English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 15 of 98
A powder consisting of one part oxide of antimony and two parts calcium phosphate, once falsely claimed to have medical benefits.
An early hypothesis as to the origin and nature of emotions, stating that physiological arousal instigates the experience of emotion.
A particular estimator of the mean boldsymbol θ:=(θ₁,θ₂,…θₘ) for a multivariate random variable boldsymbol Y:=(Y_1,Y_2,…Y_m).
Of or relating to American writer Henry James (1843–1916), regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.
A triclinic-pinacoidal reddish brown mineral containing arsenic, iron, lead, oxygen, and zinc.
A Scottish and Northern Irish surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name James.
Of or relating to Fredric Jameson (1934–2024), American critic and Marxist political theorist.
A North American orthobunyavirus, an arbovirus, that mostly in adults can cause fever, meningitis or meningoencephalitis.
A national holiday celebrated on December 12, commemorating when Kenya became independent.
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 thickness of the mirror, and recombined at the second mirror to be displayed on a screen.
An archaic stringed instrument of Japanese origin, traditionally made from snakeskin and characteristic of the Ryukyu islands; it is the ancestor of the shamisen.
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 Animal Jam Classic).
A division of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India, consisting of the southern portion.
A performer who acts as a sidekick in the traditional folk theatre of India and Pakistan.
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 15. 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.