| 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 | - |
| jnd | (noun) (psychophysics) the difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected | Synonyms: just-noticeable difference |
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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 | - |