a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work | Synonyms: jolly boat |
| (noun) a happy party | - |
| (adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat |
| (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, josh, kid |
| jolt | (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jerking, saccade |
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| (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jounce, shock |
| (verb) disturb (someone's) composure | - |
| (verb) move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion | Synonyms: jar |
| jolted | (adjective) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock | Synonyms: shaken |
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| (adjective) bumped or shaken jerkily | - |
| jolting | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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| jolty | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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| jonah | (noun) a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him | Synonyms: jinx |
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| jongleur | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour |
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| jonquil | (noun) widely cultivated ornamental plant native to southern Europe but naturalized elsewhere having fragrant yellow or white clustered flowers | Synonyms: Narcissus jonquilla |
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| (noun) often used colloquially for any yellow daffodil | - |
| jook | (noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook house, jook joint, juke, juke house, juke joint |
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| (noun) a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast | Synonyms: congee |
| jorum | (noun) a large drinking bowl | - |
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| (noun) the quantity that a jorum will hold. | - |
| josh | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, kid |
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