7-letter words starting with j
- 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.
- jerries — Plural form of jerry.
- jerseys — Plural form of jersey.
- jessamy — jasmine
- jessant — shooting up, as a plant.
- jessica — a female given name, form of Jesse.
- jesters — Plural form of jester.
- jestful — a joke or witty remark; witticism.
- jesting — a joke or witty remark; witticism.
- jesuits — a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
- jet gun — a small, pressurized device that injects a drug at sufficient velocity to penetrate the skin, used especially for immunizations.
- jet lag — a temporary disruption of the body's normal biological rhythms after high-speed air travel through several time zones.
- jet set — a fashionable social set composed of wealthy people who travel frequently by jetliner to parties and resorts.
- jet ski — small motorized water vehicle
- jet-hop — to travel by jet plane, especially to travel to a series of destinations on one trip.
- jetbead — a shrub, Rhodotypos scandens, of the rose family, having white flowers and glossy black fruit, cultivated as an ornamental.
- jetboat — A boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft.
- jetfoil — a passenger-carrying, jet-propelled hydrofoil, often having a control and stabilization system like that of an aircraft.
- jetlike — Resembling jet (the precious stone).
- jetpack — a jet-powered backpack used by astronauts to move around in space away from a spacecraft.
- jetport — an airport designed to handle commercial jet planes.
- jettied — a pier or structure of stones, piles, or the like, projecting into the sea or other body of water to protect a harbor, deflect the current, etc.
- jetties — Plural form of jetty.
- jetting — a stream of a liquid, gas, or small solid particles forcefully shooting forth from a nozzle, orifice, etc.
- jewbush — The low-growing tropical American shrub Euphorbia tithymaloides (formerly Pedilanthus tithymaloides).
- jeweled — a cut and polished precious stone; gem.
- jeweler — a person who designs, makes, sells, or repairs jewelry, watches, etc.; a person who deals in jewels.
- jewelry — articles of gold, silver, precious stones, etc., for personal adornment.
- jewfish — any of several very large fishes, especially of the family Serranidae, as the giant sea bass and the groupers Epinephelus itajara and E. nigritus, found in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.