English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 89 of 98
Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.
An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and zinc.
A form of academic conference which is run for other than academic purposes and which does not meet normal academic standards.
A silver dollar of the Republic of China, bearing the head of Sun Yat Sen on the obverse and a two-masted sailing junk on the reverse, first issued in 1934.
A drawer designated for the storage of various miscellaneous, small, useful items of little value.
A beverage with little or no nutritional value, often high in sugar, caffeine, or additives.
Food with little or no nutritional value; alternatively, food that supplies a large amount of nutrients but also excess calories, excess sugar or starch, and so on.
News stories consisting of sensationalized trivia rather than serious and responsible journalism.
Any mail or letters that are not welcome or solicited and typically sent in bulk; especially mail of a commercial nature such as advertising circulars and form letters.
A type of sail rig in which rigid members called battens span the full width of the sail and extend the sail forward of the mast.
A wide ring which fits in a groove around the piston of an internal combustion engine to keep it steamtight by retaining the packing in place.
Assertions or methods that have the appearance, but not the actuality, of scientific legitimacy.
Experiencing the nausea sometimes suffered by the user of a narcotic the following day, or after the effects of the drug begin to wear off, often with flulike symptoms.
Nausea or other flulike symptoms experienced by the user of a narcotic the following day or after the effects begin to subside.
A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
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 89. 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.