English Words: J

4,872 words · Page 64 of 98

Johnny-come-latelynoun

A newcomer; a novice; an upstart.

Johnny-jump-upnoun

Any of several violets or pansies.

Johnny-one-notenoun

A person (or organization) who often expresses a strong opinion or viewpoint on a single subject or a few particular subjects.

johnnycakenoun

A dense, baked or fried flatbread made of cornmeal.

Johnsname

An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from John.

Johns Hopkinsname

A university and, in particular, a world-class school of medicine and teaching hospital located in Baltimore, Maryland.

johnsomervilleitenoun

A dark, brittle, vitreous mineral comprising mostly iron, phosphorus, and oxygen.

johnsonnoun

Penis.

Johnson barnoun

A corrugated metal bar used to reinforce concrete.

Johnson Cityname

A small city, the county seat of Stanton County, Kansas, United States.

Johnson grassnoun

A perennial Mediterranean grass (Sorghum halepense) cultivated for forage, but considered invasive and noxious.

Johnson holenoun

A large shell crater during the First World War.

Johnson solidnoun

Any of a class of convex polyhedra that have regular faces but are not uniform (that is, not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms, or antiprisms).

Johnson's algorithmname

An algorithm for finding the shortest paths between all pairs of vertices in an edge-weighted directed graph.

Johnson's rulename

A method of scheduling jobs to reduce makespan and idle time among multiple work centres.

Johnson-Nyquist noisenoun

The electronic noise generated by the thermal agitation of the charge carriers (usually the electrons) inside an electrical conductor at equilibrium, which happens regardless of any applied voltage.

Johnsonesename

The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words.

Johnsonianadj

Of or pertaining to the English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), or characteristic of his style.

Johnsoniananoun

The sayings or writings of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English writer and lexicographer.

Johnsonianismnoun

A manner of acting or writing characteristic of, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English writer and lexicographer.

Johnsonianlyadv

In a Johnsonian manner.

Johnsonismnoun

Synonym of Johnsonianism.

Johnsonitenoun

A Marxist supporting the ideas of the Johnson–Forest Tendency.

Johnsonomicsnoun

Economic policies associated with the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963–1969.

Johnsonvillename

A town in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

Johnstonname

A Scottish habitational surname. from a place in Dumfriesshire, meaning "John's town".

Johnston Atollname

Johnston Atoll is a small atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States.

Johnston's organnoun

A collection of sensory cells found in the pedicel of the antennae in the class Insecta.

johntomaitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic greenish black mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.

johnwalkitenoun

An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, niobium, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and tantalum.

johonoun

A woolen robe worn by Arabs.

Johorname

A state in southern Malaysia. Capital: Johor Bahru.

Johor Bahruname

The capital city of Johor, Malaysia.

Joicename

A surname.

Joiceyname

A surname.

joie de vivrenoun

Enjoyment of living; happiness, ebullience, zest for life.

Joignyname

A town in Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

joinverb

To connect or combine into one; to put together.

join forcesverb

To combine labour, to come together, to unite.

join handsverb

To hold hands (to clasp each other's hands).

join issueverb

Of two people, to argue with one another.

join the clubphrase

An expression of sympathy for a shared experience.

join the dotsverb

Synonym of connect the dots.

join upverb

To unite or connect.

join4joinnoun

On the social instant messaging and VoIP service Discord, the practice of joining a person's server (collection of chatrooms) in exchange for said person mutually joining one's server back, generally with the goal of artificially inflating one's server membership count.

joinabilitynoun

The ability to join or be joined.

joinableadj

That can be joined.

joindernoun

The joining of a litigant to a suit.

joinedverb

simple past and past participle of join

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 64. 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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