English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 68 of 98
Of or pertaining to Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779–1869), military general and celebrated writer on the Napoleonic art of war.
The situation in which a user who has been trolled claims that they only posted in order to bait the troll into a response.
Reminiscent of the Biblical prophet Jonah, who was cast into the sea and swallowed by a great fish.
In time travel stories: a seemingly trivial event which ultimately marks the point of divergence between two radically different timelines.
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.
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.
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.
Of or relating to William Jones (1746-1794), inventor of a transliteration system for Indic scripts.
A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing aluminum, barium, hydrogen, oxygen, potassium, silicon, sodium, and titanium.
A former settlement in northern Guyana founded by the Peoples Temple cult, and the site of an infamous mass murder-suicide in November 1978.
The practice or performance of a jongleur ("an itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France").
An itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France; roles included song, music, acrobatics etc.; a troubadour.
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.
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.