4-letter words starting with j
- 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.
- judo — a method of defending oneself or fighting without the use of weapons, based on jujitsu but differing from it in banning dangerous throws and blows and stressing the athletic or sport element.
- judy — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
- juga — Plural form of jugum.
- jugg — Archaic spelling of jug.
- jugs — a sound made by a bird, especially a nightingale.
- juju — an object venerated superstitiously and used as a fetish or amulet by tribal peoples of West Africa.
- juke — to make a move intended to deceive (an opponent).
- juku — (in Japan) a school, attended in addition to one's regular school, where students prepare for college entrance examinations.
- jul. — Jul. is a written abbreviation for July.
- july — the seventh month of the year, containing 31 days. Abbreviation: Jul.
- jump — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
- jun. — Jun. is a written abbreviation for June.
- june — the sixth month of the year, containing 30 days. Abbreviation: Jun.
- jung — Carl Gustav [kahrl goo s-tahf] /kɑrl ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1875–1961, Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist.
- junk — narcotics, especially heroin.
- juno — the ancient Roman queen of heaven, a daughter of Saturn and the wife and sister of Jupiter: the protector of women and marriage. Compare Hera.
- junr — junior
- jupe — A style of skirt.
- jura — juice; gravy.
- jurd — Doctor of Law
- jure — jurisprudence
- jury — a group of persons sworn to render a verdict or true answer on a question or questions officially submitted to them.
- just — guided by truth, reason, justice, and fairness: We hope to be just in our understanding of such difficult situations.
- jute — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
- juts — Plural form of jut.
- jvei — Jewish Voice Employee Intranet
- jynx — A bird, the wryneck (Jynx or Iynx torquilla).