English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 1 of 98
Spoken by a player before adjusting a piece on the chessboard, to indicate that one is not making a move in the game.
A short-term visa granted to scholars, professors, and visitors who participate in cultural exchange programs.
A printed card designed to fit in an audio cassette case, folded around the cassette, and usually bearing the title, artwork, track listing, etc.
Japanese horror fiction in film, video games, and other popular culture, typically marked by psychological tension and supernatural elements.
A vertical omnidirectional transmitting antenna used in the shortwave frequency bands.
A school or a division within a college or university teaching topics related to the practice of journalism.
A 180-degree turn in a vehicle, where the vehicle starts in reverse and ends driving forwards so that the direction of travel remains the same.
Abbreviation of Justice of the Peace, usually used after the name of a person who holds this office.
The ship of characters Kathryn Janeway and Seven of Nine from the television series Star Trek: Voyager.
The ship of characters Kathryn Janeway and Chakotay from the television series Star Trek: Voyager.
A subatomic particle with an unusually long lifetime (7.2 × 10⁻²¹ s) and a large mass (approx. 3.097 GeV/c²); a bound state of a charm quark and an anti-charm quark (the most common form of charmonium).
Variously expressing ridicule, irony, indifference, surprise, or ambivalence—possibly in combination—depending on tone and context.
A person dressed up as a devil-like character, in Caribbean carnivals, who carries a whip used for hitting other devils.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter J contains 4,872 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 98 pages, and you are currently viewing page 1. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "J" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.