English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 64 of 98
A person (or organization) who often expresses a strong opinion or viewpoint on a single subject or a few particular subjects.
A university and, in particular, a world-class school of medicine and teaching hospital located in Baltimore, Maryland.
A dark, brittle, vitreous mineral comprising mostly iron, phosphorus, and oxygen.
A perennial Mediterranean grass (Sorghum halepense) cultivated for forage, but considered invasive and noxious.
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).
An algorithm for finding the shortest paths between all pairs of vertices in an edge-weighted directed graph.
A method of scheduling jobs to reduce makespan and idle time among multiple work centres.
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.
The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words.
Of or pertaining to the English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), or characteristic of his style.
The sayings or writings of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English writer and lexicographer.
A manner of acting or writing characteristic of, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English writer and lexicographer.
Economic policies associated with the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963–1969.
Johnston Atoll is a small atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States.
A collection of sensory cells found in the pedicel of the antennae in the class Insecta.
A monoclinic-prismatic greenish black mineral containing barium, calcium, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, and phosphorus.
An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, niobium, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and tantalum.
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.
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.
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.