Nouns in english starting with J

• jewess — Noun – English ～ a woman who is a Jew
• jewfish — Noun – English ～ large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre
• jewfish — Noun – English ～ large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales
• Jewish calendar — Noun – English ～ (Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years
• Jewish holy day — Noun – English ～ a religious holiday for Jews
• Jewison — Noun – English ～ Canadian filmmaker (born in 1926)
• jewry — Noun – English ～ Jews collectively
• jews' harp — Noun – English ～ a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity
• jezebel — Noun – English ～ a shameless impudent scheming woman
• jezebel — Noun – English ～ wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC)
• jfk — Noun – English ～ 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)
• JHVH — Noun – English ～ a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
• JI — Noun – English ～ a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia
• jiao — Noun – English ～ 10 jiao equal 1 yuan in China
• jib — Noun – English ～ any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
• jibboom — Noun – English ～ a spar that extends the bowsprit
• jibe — Noun – English ～ an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"
• Jidda — Noun – English ～ port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca
• Jiddah — Noun – English ～ port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca
• jiffy — Noun – English ～ a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"

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