English Words: J

4,872 words · Page 47 of 98

jheelnoun

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.

Jhelumname

A city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the right bank of that river.

Jheri curlnoun

A hairstyle popular with the African-American community in the 1980s, giving a glossy, loosely curled look.

jhinganoun

prawn

Jhingadename

A transliteration of the Marathi surname झिंगाडे (jhiṅgāḍe).

jholanoun

a cloth sling bag, usually one considered cheap or simple

Jhongjhengname

Alternative form of Zhongzheng (in Keelung).

Jhongliname

Alternative form of Zhongli.

Jhongshaname

Alternative form of Zhongsha.

Jhongshanname

Alternative form of Zhongshan (in Keelung).

jhoolnoun

The saddlecloth, housings or trappings for an elephant, horse, or other domesticated animal.

jhopadpattinoun

An urban slum of tents or makeshift huts.

jhownoun

A grassy tamarisk shrub, of species Tamarix indica, common in river-marshes.

Jhubeiname

Alternative form of Zhubei.

jhummingnoun

The practice of cutting down and burning the vegetation from an area of forest in order to create farmable land.

Jhunname

A diminutive of the male given name Junior

Jhunjhunname

A diminutive of the male given name Junior

Jhuolanname

An urban township in Miaoli County, Taiwan.

JInoun

Initialism of John Innes, a generic range of horticultural composts.

Ji Linname

Alternative form of Jilin.

Ji'anname

A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.

Ji'nanname

Misspelling of Jinan.

Jianame

A surname.

Jiadingname

A district of Shanghai, China.

Jiagedaqiname

An administrative zone in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

jiak kentangverb

Of a person, to be westernized; to have abandoned one's own cultural traditions in favor of a westernized lifestyle.

jialatadj

Sapping of one’s strength; tiresome.

Jialingname

A left tributary of the Yangtze in Sichuan, China.

Jiamaoname

A town in Baoting, Hainan, China.

Jiamusiname

A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.

Jian'anname

A district of Xuchang, Henan, China.

Jian'ouname

A county-level city of Nanping, Fujian, China.

Jiananame

A village and commune of Mehedinți County, Romania.

jianbingnoun

A thin Chinese fried-egg pancake similar to a crepe, typically sold as street food.

jianbing guozinoun

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.

Jiancaopingname

A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.

Jianchangname

Former name of Xichang.

Jiandename

A county-level city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Jianduname

Former name of Xichang.

Jiangname

A surname from Mandarin; variant forms Chiang, (obsolete) Kiang.

jiang huname

the subculture of the martial arts community

Jiang Suname

Alternative form of Jiangsu.

Jiang Xiname

Alternative form of Jiangxi.

Jiang'anname

A county of Yibin, Sichuan, China.

Jiangbeiname

A district of Chongqing, China.

Jiangdongname

The Sixty-Four Villages East of the River in Amur Oblast, Russia.

Jianghanname

A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China, part of Hankou.

Jiangjinname

A district of Chongqing, China.

jiangjunnoun

A Chinese general.

Jiangkouname

A county of Tongren, Guizhou, China.

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.