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

James Parkinson
noun English surgeon (1755-1824)

James Thomas Farrell
noun United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979)

James Wilson
noun American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798)

James Wyatt
noun English architect (1746-1813)

Jamesian
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Henry James or his writing

jammed
jam-packed adjective filled to capacity; `a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes`; `stands jam-packed with fans`; `a packed theater`

jammer
noun a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming

jamming
electronic jamming noun deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems

jampan
noun a kind of sedan chair used in India

jampot
jamjar noun a jar for holding jellies or preserves

jangling
jangly adjective like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; `cowboys with jangling spurs`

Janis Joplin
noun United States singer who died of a drug overdose at the height of her popularity (1943-1970)

Jansenism
noun the Roman Catholic doctrine of Cornelis Jansen and his disciples; salvation is limited to those who are subject to supernatural determinism and the rest are assigned to perdition

Janus-faced
two-faced adjective having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; `Janus the two-faced god`

japan
noun lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient

Japan
Japanese Archipelago noun a string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean

Japanese
Nipponese adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language; `the Japanese Emperor`; `Japanese cars`

Japanese andromeda
lily-of-the-valley tree noun broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers

Japanese beetle
Popillia japonica noun small metallic green and brown beetle native to eastern Asia; serious plant pest in North America

Japanese crab
noun crabmeat usually canned; from Japan

Japanese deer
sika noun small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers

Japanese flowering cherry
noun ornamental tree with inedible fruit widely cultivated in many varieties for its pink blossoms

Japanese Islands
Japanese Archipelago noun a string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean

Japanese maple
Acer japonicum noun leaves deeply incised and bright red in autumn; Japan

Japanese oak
Lithocarpus glaber noun small evergreen tree of China and Japan

Japanese oyster
Ostrea gigas noun a large oyster native to Japan and introduced along the Pacific coast of the United States; a candidate for introduction in Chesapeake Bay

Japanese plum
noun small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor

Japanese Red Army
JRA noun a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists; `in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Israel`

Japanese spaniel
noun breed of toy dogs originating in Japan having a silky black-and-white or red-and-white coat

Japanese stranglehold
noun a wrestling hold in which the opponent`s arms are crossed in front of his own neck to exert pressure on his windpipe

Japanese-speaking
adjective able to communicate in Japanese

japonica
Chaenomeles japonica noun deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms

jar
noun a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles

jar
bump around verb shock physically; `Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game`

jarring
adjective making or causing a harsh and irritating sound; `the jarring noise of the iron gate scraping on the sidewalk`

jarringly
adverb in a manner that jars and irritates; `the piano was jarringly out of tune`

Jarvik heart
Jarvik artificial heart noun a kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success

jassid
noun a variety of leafhopper

Jassidae
family Jassidae noun family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications

jati
noun (Hinduism) a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India; a special characteristic is often the exclusive occupation of its male members (such as barber or potter)

jaundice
verb affect with, or as if with, jaundice

jaundiced
icteric adjective affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc

jaunt
verb make a trip for pleasure

jauntily
adverb in a jaunty fashionable manner; `his hat sat jauntily on his full brown hair`

jauntiness
dapperness noun stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance

jaunting car
jaunty car noun an open two-wheeled one-horse cart formerly widely used in Ireland

Java
noun a simple platform-independent object-oriented programming language used for writing applets that are downloaded from the World Wide Web by a client and run on the client`s machine

Java man
Trinil man noun fossil remains found in Java; formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus

Java sparrow
Java finch noun small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields

Javanese
Javan adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants; `Javanese temples`; `Javanese dialects`

Javanthropus
genus Javanthropus noun former genus of primitive man; now Homo soloensis: comprises Solo man

javelin
noun a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events

jaw
noun holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object

jawbreaker
noun a word that is hard to pronounce

jawed
adjective of animals having jaws of a specified type

jawfish
noun small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes

jawless
adjective of animals having no jaw

jawless vertebrate
jawless fish noun eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms

Jaws of Life
noun hydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside

jay
noun crested largely blue bird

Jayshullah
noun an indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999

jaywalk
verb cross the road at a red light

jazz
noun a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

jazz band
jazz group noun a small band of jazz musicians

jazz festival
noun a festival that features performances by jazz artists

jazz up
juice up verb make more interesting or lively; `juice up a party`; `pep up your paper`

jazzy
adjective resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm)

je ne sais quoi
noun something indescribable

jealous
green-eyed adjective suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; `a jealous lover`

jealously
adverb with jealousy; `he guarded his privacy jealously`

jealousy
green-eyed monster noun a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)

jean
noun (usually plural) close-fitting pants of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier noun French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830)

jeep
landrover noun a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain

jeer
jeering noun showing your contempt by derision

jeeringly
mockingly 1 gibingly adverb in a disrespectful jeering manner

Jefferson Davis
noun American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1808-1889)

Jeffersonian
adjective relating to or characteristic of Thomas Jefferson or his principles or theories; `Jeffersonian democracy`

jehad
noun a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels

Jehovah`s Witnesses
noun Protestant denomination founded in the United States by Charles Taze Russell in 1884

jejunal artery
noun branch of the superior mesenteric artery that supplies the jejunum

jejuneness
vapidness noun the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated

jejunity
vapidness noun the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated

jejunostomy
noun surgical creation of an opening between the jejunum and the anterior abdominal wall; will allow artificial feeding

jejunum
noun the part of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum

jell
set 7 congeal verb become gelatinous; `the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme`

jellaba
noun a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa

jellify
verb become jelly; `The sauce jellified`

jellify
verb make into jelly; `jellify a liquid`

jello
Jell-O noun fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder

jelly
noun a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit

jelly
verb make into jelly; `jellify a liquid`

jelly bean
jelly egg noun sugar-glazed jellied candy

jellyfish
medusa 2 medusan noun any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans

jellyroll
Swiss roll noun thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake

Jemaah Islamiyah
JI noun a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia

Jena
Battle of Jena noun the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians

jennet
jenny noun female donkey

jerboa
noun mouselike jumping rodent

jerboa kangaroo
kangaroo jerboa noun brush-tailed rat kangaroo