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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

Ixodidae
family Ixodidae noun hard ticks

Izaak Walton
noun English writer remember for his treatise on fishing (1593-1683)

izar
noun a voluminous cotton outer garment (usually white) traditionally worn by Muslim women of northern Africa and the Middle East; covers the entire body

jab
noun a quick short straight punch

jab
poke 1 poking noun a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); `he warned me with a jab with his finger`; `he made a thrusting motion with his fist`

jabber
jabbering noun rapid and indistinct speech

jabberwocky
noun nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)

jabbing
poke 1 poking noun a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); `he warned me with a jab with his finger`; `he made a thrusting motion with his fist`

jabiru
noun large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America

Jabiru mycteria
noun large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America

jabot
noun a ruffle on the front of a woman`s blouse or a man`s shirt

jaboticaba
noun tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil

jacamar
noun tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage

jack
noun any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas

jack
noun game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks

jack mackerel
Spanish mackerel 3 saurel 2 Trachurus symmetricus noun a California food fish

jack oak
Quercus ellipsoidalis noun small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes

jack plane
noun a carpenter`s plane for rough surfacing

jack-in-the-box
noun plaything consisting of a toy clown that jumps out of a box when the lid is opened

jack-o`-lantern
noun lantern carved from a pumpkin

jackal
Canis aureus noun Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair

jackass
noun male donkey

jackass bat
spotted bat noun a large bat of the southwestern United States having spots and enormous ears

jackass penguin
Spheniscus demersus noun small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying call

jackdaw
daw noun common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery

jacket
noun a short coat

jacket crown
noun (dentistry) an artificial crown fitted over a broken or decayed tooth

jacket potato
noun a baked potato served with the jacket on

jackfruit
jak noun immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted

Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson noun United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)

jacking off
jerking off noun slang for masturbation

jackknife
noun a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out

jackknife-fish
Equetus lanceolatus noun black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin

jacklight
noun a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night

jackrabbit
noun large hare of western North America

jacks
jackstones noun a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball

jackscrew
screw jack noun screw-operated jack

jacksmelt
Atherinopsis californiensis noun a relatively large silversides of the Pacific coast of North America (known to reach 18 inches in length)

jacksnipe
Limnocryptes minima noun a small short-billed Old World snipe

Jackson
Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson noun United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885)

Jacksonian
adjective of or pertaining to Andrew Jackson or his presidency or his concepts of popular democracy

jackstones
noun game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks

jackstraw
spillikin noun a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws

jackstraws
spillikins noun a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others

Jacob`s ladder
jack ladder noun (nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps

Jacobean
adjective of or relating to James I or his reign or times; `Jacobean writers`

Jacobinic
Jacobinical adjective of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; `Jacobinic terrorism`

Jacobinism
noun the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror

Jacobus Arminius
Jacob Harmensen noun Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609)

jaconet
noun a lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and slightly stiff finish; used for clothing and bandages

Jacquard loom
Jacquard noun a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics

Jacques Charles
Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles noun French physicist and author of Charles`s law which anticipated Gay-Lussac`s law (1746-1823)

Jacques Etienne Montgolfier
noun French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799)

Jacques Louis David
noun French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)

jactitation
jactation noun (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness

Jaculus
genus Jaculus noun jerboas

Jaculus jaculus
noun a variety of jerboa

jade
jade-green adjective of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green

jade
nag noun an old or over-worked horse

jade green
jade noun a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green

jaded
wearied adjective exhausted; `my father`s words had left me jaded and depressed`- William Styron

jaeger
noun rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey

Jaffa orange
noun sweet almost seedless orange of Israel

jag
dag noun a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing

jagged
jaggy adjective having a sharply uneven surface or outline; `the jagged outline of the crags`; `scraggy cliffs`

jaggedness
noun something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface

jaggery palm
kitul noun fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago

jaguar
panther 3 Panthera onca noun a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis

jaguarundi
jaguarundi cat noun long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat

jai alai
pelota noun a Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket

jail
jailhouse noun a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

jail cell
prison cell noun a room where a prisoner is kept

jail delivery
noun the use of force to liberate prisoners

Jain
Jainist adjective relating to or characteristic of Jainism; `Jain gods`

Jainism
noun religion founded in the 6th century BC as a revolt against Hinduism; emphasizes asceticism and immortality and transmigration of the soul; denies existence of a perfect or supreme being

Jaish-i-Mohammed
Jaish-e-Muhammad noun a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings

Jalalabad
noun a town in eastern Afghanistan (east of Kabul)

jalapeno
jalapeno pepper noun hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico

jalopy
noun a car that is old and unreliable; `the fenders had fallen off that old bus`

jalousie
noun a shutter made of angled slats

jam
noun preserve of crushed fruit

jam session
noun an impromptu jazz concert

Jamaat ul-Fuqra
Fuqra noun an Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North America and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attack other Muslims who they regard as heretics

Jamaica caper tree
Capparis cynophallophora noun shrub of southern Florida to West Indies

Jamaica quassia
Picrasma excelsum noun West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia

Jamaica rum
noun heavy pungent rum from Jamaica

Jamaican
adjective of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or to its inhabitants; `Jamaican rum`; `the Jamaican Prime Minister`

jamais vu
noun the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; associated with certain types of epilepsy

jamb
noun upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame

jambalaya
noun spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery

jamberry
Physalis ixocarpa noun annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
noun United States painter (1834-1903)

James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin noun United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism (1924-1987)

James Bond
noun British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming

James Clark Ross
Sir James Clark Ross noun British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)

James Cook
Captain Cook noun English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

James Harvey Robinson
noun United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)

James I
King James noun the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)

James II
noun the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)

James Mill
noun Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham`s utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)