English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 88 of 98
Drumming performed, or as performed, in the rituals of traditional pre-industrial societies.
A play structure designed for children to climb on, traditionally constructed as a frame of metal bars as introduced in 1920.
An improvised mix of liquor, often with fruit juices, usually served for group consumption.
Extrajudicial punishment, including lynching, in a jungle (or, figuratively, a jungle-like area).
A system used by primitive cultures in remote tropical regions for communication over long distances, such as drum sounds or a relay of runners.
A forested region located in the present-day Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand.
Any of four semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds of the genus Gallus, native to southeast Asia, including the red junglefowl or domestic chicken.
A regional tour, undertaken between honbashos, during which the rikishi give exhibition matches.
The certificate awarded to Irish students who pass the state examinations at the end of the third year of secondary school.
A school for children who have completed elementary school or grade school, but are not yet old enough for high school. It often includes grades 7 and 8, and possibly also 6 or 9.
a member of a legislative body who holds a position in government below cabinet level, i.e. reporting to the head of a department, not the prime minister or head of government
A fictional guidebook with detailed information about all subjects in existence.
A tendency of juniors in high school to slack off as if they were seniors with senioritis.
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 88. 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.