4-letter words containing j
- jams — a preserve of whole fruit, slightly crushed, boiled with sugar: strawberry jam.
- jan. — January
- jane — a female given name: derived from John.
- jank — (computing, slang, rare) Problematic blocking of a software application's user interface due to slow operations.
- jann — the least powerful order of jinn
- jant — Obsolete form of jaunt.
- jape — to jest; joke; gibe.
- japh — (programming) A Perl program which prints "Just another Perl hacker" using extremely obfuscated methods, typically ones based on obscure behaviours of sometimes rarely-used functions, in the spirit of the Obfuscated C Contest. The obfuscation can result from the code being total gibberish, e.g.: $_="krJhruaesrltre c a cnp,ohet";$_.=$1,print$2while s/(..)(.)//; or from having "Just another Perl hacker" embedded in opaque code: $_='987;s/^(\d+)/$1-1/e;$1?eval:print"Just another Perl hacker,"';eval or from looking like it does something simple and completely unrelated to printing "Just another Perl hacker": $_ = "wftedskaebjgdpjgidbsmnjgc"; tr/a-z/oh, turtleneck Phrase Jar!/; print; Examples.
- japn — of, relating to, or characteristic of Japan, its people, or their language.
- jark — A seal (stamp or impression of a stamp).
- jarl — a chieftain; earl.
- jarp — To knock one pace-egg against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other’s egg and leaving one's own intact.
- jars — Plural form of jar.
- jas. — James
- jass — a card game for two persons that is played with a 36-card pack made by removing all cards below the sixes from a regular 52-card pack, in which point values are assigned to certain melds and to certain cards taken in tricks.
- jati — caste (def 2).
- jato — a jet-assisted takeoff, especially one using auxiliary rocket motors that are jettisoned at the completion of the takeoff.
- jauk — to dally; dawdle.
- jaup — a splash, spurt, or drop of water.
- java — the main island of Indonesia. 51,032 sq. mi. (132,173 sq. km).
- jawa — Java2
- jawn — Obsolete form of yawn.
- jawp — a splash, spurt, or drop of water.
- jaws — a swelling wave of water; billow.
- jawy — (obsolete) Relating to the jaws.
- jays — Plural form of jay.
- jazz — 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.
- jbig — Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group
- jbod — Just a Bunch Of Disks
- jct. — junction
- jdbc — Java Database Connectivity
- jean — born 1921, Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1964–2000.
- jeat — Obsolete form of jet.
- jebb — Sir Richard Claverhouse [klav-er-hous] /ˈklæv ərˌhaʊs/ (Show IPA), 1841–1905, Scottish scholar of classical Greek.
- jebs — ErrorTitleDiv {.
- jedi — a person who claims to live according to a philosophy based on that of the fictional Jedi, a caste of wizards in the Star Wars series of films by George Lucas, US film director
- jedr — (person, abuse, humour) Synonymous with IYFEG. At one time, people in the Usenet newsgroup news:rec.humor.funny tended to use "JEDR" instead of IYFEG or "
"; this stemmed from a public attempt to suppress the group once made by a loser with initials JEDR after he was offended by an ethnic joke posted there. (The practice was retconned by expanding these initials as "Joke Ethnic/Denomination/Race".) After much sound and fury JEDR faded away; this term appears to be doing likewise. JEDR's only permanent effect on the net.culture was to discredit "sensitivity" arguments for censorship so thoroughly that more recent attempts to raise them have met with immediate and near-universal rejection. - jeel — (of jelly, jam, etc) to congeal or become firm
- jeep — (lowercase) to ride or travel in a jeep.
- jeer — to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely: Don't jeer unless you can do better.
- jees — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jee.
- jeet — (slang, Texas, New Orleans)
- jeez — A mild expression used to show surprise or annoyance.
- jefe — leader; chief; boss.
- jeff — a male given name, form of Jeffrey.
- jehu — a king of Israel noted for his furious chariot attacks. II Kings 9.
- jell — to congeal; become jellylike in consistency.
- jelq — A penis enlargement technique in which the thumb and index finger are wrapped around the penis and repeatedly drawn away from the body in order to force blood into the glans and encourage vascularity.
- jena — a city in central Germany: Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians here in 1806.
- jeon — chon (def 2).