English Words: J

4,872 words · Page 68 of 98

joltheadnoun

A dunce; a blockhead.

joltilyadv

In a jolty way.

joltinessnoun

The state or condition of being jolty.

joltingadj

Causing or characterized by sudden abrupt movements.

joltinglyadv

In a jolting way; with abrupt, uneven shakes or knocks.

joltlessadj

Without jolts.

joltproofadj

Resistant to being damaged by jolting movements.

joltyadj

Characterised by jolts; bumpy or jerky.

Jolyname

A surname from French.

Jolyonname

A male given name from Latin, in quiet use since the 1920s.

jomanoun

female group leader in orientation camps

Jomdaname

A county of Chamdo, Tibet autonomous region, China.

jomernoun

A sweetheart, or favourite girl.

Jominianadj

Of or pertaining to Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779–1869), military general and celebrated writer on the Napoleonic art of war.

jomonoun

Alternative spelling of dzomo (“female yak–cow hybrid”).

Jomonadj

Relating to an early Neolithic culture in Japan and Korea.

jomponnoun

Archaic form of jampan.

Jonname

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of John.

Jonaerysname

Alternative spelling of Jonerys.

Jonagoldnoun

An apple cultivar, a cross between Golden Delicious and Jonathan.

Jonahname

A male given name from Hebrew.

Jonah fishingnoun

The situation in which a user who has been trolled claims that they only posted in order to bait the troll into a response.

Jonahesqueadj

Reminiscent of the Biblical prophet Jonah, who was cast into the sea and swallowed by a great fish.

Jonasname

A male given name from Hebrew.

Jonassonname

A surname.

Jonathanname

A son of Saul, first mentioned in 1 Samuel.

Jonaticnoun

A fan of the American pop rock band Jonas Brothers.

Jonavaname

A city in Kaunas, Lithuania.

jonbar hingenoun

In time travel stories: a seemingly trivial event which ultimately marks the point of divergence between two radically different timelines.

joneverb

To good-naturedly make fun of (someone); to roast.

Jonerysname

The ship of characters Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.

Jonesname

An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name John.

Jones diagramnoun

A type of Cartesian graph where each axis represents a different variable, and opposite directions along an axis represent different quantities rather than positive or negative signs of the same quantity; thus four variables are diagrammed in total.

Jones polynomialnoun

A particular knot polynomial that is an invariant of an oriented knot or link which assigns to each oriented knot or link a Laurent polynomial in the variable t^(1/2) with integer coefficients.

Jonesboroname

The name of several towns and cities, including:

Jonesernoun

A member of Generation Jones.

Jonesianadj

Of or relating to William Jones (1746-1794), inventor of a transliteration system for Indic scripts.

jonesingverb

present participle and gerund of jones

jonesitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing aluminum, barium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.

Jonessesname

plural of Jones

Jonestownname

A former settlement in northern Guyana founded by the Peoples Temple cult, and the site of an infamous mass murder-suicide in November 1978.

Jonestownernoun

An inhabitant of Jonestown.

Jonesvillename

A town in Louisiana.

Jonesvillianadj

Of or pertaining to Jonesville.

Jonesyname

Diminutive of Jones. A nickname of the surname Jones.

jongnoun

A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.

Jongianadj

Of or pertaining to Erica Jong (born 1942), American author and teacher.

jonglerynoun

The practice or performance of a jongleur ("an itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France").

jongleurnoun

An itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France; roles included song, music, acrobatics etc.; a troubadour.

jongseongnoun

(in Korean or the hangul script) a consonant or consonant cluster in the syllable coda

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 68. 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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