English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 69 of 98
The division of sumo wrestlers above jonokuchi and below sandanme, containing the highest number of rikishi.
A member of the lowest division of sumo wrestlers (below jonidan) to which new recruits are promoted after their first tournament.
The ship of characters Jon Snow and Sansa Stark from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
Reminiscent of the works of Ben Jonson (1572-1637), English Renaissance satirical dramatist, poet, actor and contemporary of William Shakespeare.
Of or pertaining to Ben Jonson (1572-1637), English Renaissance satirical dramatist, poet, actor and contemporary of William Shakespeare, or to his works.
A Chinese person, especially a Cantonese person born in the United States or Canada, who has overly assimilated to Western culture and has little or no command of any Chinese language.
A non-canonical archangel of wisdom, understanding, and judgment, one of the Seven Archangels in Pseudo-Dionysian teachings.
Reminiscent of the works of Scott Joplin (c. 1867–1917), American ragtime composer and pianist.
In Indian music, a formal section of composition in the long elaboration (alap) of a raga that forms the beginning of a performance.
A non-associative algebra over a field whose product satisfies the axioms (i) xy=yx (the commutative law) and (ii) (xy)(xx)=x(y(xx)) (the Jordan identity).
A Jordan block over a ring R (whose identities are the zero 0 and one 1) is a matrix composed of 0 elements everywhere except for the diagonal, which is filled with a fixed element λ ∈ R, and the superdiagonal, which is composed of ones.
The theorem that states that a simple closed curve (Jordan curve) divides the plane into precisely two distinct areas.
A rule regarding the length of a criminal court case, usually limited to eighteen or thirty months from filing charges to trial.
The principle that the government or department that first receives a request to pay for a service for a First Nations child must pay for the service and resolve jurisdictional issues only thereafter.
An ecogeographic rule describing the inverse relationship between water temperature and meristic characteristics in various species of fish, including the fact that fin ray, vertebrae, or scale numbers increase with decreasing temperature.
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 69. 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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