English Words: J
4,872 words · Page 92 of 98
An interpreter of Portuguese in the Far East, particularly in Macau and other Portuguese colonies between the 16th and the 18th centuries.
A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.
A period of time during which a person is obliged to be a member of a panel of people who may be called as members of one or more juries.
An acquittal by a jury of a defendant ignoring the facts of the case and/or the law.
The crime of unduly attempting to influence the composition or decisions of a jury during the course of a trial.
A temporary mast constructed when a vessel has been dismasted, usually in heavy weather.
The second highest division in sumo wrestling, below makuuchi and above makushita; rikishi at this point receive a salary.
The right of survivorship. This is often applied to survivorship in joint tenancy situations.
The right of citizenship in a nation acquired by being born to a parent or parents with citizenship in that nation.
a thin fabric woven from the fibers of the Manila plantain (abaca), Musa textilis, and pineapple leaves, to which filaments of imported silk are sometimes added and sometimes a little cotton. It is woven principally in Iloilo and western Luzon: used for women's dresses and, to some extent, for men's shirts.
Of or relating to Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748–1836), French botanist who was the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants.
The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.
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 92. 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.