jet plane
— Noun
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~ an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
jointing plane
— Noun
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~ a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together
jointer plane
— Noun
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~ a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together
Jovian planet
— Noun
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~ any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter)
jumping plant louse
— Noun
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~ small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices
Japanese plum
— Noun
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~ small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
Japanese plum
— Noun
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~ evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
Japanese plum
— Noun
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~ yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
Japanese poinsettia
— Noun
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~ showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru
jumping-off point
— Noun
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~ a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out"
jugal point
— Noun
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~ the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson
— Noun
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~ French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764)
jiggery-pokery
— Noun
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~ verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
James Polk
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~ 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)
James K. Polk
— Noun
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~ 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)
James Knox Polk
— Noun
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~ 11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)
Jackson Pollock
— Noun
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~ United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)
Juan Ponce de Leon
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~ Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second trip in 1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth (1460-1521)
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
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~ French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673)