English words: Jamaica train to Jansenism
300 English words, part 4 of 21 of the words starting with J, A to Z. 28 have a page of their own.
English words Jamaica train to Jansenism
- Jamaica train noun: A series of sirops or kettles used for the gradual concentration of sugar juice into crystalline form.
- Jamaica walnut noun: Picrodendron baccatum, a tree native to the West Indies.
- jamaicamide noun: Any of a class of organic compounds isolated from the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula.
- Jamaican adjective, noun /d͡ʒəˈmeɪkən/: A person from Jamaica or of Jamaican descent.
- Jamaican apple noun: The cherimoya fruit.
- Jamaican blind snake noun: Typhlops jamaicensis, a species of blind snake.
- Jamaican ebony noun: A plant, Brya ebenus.
- Jamaican hutia noun: Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii).
- Jamaican patty noun: A turnover with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric.
- Jamaican vomiting sickness noun: An acute illness, with vomiting and dehydration, caused by the toxin hypoglycin A, found in unripe ackee fruit.
- Jamaicanization noun: the act or process of Jamaicanizing.
- Jamaicanize verb: to make Jamaican.
- Jamaicanness noun: Quality of being Jamaican.
- jamaicin noun: An alkaloid found in the tree Andira inermis.
- jamaicine noun: A bitter alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of Jamaica and Suriname.
- jamais vu noun /ˌʒɑː.meɪ ˈvuː/: A sense of unfamiliarity with, or of never having experienced or seen before, something that should be familiar.
- Jamal proper noun: A male given name from Arabic.
- Jamalpur proper noun: A city in Jamalpur District, Bangladesh.
- jaman noun: Alternative form of jamun.
- Jamar proper noun: A male given name.
- Jamari proper noun: A male given name.
- jamas noun: Alternative form of jarmas (“pajamas”).
- jamat noun: Alternative form of jamaat.
- jamatkhana noun: A congregational center and place of worship for Nizari Ismaili Muslims.
- jamb noun, verb /d͡ʒæm/: Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace.
- jambalaya noun /ˌd͡ʒæmbəˈlaɪə/: Any of various of rice-based dishes common in Louisiana Cajun or Creole cooking, most often with shrimp, oysters, chicken or ham.
- jambart noun: A piece of armour for the leg below the knee.
- jambe noun /ˈd͡ʒæm/: A leg, of an animal or person.
- jambeau noun /ˈd͡ʒæm.boʊ/: A piece of armour for the leg (especially below the knee), a greave.
- jambee noun: A light walking cane that was fashionable in the eighteenth century. It apparently came from the Calamus plants.
- jamber noun: Synonym of jambeau (“piece of armor for the leg”).
- Jamberoo proper noun: A town in the Kiama council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- Jambi proper noun: The capital and largest city of Jambi, Indonesia.
- jambia noun: Alternative spelling of jambiya.
- jambier noun: A foot rest.
- jambite noun: A first-year student at university; freshman.
- jambiya noun /d͡ʒæmˈbiːə/: An Arabian (especially Yemeni) dagger with a short curved blade that is worn on a belt.
- jambiyah noun: Alternative spelling of jambiya.
- jambless adjective: Without a jamb.
- Jambo noun: A member or fan of Heart of Midlothian F.C., a Scottish football club.
- jambok noun, verb: Alternative spelling of sjambok.
- jambolan noun: Synonym of jambul.
- jambolana noun: Syzygium cumini, a myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America with astringent bark and edible fruit.
- jambon noun /d͡ʒæmˈbɒn/: A square puff pastry containing ham and cheese.
- Jambone noun: A hand that is played with the bidder's cards exposed on the table
- jambool noun: Alternative form of jambul.
- jamboree noun, verb /ˌdʒæm.bəˈɹiː/: A boisterous or lavish celebration or party.
- jamborette noun: A small or short jamboree
- jamborite noun: A hexagonal green mineral containing hydrogen, iron, nickel, oxygen, and sulfur.
- jambou noun: Alternative form of jambul.
- jambox noun: boom box
- jambstone noun: The stone forming the jamb of a doorway.
- jambu adjective, noun /ˈdʒʌmbʊ/: Alternative form of jambul.
- jambul noun: An evergreen tropical tree, Syzygium cumini.
- jambuster noun: A doughnut filled with jam.
- jambya noun: Alternative spelling of jambiya.
- jamdad noun: Alternative form of jamdhar.
- jamdani noun: A fabric of fine cotton muslin of Bengali origin, with coloured stripes and patterns.
- jamdhar noun: A kind of Indian dagger, broad at the base and slightly curved, and having a cross-grip on the hilt.
- jameed noun: Dried yogurt used in dishes such as mansaf.
- jameo noun: A large hole (or sink) formed when the roofs of multiple levels of a lava-tube cave collapse, found most notably in the Canary Islands.
- Jamerican adjective, noun: An American of Jamaican birth or ancestry
- Jamerson proper noun: A surname.
- James proper noun /d͡ʒeɪmz/: The twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the general epistle of James.
- James B. Duke professor noun: A professor with the highest academic title at Duke University.
- James Bond noun: A secret agent of similar ability to the fictional James Bond.
- James Bond villain noun: Alternative form of Bond villain.
- James's flamingo noun: A small species of flamingo, Phoenicoparrus jamesi, endemic to the high Andean plateaux.
- James's powder noun: A powder consisting of one part oxide of antimony and two parts calcium phosphate, once falsely claimed to have medical benefits.
- James-Stein estimator noun: A particular estimator of the mean boldsymbol θ:=(θ₁,θ₂,…θₘ) for a multivariate random variable boldsymbol Y:=(Y_1,Y_2,…Y_m).
- Jamesburg proper noun: An unincorporated community in Monterey County, California, named after John James.
- Jamesean adjective, noun: Alternative form of Jamesian.
- Jamesian adjective, noun: Of or relating to American writer Henry James (1843–1916), regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.
- jamesite noun: A triclinic-pinacoidal reddish brown mineral containing arsenic, iron, lead, oxygen, and zinc.
- Jameson proper noun /ˈd͡ʒeɪməsən/: A Scottish and Northern Irish surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name James.
- Jameson's mamba noun: Dendroaspis jamesoni, a highly venomous elapid snake, native to equatorial Africa.
- Jamesonian adjective: Of or relating to Fredric Jameson (1934–2024), American critic and Marxist political theorist.
- jamesonite noun: A dark grey monoclinic sulfosalt mineral with chemical formula Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄.
- Jamestown proper noun: The capital city of Saint Helena.
- Jamestown Canyon virus noun: Any member of the species Orthobunyavirus jamestownense of North American orthobunyaviruses; an arbovirus that mostly in adults can cause fever, meningitis...
- Jamestown weed noun: Synonym of jimsonweed.
- Jamesville proper noun: An unincorporated community in Stone County, Missouri.
- jamette noun: A sexually promiscuous woman.
- jamewar noun: A cashmere shawl with coloured patterns.
- jamful adjective: Full to capacity; jam-packed; chokka.
- Jamie proper noun /ˈd͡ʒeɪmi/: A diminutive of the male given name James, from English and Scottish, also used as a formal given name.
- Jamieson proper noun /ˈd͡ʒeɪmɪsən/: A surname originating as a patronymic.
- Jamil proper noun: A surname.
- Jamila proper noun: A female given name from Arabic.
- Jamin proper noun: A male given name.
- Jamin interferometer noun: A kind of interferometer made up of two thick mirrors, so that the incident light is split into two parallel rays, displaced by an amount depending on the...
- Jamir proper noun: A male given name.
- jamisen noun: An archaic stringed instrument of Japanese origin, traditionally made from snakeskin and characteristic of the Ryukyu islands; it is the ancestor of the...
- Jamison proper noun: A Scottish surname transferred from the given name.
- jamjams noun: pajamas
- jamjar noun: Alternative form of jam jar.
- jamless adjective: Without jam.
- jamli noun: jambul tree
- jamlike adjective: Resembling jam (the sweet spread).
- jammabandi noun: Alternative form of jummabundi.
- jammabandy noun: Alternative form of jummabundi.
- jammable adjective: That can be jammed.
- jammed adjective, verb /dʒæmd/: Stuck.
- jammed up adjective, verb: In a physically tight spot.
- jammer noun /ˈd͡ʒæmɚ/: A player of the massively multiplayer online game Animal Jam (now either the app so named, formerly Animal Jam – Play Wild!, or the desktop game renamed...
- jammers adjective, noun /ˈd͡ʒamə(ɹ)z/: A kind of form-fitting swimwear used by athletes, resembling shorts.
- jammie adjective, noun: pajama
- jammies noun /ˈd͡ʒæm.iːz/: Clipping of pyjamas.
- jammily adverb: In a jammy or jamlike way.
- jammin' adjective: Pronunciation spelling of jamming.
- jamminess noun: The state or condition of being jammy or jamlike.
- jamming adjective, noun, verb /ˈd͡ʒæmɪŋ/: The act or process by which something is jammed.
- Jammu proper noun /ˈd͡ʒʌm.uː/: A division of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India, consisting of the southern portion.
- jammy adjective, noun /ˈd͡ʒæm.i/: Resembling jam in taste, texture, etc.
- jammy Arab noun: an extremely lucky person.
- jammy dodger noun: Someone with astounding good luck.
- Jamnagar proper noun: A city in Gujarat, India.
- Jamnapari noun: A goat of an Indian domestic breed originating in Uttar Pradesh.
- Jamnian adjective, noun: Of or relating to the ancient city of Jamnia.
- jamo noun /ˈd͡ʒɑmoʊ/: Any of the component letters of the Korean hangul alphabet.
- jamoat noun: A third-level administrative division, similar to a commune or municipality, in Tajikistan.
- jamoch noun: Alternative form of jamoke.
- jamocha noun: Alternative form of jamoke.
- jamoka noun: Alternative form of jamoke.
- jamoke noun /d͡ʒəˈməʊk/: Coffee.
- jamon noun: Spanish dry-cured ham
- jamón ibérico noun: A type of cured ham from Spain, made from the black Iberian pig.
- jamoon noun: Alternative form of jamun.
- jamoora noun: A performer who acts as a sidekick in the traditional folk theatre of India and Pakistan.
- jampack verb: Alternative spelling of jam-pack.
- jampacked adjective, verb: Alternative spelling of jam-packed.
- jampan noun /ˈdʒæmˌpæn/: Synonym of dandy or tonjon, a kind of open sedan chair, particularly one with its main pole suspended from smaller poles borne on the shoulders of two pairs...
- jampanee noun: Dated form of jampani.
- jampani noun: A jampan-bearer.
- jampaun noun: Alternative form of jampan.
- jampot noun: Alternative form of jam pot.
- Jamrach noun: A dealer in exotic wild animals.
- jamrosade noun: The rose apple Syzygium jambos.
- Jamshedpur proper noun: A city in the state of Jharkhand, India.
- Jamshoro proper noun: A city and district of Sindh, Pakistan.
- Jämthund noun: A breed of dog of the spitz type that is found in Northern Europe, eponymous with Jämtland.
- Jämtland proper noun: A province and county in central Sweden.
- Jamul proper noun /hɑːˈmuːl/: A census-designated place in San Diego County, California, United States.
- jamun noun: Synonym of jambul.
- Jamunapari noun: Alternative form of Jamnapari.
- jamura noun: Alternative form of jamoora.
- jamwich noun: A jam sandwich.
- jamwood noun: The hard timber of the jam tree (Acacia acuminata).
- JAN noun: Initialism of Japanese Accepted Name.
- jan ken po noun: rock paper scissors
- Jana proper noun: A female given name from Czech.
- Janacekian adjective: Of or relating to Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), Czech composer.
- Janae proper noun: A female given name originating as a coinage.
- Janak proper noun: A surname from Czech.
- Janaka proper noun: An ancient king of Videha. The Janaka dynasty ruled the Videha kingdom in the Mithila region from the capital city of the same name.
- Janaki proper noun: An epithet (patronymic) of Sita in Ramayana.
- Janakpur proper noun: A sub-metropolitan city, the capital of Madhesh Province, Nepal.
- Janambre noun: An indigenous people of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico.
- Janani proper noun: A female given name from Sanskrit.
- janapa noun: Synonym of Indian hemp (“Crotalaria juncea”).
- janapada noun: A realm or kingdom of the Vedic period in the Indian subcontinent.
- janapan noun: Synonym of Indian hemp (“Crotalaria juncea”).
- janata noun: The people; the populace.
- janazah noun: A Muslim funeral prayer, part of the Islamic funeral ritual.
- janbia noun: Alternative spelling of jambiya.
- janbiya noun: Alternative spelling of jambiya.
- janbiyah noun: Alternative spelling of jambiya.
- Jand proper noun: A foreign country, one other than Nigeria.
- Janda proper noun: A surname from Czech.
- jandal noun /ˈd͡ʒændəl/: A flip-flop (type of footwear)
- jandaya noun: Aratinga jandaya, a small neotropical parrot with green wings and tail, reddish-orange body, yellow head and neck, orange cheeks, and black bill, native to...
- janded adjective: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a person who has lived or travelled overseas.
- janders noun: Pronunciation spelling of jaundice.
- jane noun /d͡ʒeɪn/: used as a placeholder name for any woman, especially a young working-class woman
- Jane Austenesque adjective: Resembling or characteristic of the English writer Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) or her works.
- Jane Average noun: A hypothetical female average or female generic individual; the common woman.
- Jane Crow noun: Discrimination against women.
- Jane Doe noun: An unknown or anonymous female; the female equivalent of John Doe.
- Jane Hancock noun: A woman's signature.
- Jane-of-apes noun: A silly, pert girl; a female jackanapes.
- Jane Roe noun: The female equivalent of Richard Roe.
- Jane Wayne noun: A female of masculine appearance or behavior.
- Janeane proper noun: A female given name.
- Janeen proper noun: A female given name.
- janegirl noun /ˈd͡ʒeɪn.ɡɜːl/: A boy who behaves in a typically girlish manner.
- Janeiteism noun: The love or worship of the works of Jane Austen.
- Janeitism noun: Alternative form of Janeiteism.
- Janelle proper noun: A female given name.
- Janessa proper noun: A female given name originating as a coinage.
- Janesville proper noun: A census-designated place in Lassen County, California, United States.
- Janet proper noun /ˈd͡ʒænɪt/: A female given name.
- Janet and John adjective: Childishly simple or obvious, resembling something found in a book for very young children.
- Janetian adjective: Relating to Pierre Janet (1859–1947), pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory.
- Janetta proper noun: A female given name.
- Janette proper noun: A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Janet.
- janeu noun: A sacred thread or cord received as a rite of passage by someone studying under a guru.
- Janeway proper noun: A surname.
- Janey proper noun: A diminutive of the female given name Jane.
- Janey Mack interjection: gosh!
- jang noun: Fermented ingredients used as the base for many Korean dishes and sauces.
- jangada noun /ʒəŋˈɡɑdə/: A traditional wooden sailing raft of northern Brazil.
- jangadeiro noun: One who sails a jangada (type of raft).
- jangajji noun: Unfermented vegetables pickled in soy sauce or chili paste etc., used in Korean cuisine.
- jangal noun /ˈdʒʌŋɡ(ə)l/: Alternative spelling of jungle.
- janggi noun: A board game similar to chess, invented and traditionally played in Korea.
- janggo noun: Alternative form of janggu.
- janggu noun: A type of percussion instrument used in traditional Korean music.
- janggunite noun: An orthorhombic black mineral containing hydrogen, iron, manganese, and oxygen.
- Janghey noun: Synonym of Dinka.
- Janghi noun: A settled or semi-nomadic Birhor tribesperson.
- Jangil noun: A member of an extinct Andamanese people who once inhabited Rutland Island.
- Jangkundjara noun: Alternative form of Yankunytjatjara.
- jangle noun, verb /ˈd͡ʒæŋɡəl/: To cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound.
- jangle pop noun: A 1980s genre of alternative rock music that marked a return to the jangly guitar melodies of the 1960s.
- janglement noun: Jabber; idle, confused, noisy or bickering chatter.
- jangler noun: Someone who, or something that jangles.
- janglery noun: Chatter; gossip.
- janglesome adjective: quarrelsome
- jangling noun, verb: A jangle, the sounds of a jangle.
- janglingly adverb: With a jangling sound.
- jangly adjective /ˈd͡ʒæŋɡli/: Accompanied by a jangling sound.
- jangmadang noun: A kind of local market or black market in North Korea that emerged since the famine in the 1990s.
- jangseung noun: A kind of traditional Korean shamanistic totem pole.
- janhaugite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic reddish brown mineral containing calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, niobium, oxygen, silicon, sodium, titanium, and zirconium.
- Janiak proper noun: A surname.
- Janian adjective: Of or relating to the god Janus in Roman mythology
- Janice proper noun /ˈd͡ʒænɪs/: A female given name.
- Janicek proper noun: A surname from Czech.
- janiceps noun: conjoined twins whose heads are fused together but look in opposite directions
- Janicki proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Janiculan adjective: Of or relating to the Janiculum.
- Janiculum proper noun: A hill in western Rome, Italy.
- Janie proper noun: A diminutive of the female given name Jane.
- janiform adjective: Resembling the god Janus, having two faces looking in opposite directions.
- Janine proper noun /d͡ʒəˈniːn/: A female given name from French.
- janiroidean noun: Any isopod of the superfamily Janiroidea
- Janis proper noun /ˈd͡ʒænɪs/: A female given name.
- janisary noun: Alternative spelling of janissary.
- Janish proper noun: A surname from German.
- janissar noun: Alternative form of janissary.
- janissary noun /ˈdʒanɪzəɹi/: An infantry soldier, often of European Christian background from the Balkans as well as Eastern Europe and forcibly converted to Islam, in a former elite...
- janissary music noun: The music played by Ottoman military bands.
- janissaryship noun: The position of a janissary.
- janitor noun /ˈd͡ʒænɪtə/: Someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
- janitor fish noun: A pleco, pleco fish or plec: Any of several South and Central American fish, of the family Loricariidae.
- janitorial adjective /dʒæn.ɪˈtɔːɹ.i.əl/: Of or pertaining to a janitor.
- janitorially adverb: In a janitorial manner or capacity; in the fashion of a janitor.
- janitoriat noun: The people whose function is to protect leaders and similar important people from contact with the populace.
- janitoring noun: The work of a janitor.
- janitorship noun: The role or duration of being a janitor.
- janitory adjective: Of, related to, or for use by a janitor.
- janitress noun: a female janitor
- janitrix noun: A female janitor.
- janizar noun: Alternative form of janissary.
- janizarian adjective: Of or pertaining to the janizaries or their government.
- janizary noun: Alternative spelling of janissary.
- janjaweed noun: Alternative letter-case form of Janjaweed.
- Janjua proper noun: A surname.
- jank adjective, noun /ˈd͡ʒæŋk/: Perceptible pause in the smooth rendering of a software application's user interface due to slow operations or poor interface design.
- Janke proper noun: A surname.
- janked adjective /d͡ʒæŋkt/: Not in proper order; messed up, janky.
- janked up adjective: Synonym of janked (“messed up, janky”).
- janken noun /ˈd͡ʒɒŋkɛn/: The game of rock paper scissors.
- janker noun: A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs.
- jankers noun: A form of military punishment which involves being confined to barracks, performing tedious and often pointless tasks, and being subjected to frequent...
- jankily adverb: In a janky manner.
- jankiness noun: The quality of being janky.
- Janklow proper noun: A surname.
- Janko proper noun: A male given name from the Slavic languages.
- Jankó keyboard noun: A kind of piano keyboard that, instead of one long row of keys, has an array of keys consisting of two interleaved manuals with three touch-points for every...
- Jankovic proper noun: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
- jankovicite noun: A triclinic-pinacoidal black mineral containing antimony, arsenic, sulfur, and thallium.
- Jankowski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- janky adjective /ˈd͡ʒæŋ.kiː/: Of poor quality.
- jann noun: The father of the jinn preceding humanity.
- Janna proper noun: A female given name from Hebrew, a fanciful modern variant of Jane.
- Jannat proper noun: Paradise.
- Janner adjective, noun: Someone from Plymouth.
- Jannette proper noun: A female given name, variant of Janet.
- janney noun, verb: A mummer.
- Janney coupler noun: A semi-automatic form of railway coupling allowing cars and locomotives to be securely linked together without rail workers having to get between the vehicles.
- jannie noun: A janitor.
- jannissary noun: Alternative form of janissary.
- jannock adjective, noun: Pleasant, outspoken, honest, genuine, straightforward, or generous.
- janny noun, verb: Alternative form of jannie (“janitor, moderator”).
- janolid noun: Any member of the Janolidae (synonym of Proctonotidae), a family of sea slugs.
- Janos proper noun: A surname
- Janosik proper noun: A surname from Slovak.
- Janoski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Janovian adjective: Of or relating to Arthur Janov (1924–2017), American creator of primal therapy.
- Janovski reaction noun: The reaction of 1,3-dinitrobenzene with an enolizable ketone to the Meisenheimer adduct.
- Janowicz proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- Janowitzian adjective: Of or relating to Morris Janowitz (1919–1988), American sociologist and professor who made major contributions to sociological theory, the study of...
- Janowski proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- janpan noun: jampan (an open chair carried by several people).
- Jansch proper noun: A surname from German.
- Jansen proper noun /ˈd͡ʒænsən/: A surname from Dutch.
- Jansen disease noun: Synonym of Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasia.
- Jansen metaphyseal dysostosis noun: Synonym of Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasia.
- Jansenism noun: The doctrine of Cornelius Jansen and his followers, which emphasise original sin, divine grace and predestination; condemned as a heresy by Pope Innocent X...
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under J: 6,278 words, in 21 parts.