8-letter words starting with j
- jennings — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- jeopards — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeopard.
- jeopardy — hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury: For a moment his life was in jeopardy.
- jephthah — a judge of Israel. Judges 11, 12.
- jeremiad — a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.
- jeremiah — a Major Prophet of the 6th and 7th centuries b.c.
- jerepigo — a usually red heavy dessert wine
- jerk off — a quick, sharp pull, thrust, twist, throw, or the like; a sudden movement: The train started with a jerk.
- jerk out — to utter sharply and abruptly
- jerk-off — a stupid, bumbling, foolish, or lazy person; jerk.
- jerkface — (slang, vulgar, pejorative) An obnoxious or unlikeable person; a jerk.
- jerkings — Plural form of jerking.
- jerksome — Indicative of quick, rapid movements; jerky.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989).
- jeroboam — the first king of the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in N Palestine.
- jerrican — Alternative spelling of jerrycan.
- jerrycan — A large, flat -sided metal container for storing or transporting liquids, typically gasoline or water.
- jerseyan — a British island in the English Channel: the largest of the Channel Islands. 44 sq. mi. (116 sq. km). Capital: St. Helier.
- jerseyed — Dressed in a jersey.
- jessamyn — a female given name, form of Jasmine.
- jestbook — a book of jests or jokes.
- jesuitic — of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
- jet boat — a small, propellerless boat powered by an engine that ejects water for its thrust.
- jet fuel — fuel to be used in jet aircraft
- jet pipe — the duct attached to the rear of a gas turbine through which the exhaust gases are discharged, esp one fitted to an aircraft engine
- jet pump — A jet pump is a pump that operates on the principle of a high-pressure fluid jet and the venturi effect (= which exerts suction).
- jet wash — Aeronautics. the backwash caused by a jet engine.
- jetborne — carried by jet aircraft.
- jetfoils — Plural form of jetfoil.
- jetliner — a commercial jet plane for carrying passengers.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- jettison — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- jeunesse — the time of one's youth
- jew down — one of a scattered group of people that traces its descent from the Biblical Hebrews or from postexilic adherents of Judaism; Israelite.
- jewelers — Plural form of jeweler.
- jewelery — Misspelling of jewellery (UK).
- jewelled — (chiefly, of a watch) set with jewels.
- jeweller — a person who designs, makes, sells, or repairs jewelry, watches, etc.; a person who deals in jewels.
- jezebels — Plural form of jezebel.
- jhabvala — Ruth Prawer, original name Ruth Prawer. 1927–2013, British writer living in India and the US, born in Germany to Polish parents: author of the Booker-prizewinning novel Heat and Dust (1975) and scripts for films by James Ivory
- jiantizi — Alternative spelling of Jiantizi.
- jiaozhou — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- jib boom — a spar forming a continuation of a bowsprit.
- jickajog — a jogging or rolling motion
- jig back — an inclined cable tramway with two cars that are connected in such a way that as one goes up the other comes down.
- jigaboos — Plural form of jigaboo.
- jiggered — confounded; damned: I'm jiggered if I know what that sign means.
- jiggling — Present participle of jiggle.
- jigsawed — Simple past tense and past participle of jigsaw.
- jihadeen — jihadists
- jihadism — a jihadi.