7-letter words containing j
- jawless — Lacking a jaw.
- jawlike — resembling a jaw or pair of jaws.
- jawline — The contour of the lower edge of a person's jaw.
- jawrope — a rope tied across the jaw of a gaff to hold it to the mast.
- jaybird — jay1 .
- jaywalk — to cross a street at a place other than a regular crossing or in a heedless manner, as diagonally or against a traffic light.
- jazelle — (database) A data management system for High Energy Physics from Stanford Linear Accelerator.
- jazz up — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- jazzily — In a jazzy way.
- jazzist — A jazz musician.
- jazzman — a musician who plays jazz.
- jazzmen — Plural form of jazzman.
- jealous — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- jeanine — a female given name.
- jeannie — a female given name, form of Jean.
- jeepers — Used to express surprise or alarm.
- jeeping — (lowercase) to ride or travel in a jeep.
- jeepney — a Philippine twin-benched jitney bus, seating about a dozen passengers.
- jeering — to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely: Don't jeer unless you can do better.
- jeffers — (John) Robinson, 1887–1962, U.S. poet.
- jeffrey — Francis ("Lord Jeffrey") 1773–1850, Scottish jurist, editor, and critic.
- jehovah — a name of God in the Old Testament, a rendering of the ineffable name, JHVH, in the Hebrew Scriptures.
- jejunal — the middle portion of the small intestine, between the duodenum and the ileum.
- jejunum — the middle portion of the small intestine, between the duodenum and the ileum.
- jellaba — a loose-fitting hooded gown or robe worn by men in North Africa.
- jellied — containing or made, spread, or topped with jelly or syrup; jellied: jelly apples.
- jellies — a food preparation of a soft, elastic consistency due to the presence of gelatin, pectin, etc., especially fruit juice boiled down with sugar and used as a sweet spread for bread and toast, as a filling for cakes or doughnuts, etc.
- jellify — to make into a jelly; reduce to a gelatinous state.
- jelling — to congeal; become jellylike in consistency.
- jelqing — The use of the jelq technique for penis enlargement.
- jemadar — any of various government officials.
- jemmied — Simple past tense and past participle of jemmy.
- jemmies — Plural form of jemmy.
- jenkins — Roy (Harris), Baron Jenkins of Hillhead. 1920–2003, British politician and author; Labour home secretary (1965–67, 1974–76) and chancellor of the exchequer (1967–70); president of the European Commission (1977–80); cofounder of the Social Democratic Party (1981); leader of party (1982–83); Chancellor of Oxford University (1987–2003)
- jennets — Plural form of jennet.
- jennies — a female given name, form of Jennifer.
- jeofail — an oversight in a legal pleading
- jeopard — to jeopardize.
- jerboas — Plural form of jerboa.
- jeremie — a seaport in SW Haiti.
- jericho — an ancient city of Palestine, N of the Dead Sea, formerly in W Jordan; occupied by Israel 1967–94; since 1994 under Palestinian self-rule.
- jeritza — Maria [mah-ree-ah] /mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1887–1982, Austrian operatic soprano.
- jerkers — Plural form of jerker.
- jerkier — Comparative form of jerky.
- jerkily — characterized by jerks or sudden starts; spasmodic.
- jerking — jerky2 .
- jerkins — Plural form of jerkin.
- jerkoff — (idiomatic, vulgar) A mean, nasty or obnoxious person.
- jerquer — a customs officer or other official responsible for searching ships for contraband or undeclared goods
- jerreed — a blunt wooden javelin used in games played on horseback in certain Muslim countries in the Middle East.