English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 86 of 98
Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
A pair of insulated electrical wires with alligator clips at each end (typically used to jump-start a car with a dead (flat) battery).
A strike with one's hand while grabbing the collar of the recipient's guernsey with the same hand.
The religious practices of the jumpers (Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions).
Informal association football as played by children, especially as a romantic or old-fashioned ideal contrasted against the commercialism and cynicism of modern professional football.
A kind of formwork; a temporary mold, made from planks, into which concrete is poured, in order to create vertical concrete structures that rise with the building process.
A fictional device able to create an Einstein-Rosen bridge portal (or wormhole), allowing fast travel between two points in space.
A cactus of species Cylindropuntia fulgida, of the southwestern US and Sonora in Mexico.
A rare disorder involving an exaggerated startle reflex which may be described as an uncontrollable jump.
Any species of the taxonomic family Zapodidae of rodents, variously endemic to North America or China.
Nonce variation of the word jump, usually used to indicate a series of small jumping actions.
One who supervises the jumping of paratroopers or other parachutists from an aeroplane.
A sexual partner who is more than a one-night stand but with whom one does not intend to form a long-term romantic relationship.
The situation where off-duty airline staff are permitted to travel for free, occupying unbooked seats in an aircraft.
A spaceship able to instantaneously move large distances through space by traveling through hyperspace or jumpspace.
A web site that acts as a portal, offering links to many other sites on a particular topic.
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 86. 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.