| 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) | - |