English Words: J
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A program written in Perl that outputs the text Just another Perl hacker, usually programmed in an obfuscated manner so that the output is not obvious until it is run.
The third son of Noah, brother to Shem and Ham, who received a blessing from God with Shem, considered to be the ancestor of the Japhetic people(s) (associated approx. with Indo-Europeans and Turkic peoples).
Of or pertaining to the supposed descendants of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible.
Japanese Filipino (a Filipino with Japanese descent, usually one of mixed descent, especially one who identifies as such.)
Japanese Filipino (a Filipino with Japanese descent, usually one of mixed descent, especially one who identifies as such.)
A language family spoken in Japan, consisting of Japanese proper and the Ryukyuan languages.
A species of camellia (Camellia japonica), a native flower of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers.
To ask loaded questions inviting someone to justify their views or behaviors, in an attempt to make tangential claims of little verisimilitude appear acceptable.
Of or relating to Elliott Jaques (1917–2003), Canadian psychoanalyst, social scientist and management consultant.
An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing boron, calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
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 21. 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.