| adjunct | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: assistant |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
| (noun) a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence | - |
| (noun) something added to another thing but not an essential part of it | - |
| (noun) a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another | - |
| adjunction | (noun) an act of joining or adjoining things | Synonyms: junction |
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| adjunctive | (adjective) joining; forming an adjunct | - |
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| conjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals of a second | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
| (adjective) bound in close association | - |
| conjunction | (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: junction |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunctive, connective, continuative |
| (noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: alignment |
| (noun) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction | - |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, junction |
| conjunctiva | (noun) a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid | - |
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| conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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| conjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to connect | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, cooperative, united |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
| conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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| conjuncture | (noun) a critical combination of events or circumstances | - |
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| disjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second | - |
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| (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 |
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| (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjuncture |
| disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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| disjuncture | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction |
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| injunction | (noun) a formal command or admonition | - |
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| (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 |
| 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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| junco | (noun) small North American finch seen chiefly in winter | Synonyms: snowbird |
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| junction | (noun) an act of joining or adjoining things | Synonyms: adjunction |
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| (noun) the place where two or more things come together | - |
| (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: conjunction |
| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, joint, juncture |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, conjunction |
| juncture | (noun) an event that occurs at a critical time | Synonyms: occasion |
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| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, joint, junction |
| (noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, crossroads |
| juneberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry |
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| jungle | (noun) a place where hoboes camp | Synonyms: hobo camp |
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| (noun) an impenetrable equatorial forest | - |
| (noun) a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival | - |
| jungly | (adjective) overgrown with tropical vegetation | - |
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| junior | (adjective) younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service | - |
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| (adjective) used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college | Synonyms: next-to-last, third-year |
| (adjective) including or intended for youthful persons | - |
| (noun) the younger of two persons | - |
| (noun) a third-year undergraduate | - |
| (noun) term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male | - |
| juniper | (noun) wood of a coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones | - |
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| (noun) desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista | Synonyms: Genista raetam, juniper bush, raetam, Retama raetam, retem |
| (noun) coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones | - |
| junk | (noun) any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails | - |
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| (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, rubble |
| (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: scrap, trash |
| junket | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (noun) a trip taken by an official at public expense | - |
| (noun) dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet | - |
| (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junketeer |
| junketeer | (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junket |
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| junketing | (noun) taking an excursion for pleasure | - |
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| junkie | (noun) a narcotics addict | Synonyms: drug addict, junky |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junky, nut |
| junky | (noun) a narcotics addict | Synonyms: drug addict, junkie |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junkie, nut |
| junkyard | (noun) a field where junk is collected and stored for resale | - |
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| junta | (noun) a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power | Synonyms: military junta |
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| junto | (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, camarilla, faction |
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| keratoconjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva | - |
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| nondisjunction | (noun) meiosis in which there is a failure of paired homologous chromosomes to separate; results in an abnormal number of chromosomes in the daughter cells | - |
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| subjunction | (noun) the act of supplementing | Synonyms: subjoining, supplementation |
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| subjunctive | (adjective) relating to a mood of verbs | - |
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| (noun) a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible | Synonyms: subjunctive mood |
| thermojunction | (noun) a junction between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears | - |
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