9-letter words starting with j
- jaywalker — One who jaywalks; someone who has committed jaywalking.-->.
- jaz drive — (hardware, storage) Iomega Corporation's drive which takes removable one or two gigabyte disk cartridges which contain conventional hard disks. Internal and external drives are available claiming an average transfer rate of 330 megabytes per minute - though that is dependent on the SCSI adapter, the parallel port adapter is unlikely to reach anything like this speed. The Jaz drive was the successor to the company's more establistablished Zip Drive.
- jazz band — a band specializing in jazz, and consisting typically of trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, piano, double bass, and percussion.
- jazz club — jazz music venue
- jazz rock — a style of music that combines jazz and rock
- jazz shoe — a man's plain, close-fitting, low-heeled oxford made of soft leather or other material and having a thin, flexible sole, worn for jazz dancing.
- jazz-rock — music that combines elements of both jazz and rock and is usually performed on amplified electric instruments.
- jazzed 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.
- jazzed-up — made more exciting and more modern
- jazzfests — Plural form of jazzfest.
- jazziness — The state, quality or property of being jazzy.
- jazzwoman — a female jazz musician.
- jazzwomen — Plural form of jazzwoman.
- jealously — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- jean paul — Burton, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- jeannette — a city in W Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- jeeringly — to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely: Don't jeer unless you can do better.
- jeevesian — of, relating to, or like the butler Jeeves, who was, in the fiction of P. G. Wodehouse, a master of tact, euphemism, and ingenuity
- jefferies — Richard. 1848–87, British writer and naturalist, noted for his observation of English country life: his books include Bevis (1882) and collections of essays such as The Open Air (1885)
- jefferson — Joseph, 1829–1905, U.S. actor.
- jejunitis — (pathology) inflammation of the jejunum.
- jellified — Simple past tense and past participle of jellify.
- jellifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jellify.
- jelly bag — a muslin bag used to strain off the juice from the fruit in making jelly (the preserve)
- jellybean — a small, bean-shaped, usually brightly colored candy with a hard sugar coating and a firm gelatinous filling.
- jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
- jellylike — 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.
- jellyroll — a thin, rectangular layer of sponge cake, spread with fruit jelly and rolled up.
- jelutongs — Plural form of jelutong.
- jemminess — neatness or smartness
- jenkinson — Robert Banks, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, 1770–1828, British statesman: prime minister 1812–27.
- jenneting — an apple that ripens early in the growing season
- jensenism — the theory that an individual's IQ is largely due to heredity, including racial heritage.
- jeoparded — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopard.
- jeoparder — a person who puts in jeopardy
- jequirity — the rosary pea, Abrus precatorius, of the legume family.
- jeremiads — Plural form of jeremiad.
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- jerkiness — characterized by jerks or sudden starts; spasmodic.
- jerkingly — in a jerking manner
- jerkwater — Informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town.
- jeroboams — Plural form of jeroboam.
- jerry can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- jerry-rig — jury-rig.
- jerseyman — a native or inhabitant of the island of Jersey.
- jerubbaal — Gideon (def 1).
- jerusalem — a republic in SW Asia, on the Mediterranean: formed as a Jewish state May 1948. 7984 sq. mi. (20,679 sq. km). Capital: Jerusalem.
- jespersen — (Jens) Otto (Harry) [yens ot-oh hahr-ee] /yɛns ˈɒt oʊ ˈhɑr i/ (Show IPA), 1860–1943, Danish philologist.
- jessamine — a female given name, form of Jasmine.
- jesselton — former name of Kota Kinabalu.