| jab | (noun) a quick short straight punch | - |
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| (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jabbing, poke, poking, thrust, thrusting |
| (noun) the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow | Synonyms: dig |
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, poke, prod, stab |
| (verb) strike or punch with quick and short blows | - |
| (verb) stab or pierce | Synonyms: stab |
| jabber | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: gabble, jabbering |
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| (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout |
| jabberer | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: driveller |
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| jabbering | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: gabble, jabber |
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| jabberwocky | (noun) nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) | - |
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| jabbing | (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, poke, poking, thrust, thrusting |
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| jabiru | (noun) large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America | Synonyms: Jabiru mycteria |
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| (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, saddlebill |
| (noun) large mostly white Australian stork | Synonyms: black-necked stork, policeman bird, Xenorhyncus asiaticus |
| jaboncillo | (noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, chinaberry, false dogwood, Sapindus saponaria |
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| jabot | (noun) a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt | - |
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| jaboticaba | (noun) tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil | - |
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| (noun) small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches | Synonyms: jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria cauliflora |