English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 43 of 98
A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest; specifically, an upper storey which overhangs the part of the building below.
To remove something (especially dirt or graffiti) by spraying it with high-pressure water.
a mythical figure that "heals" someone mid-flight that needed a wheelchair to board but is able to get off on their own mobility; invoked to insinuate a passenger is "faking" their disability or need for wheelchair service to board faster but not to deplane after everyone else.
A precursor of lawn tennis, originally played by hitting the ball with the palm of the hand instead of with a racquet.
A construction that defines an equivalence relation on the set of skew standard Young tableaux.
Young people who are dazzlingly rich, elegant, etc.; the youthful part of fashionable society.
The proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource.
According to conspiracy theories, the planned or already established rule of the world by a secret global elite of Jews and Zionists.
Derogatory name for New York City: a major city in New York, United States, in reference to its large Jewish population.
A kind of edible fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae), growing on tree-trunks, formerly used for medicinal purposes.
A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer's mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.
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 43. 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.