5-letter words starting with j
- j say — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1767–1832, French economist. Compare Say's law.
- j-bar — a J-shaped hook suspended from the moving cable of a ski lift, used to pull a skier uphill
- j-pop — pop music from Japan (often used attributively): J-pop fans; This station plays all my favorite J-pop.
- jabal — a son of Lamech, and the progenitor of nomadic shepherds. Gen. 4:20.
- jabir — Geber.
- jabot — a decorative ruffle or other arrangement of lace or cloth attached at the neckline and extending down the front of a woman's blouse or dress or, formerly, of a man's shirt.
- jacal — JAffer's Canonical ALgebra
- jaccl — (tool) An LR1 grammar parser generator written by Dave Jones at Megatest.
- jack- — male
- jacks — a male given name, form of Jacob or John.
- jacky — gin1 .
- jacob — the second son of Isaac, the twin brother of Esau, and father of the 12 patriarchs. Gen. 25:24–34.
- jaded — dulled or satiated by overindulgence: a jaded appetite.
- jades — Plural form of jade.
- jaffa — a former seaport in W Israel, part of Tel Aviv-Jaffa since 1950: ancient Biblical town.
- jagan — Cheddi Berret [ched-ee ber-it] /ˈtʃɛd i ˈbɛr ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1918–97, Guyanese politician: prime minister of British Guiana 1953, president of Guyana 1992–97.
- jager — any of several rapacious seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that pursue weaker birds to make them drop their prey.
- jaggy — jagged; notched.
- jagir — Alternative spelling of jaghir.
- jagra — the state of wakefulness
- jahel — Jael.
- jahve — a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah.
- jails — Plural form of jail.
- jakes — a male given name, form of Jacob.
- jakey — a homeless alcoholic
- jakie — A South American striped frog, Pseudis paradoxa, remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult form.
- jalap — the dried tuberous root of any of several plants, especially Exogonium purga, of the morning glory family, or the light yellowish powder derived from it, used in medicine chiefly as a purgative.
- jalee — (in Indian architecture) decorated and pierced slabs of marble used as a screen.
- jaleo — A lively dance of Andalusian origin, or the music or handclapping which accompanies it.
- jalor — any of a wide variety of East Indian rowing and sailing ships.
- jamal — a male given name: from an Arabic word meaning “beauty.”.
- jambe — Architecture, Building Trades. either of the vertical sides of a doorway, arch, window, or other opening. either of two stones, timbers, etc., forming the sidepieces for the frame of an opening.
- jambi — a province on SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
- jambo — an E African salutation
- jambs — Plural form of jamb.
- jambu — Alternative form of jambul.
- james — James I.
- jamie — a male given name, form of James.
- jammu — a city in and the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, in the SW part, in N India.
- jammy — very lucky.
- janes — Plural form of jane.
- janet — Joint Academic NETwork
- janie — a female given name, form of Jane.
- janky — (slang) of poor quality, odd.
- janny — a janitor
- janty — Archaic form of jaunty.
- janus — an ancient Roman god of doorways, of beginnings, and of the rising and setting of the sun, usually represented as having one head with two bearded faces back to back, looking in opposite directions.
- japan — a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Capital: Tokyo. Japanese Nihon, Nippon.
- japed — Simple past tense and past participle of jape.
- japer — to jest; joke; gibe.
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