English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 47 of 98
A pond, marsh, lake or similar wetland area, usually with significant vegetation providing shelter and/or food to a variety of aquatic and semi-aquatic animal species.
A hairstyle popular with the African-American community in the 1980s, giving a glossy, loosely curled look.
The saddlecloth, housings or trappings for an elephant, horse, or other domesticated animal.
The practice of cutting down and burning the vegetation from an area of forest in order to create farmable land.
Of a person, to be westernized; to have abandoned one's own cultural traditions in favor of a westernized lifestyle.
A popular Chinese street food originating in Tianjin; a subcategory of jianbing that consists of pancakes made from mung bean flour, eggs, and youtiao, served with sweet bean sauce, diced green onion, and optionally chili sauce.
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 47. 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.