4-letter words containing j
- jobs — Stephen Jobs
- jock — Scot. and Irish English. a nickname for John. an innocent lad; country boy.
- joco — a joke
- jodi — a female given name.
- jodl — Alfred [ahl-freyt] /ˈɑl freɪt/ (Show IPA), 1892?–1946, German general: signed the surrender of Germany on behalf of the German high command in World War II.
- jodo — Pure Land.
- jody — a male or female given name.
- joel — a Minor Prophet of the postexilic period.
- joes — beloved one; darling; sweetheart.
- joey — any young animal, especially a kangaroo.
- jogs — to move or shake with a push or jerk: The horseman jogged the reins lightly.
- john — (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) 1881–1963, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1958–63.
- join — to bring in contact, connect, or bring or put together: to join hands; to join pages with a staple.
- joke — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- joky — jokey.
- jole — jowl2 .
- jolo — an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Capital: Jolo.
- jols — Plural form of jol.
- jolt — Java Open Language Toolkit
- jomo — A female jo (yak-cow hybrid), the male such hybrid being a jobo or jopho.
- jon. — Jonah
- jong — A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.
- jook — a sudden, elusive movement.
- josh — a male given name, form of Joshua.
- joss — JOHNNIAC Open Shop System
- jota — a Spanish dance in triple meter, performed by a couple and marked by complex rhythms executed with the heels and castanets.
- jots — Plural form of jot.
- jouk — a sudden, elusive movement.
- joul — Alternative form of jowl.
- jour — day
- jove — Jupiter (def 1).
- jowl — a fold of flesh hanging from the jaw, as of a very fat person.
- jows — the ringing, tolling, or sound of a bell.
- joys — Plural form of joy.
- jozi — Johannesburg
- jpeg — Joint Photographic Experts Group
- jrmp — Java Remote Method Protocol
- jrst — /jerst/ [based on the PDP-10 jump instruction, obsolete] To suddenly change subjects, with no intention of returning to the previous topic. Usage: rather rare except among PDP-10 diehards, and considered silly. See also AOS.
- jsdk — Java Servlet Development Kit
- json — JavaScript Object Notation
- jtag — Joint Test Action Group
- jtpa — Job Training Partnership Act: a US federal law in place between 1982 and 1998 that was enacted to help young people and unskilled adults to gain the necessary skills to acquire employment
- juan — a male given name, Spanish form of John.
- juba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- jube — a screen with an upper platform, separating the choir of a church from the nave and often supporting a rood.
- juco — junior college
- juda — the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:35.
- judd — a male given name.
- jude — a book of the New Testament.
- judg — Obsolete form of judge.