English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 36 of 98
Enthusiasm for Caitlyn Jenner (born 1949), US decathlete who famously came out as transgender in 2015.
A female given name originating as a coinage, a twentieth-century blend of Jennifer and Lyn (or their variants).
A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
The carcass of a ray or skate, modified and dried to produce a mummified specimen that can be fraudulently exhibited as a demon, dragon, or other fictional creature.
The wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, especially as considered (in nursery-rhymes, etc.) as the wife or sweetheart of robin redbreast.
A surname from Danish [in turn originating as a patronymic] of Danish or Norwegian origin.
A metric used to determine the abnormal return of a security or portfolio over the theoretical expected return.
A particular programming technique that exploits call-by-name to change the value of an index variable during execution of a loop.
An inequality that relates the value of a convex function of an integral to the integral of the convex function.
The belief that an individual's intelligence is largely due to heredity, including racial heritage.
A monoclinic-prismatic emerald green mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and tellurium.
Of or pertaining to breakfast; specifically, one taken early in the morning or immediately upon getting up.
A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing antimony, arsenic, lead, sulfur, and thallium.
A form of lease in the South Korean real estate market in which the lessee does not pay rent, but instead provides the landlord with a large lump sum deposit which is returned in full once the lease has determined, with the landlord profiting through investment of the deposit.
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 36. 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.
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