English Words: J

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janitoriatnoun

The people whose function is to protect leaders and similar important people from contact with the populace.

janitoringnoun

The work of a janitor.

janitorshipnoun

The role or duration of being a janitor.

janitressnoun

a female janitor

janitrixnoun

A female janitor.

Janiyahname

A female given name.

janizarianadj

Of or pertaining to the janizaries or their government.

janizarynoun

Alternative spelling of janissary.

Janjaweedname

An Arab militia force in Darfur, western Sudan, which has been in conflict with various Darfur rebel groups.

Janjinaname

A municipality of Croatia.

Janjiraname

A princely state in India during the British Raj, located on the Konkan coast in the present-day Raigad district of Maharashtra.

janknoun

Perceptible pause in the smooth rendering of a software application's user interface due to slow operations or poor interface design.

Jankauskasname

A surname from Lithuanian [in turn from Polish].

Jankename

A surname.

jankedadj

Not in proper order; messed up, janky.

janked upadj

Synonym of janked (“messed up, janky”).

jankennoun

The game of rock paper scissors.

jankernoun

A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs.

jankersnoun

A form of military punishment which involves being confined to barracks, performing tedious and often pointless tasks, and being subjected to frequent uniform inspections.

jankilyadv

In a janky manner.

jankinessnoun

The quality of being janky.

Jankipuramname

A neighbourhood of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Jankovicname

A surname from Serbo-Croatian.

jankovicitenoun

A triclinic-pinacoidal black mineral containing antimony, arsenic, sulfur, and thallium.

Jankowiakname

A surname from Polish.

Jankowiczname

A surname from Polish.

Jankowskiname

A surname from Polish.

Jankoyname

A city, the administrative centre of Jankoy Raion, de jure a part of that raion, de facto separate as Jankoy city municipality, in Crimea, Ukraine, occupied by Russian forces since February 2014.

jankyadj

Of poor quality.

Jankó keyboardnoun

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 key lever, making six rows of keys. Each vertical column of three keys is a semitone away from the neighboring ones, which are in the alternate rows.

Janmashtaminame

Ellipsis of Krishna Janmashtami.

jannnoun

The father of the jinn preceding humanity.

Jannaname

A female given name from Hebrew, a fanciful modern variant of Jane.

Jannatname

Paradise.

Jannatabadname

Gaur, an ancient Bengali city presently divided between Bangladesh and India, after falling to the Sena regime.

Jannernoun

Someone from Plymouth.

Janney couplernoun

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.

jannienoun

A janitor.

janolidnoun

Any member of the Janolidae (synonym of Proctonotidae), a family of sea slugs.

Janoskiname

A surname from Polish.

Janousekname

A surname.

Janovername

A surname.

Janovianadj

Of or relating to Arthur Janov (1924–2017), American creator of primal therapy.

Janowiakname

A surname from Polish.

Janowiczname

A surname from Polish.

Janowitzianadj

Of or relating to Morris Janowitz (1919–1988), American sociologist and professor who made major contributions to sociological theory, the study of prejudice, urban issues, and patriotism.

Janowskiname

A surname from Polish.

janpannoun

jampan (an open chair carried by several people).

Janschname

A surname from German.

Janse van Rensburgname

An Afrikaans surname.

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 18. 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.