Nouns in english starting with J

• jacking off — Noun – English ～ slang for masturbation
• Jacques Offenbach — Noun – English ～ French composer of many operettas and an opera (1819-1880)
• Jasminum officinale — Noun – English ～ a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea
• Joseph Oliver — Noun – English ～ United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
• Java olives — Noun – English ～ large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food
• juvenile-onset diabetes — Noun – English ～ severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
• Jan Hendrix Oort — Noun – English ～ Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992)
• jewels-of-opar — Noun – English ～ erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere
• Jupiter Optimus Maximus — Noun – English ～ an epithet for Jupiter
• Jaffa orange — Noun – English ～ sweet almost seedless orange of Israel
• jewel orchid — Noun – English ～ any of several delicate Asiatic orchids grown especially for their velvety leaves with metallic white or gold veining
• jumping orchid — Noun – English ～ orchid having both male and female flowers in the same raceme; when a sensitive projection at the base of the column of the male flower is touched the pollen is suddenly ejected
• Jesuit order — Noun – English ～ a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship
• Jose Clemente Orozco — Noun – English ～ Mexican painter noted for his monumental murals (1883-1949)
• Jose Orozco — Noun – English ～ Mexican painter noted for his monumental murals (1883-1949)
• Jewish Orthodoxy — Noun – English ～ Jews who strictly observe the Mosaic law as interpreted in the Talmud
• John James Osborne — Noun – English ～ English playwright (1929-1994)
• John Osborne — Noun – English ～ English playwright (1929-1994)
• Jens Otto Harry Jespersen — Noun – English ～ Danish linguist (1860-1943)
• Jesse Owens — Noun – English ～ United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)

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