Jean Laffite
— Noun
– English
～ French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)
Jean Lafitte
— Noun
– English
～ French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)
jet lag
— Noun
– English
～ fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body's normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
— Noun
– English
～ French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
Japanese lawn grass
— Noun
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～ lawn grass common in China and Japan; grown also in United States
John le Carre
— Noun
– English
～ English writer of novels of espionage (born in 1931)
jumper lead
— Noun
– English
～ a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire; "it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads"
Japanese leaf
— Noun
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～ erect or partially climbing herb having large green or variegated leaves
Japanese leek
— Noun
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～ Asiatic onion with slender bulbs; used as early green onions
James Henry Leigh Hunt
— Noun
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～ British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
Jack Lemmon
— Noun
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～ United States film actor (1925-2001)
John Lennon
— Noun
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～ English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
— Noun
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～ French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868)
James Leonard Farmer
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～ United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)