English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 39 of 98
To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials.
A robust container for fuel or water, of a certain more or less rectangular shape, often made from pressed steel.
A modular concrete or plastic barrier designed to create walls that separate lanes of traffic or to block traffic.
A city in the Holy Land between the Mediterranean Sea and Dead Sea, holy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; the claimed capital city of both Israel and Palestine.
A variety of sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, native to North America, having yellow flower heads and edible tubers.
An Israeli national holiday on the 28th of Iyar commemorating the unification of Jerusalem in 1967.
The Talmud composed and compiled primarily from the teachings, discussions and disagreements of the Amoraim of the land of Israel.
A rare type of long QT syndrome associated with severe bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
A monoclinic-prismatic light green mineral containing calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, scandium, silicon, and sodium.
Alternative spelling of Yeshua (“Jesus” or “Joshua”); a traditional Biblical transliteration, now uncommon among Anglophones as pronunciation of initial Hebrew yodh can be more clearly represented by English grapheme ⟨y⟩ whereas the most common modern English pronunciation of ⟨j⟩ has become [d͡ʒ]. (Compare the related English names Jesus and Joshua; the variants with [d͡ʒ] for ⟨j⟩ have become standard.)
A process in historical linguistics by which negation is expressed first by a simple preverbal marker, then by a discontinuous marker (with elements both before and after the verb, as in the French ne ... pas) and in some cases through subsequent loss of the original preverbal marker, and so on.
Of or relating to Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language.
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 39. 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.