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Word
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Definition
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| jabberwock
| nonsense, gibberish
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| jabot
| lace frill worn on shirt or dress front
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| jacent
| lying flat; sluggish
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| jacinthe
| orange colour
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| jack
| medieval leather coat worn as armour
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| jack
| ship's flag flown from jack-staff at bow of vessel
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| jackanapes
| impudent child; conceited fellow
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| jack-block
| pulley system for raising topgallant masts
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| jack-cross-tree
| single iron cross-tree at head of a topgallant mast
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| jackstaff
| short staff at ship's bow from which the jack is hoisted
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| jackstay
| iron or wooden bar running along yard of ship to which sails fastened
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| jackyard
| spar used to spread the foot of a gaff-topsail
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| jacobin
| extremist or radical in politics
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| jaconet
| stout cotton cloth
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| jacquard
| intricately-woven variegated fabric; loom for making jacquard
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| jactancy
| boastfulness, vainglory
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| jactation
| throwing; boasting
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| jactitation
| a tossing, twitching or jerking of the body; a false claim
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| jaculation
| the act of throwing or hurling
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| jaculiferous
| having arrow-like prickles
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| jade
| pitiful horse; a nag
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| jaggery
| coarse and dark sugar
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| jalouse
| to suspect; to be jealous of
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| jalousie
| outside shutter with slats
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| jambeau
| armour worn on the legs
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| jambiya
| curved dagger with two edges
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| jampan
| an Indian sedan chair
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| janiform
| having two faces
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| janitrix
| a female janitor
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| janizary
| a follower or supporter
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| janker
| long pole on wheels for transporting logs
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| jannock
| outspoken; honest; outgoing
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| jansky
| unit of strength of radio wave emission
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| japan
| glossy black varnish or lacquer
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| japanophilia
| love or admiration for Japan or the Japanese
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| jardinière
| container for displaying flowers
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| jargonelle
| early pear
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| jargoon
| brilliant pale or colourless zircon
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| jark
| seal or insignia on a counterfeit document
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| jarta
| term of endearment
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| jaseran
| fine chain mail jacket
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| jaspe
| cotton or rayon cloth with shaded effect
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| jasperated
| mottled; streaked with various colours
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| jaunce
| to prance; to cause a horse to prance
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| jawhole
| cesspool; sewer entrance
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| jazzetry
| poetry read to jazz accompaniment
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| jebel
| hill or mountain
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| jecoral
| of, like or pertaining to the liver
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| jectigation
| wagging, tremulous movement
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| jejunator
| one who fasts
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| jejune
| lacking interest or significance; dull or insipid; dry; empty
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| jellygraph
| old device for copying that used a plate of jelly
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| jemadar
| an Indian police or customs officer
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| jemmy
| burglar's short crowbar
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| jennet
| small Spanish horse
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| jenneting
| early type of apple
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| jentacular
| of, like or pertaining to breakfast
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| jeofail
| official or legal acknowledgement of a mistake
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| jeremiad
| prolonged complaint; angry or cautionary harangue; lamentation
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| jerkinhead
| truncated gable with a lipped roof
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| jeroboam
| large bottle for holding equivalent of 6 ordinary wine bottles
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| jerque
| to search for smuggled goods
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| jersey
| plain weft-knitted fabric of wool, cotton, nylon or silk
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| jess
| ringed strap tied to leg of falcon or hawk
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| jessamy
| yellow like a jasmine
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| jessant
| in heraldry, overlying
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| jesserant
| splinted armour
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| jesuitical
| cunning; quibbling
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| jesuitocracy
| government by Jesuits
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| jetavator
| control surface for deflecting rocket exhaust
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| jeton
| stamped metal token used in card-playing or reckoning accounts
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| jettatura
| the evil eye
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| jib
| small triangular sail extending from the head of the foremast
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| jibboom
| spar forming an extension of the bowsprit
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| jibe
| to change a ship's course to make the boom shift sides
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| jiffy
| unit of time used in computing equal to 1/100 second; any small unit of time
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| jigamaree
| a thingamajig; a cunning manoeuvre
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| jiggermast
| aftermost mast of a four-masted ship
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| jiggumbob
| a thingamabob; a gadget; a whatsit; a gewgaw
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| jimswinger
| a frock coat
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| jink
| to move quickly with sudden turns and shifts
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| jinker
| light horse-drawn passenger carriage
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| jitney
| small passenger vehicle
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| jitterbug
| jazz dance featuring vigorous acrobatic feats
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| jive
| fast dance done to jazz or swing music
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| jnana
| knowledge obtained through meditation
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| jobation
| tedious scolding
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| jobbernowl
| a blockish or stupid head
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| jobbery
| the conduct of public business for private gain
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| jocko
| a chimpanzee
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| jockteleg
| large clasp knife
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| jocose
| merry; characterized by joking
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| jocoserious
| half in jest; half serious
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| joculator
| professional jester or minstrel
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| joggle
| tooth or pin to prevent surfaces from slipping
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| joinder
| legal uniting or joining
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| jointure
| property granted to wife for use after husband's death
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| joist
| beam supporting boards of a floor or laths of a ceiling
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| jolley
| guide for fixing a pottery mould for plates
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| jollyboat
| small boat kept hoisted at ship's stern
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| jolterhead
| clumsy oaf; blockhead
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| jongleur
| wandering minstrel
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| jordan
| a chamberpot
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| jorum
| large bowl containing drinks
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| joss
| luck, fate
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| jota
| fast Spanish folk dance in triple time
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| jougs
| iron collar attached to post and put around neck as punishment
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| jounce
| to bump or jolt
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| jovialist
| a convivial person
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| jow
| to ring a bell; a stroke of a bell
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| juba
| dance with clapping and leg slapping performed by Southern blacks
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| jubate
| maned; having or possessing a mane
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| jubbah
| long loose outer garment worn by Muslims
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| jube
| ornamental choir-screen
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| jubilarian
| one who celebrates a jubilee, especially a priest, monk, or nun
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| jubilate
| the third Sunday after Easter
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| jud
| mass of coal ready for final removal
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| judder
| strong vibration in an aircraft
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| judicature
| power of dispensing justice by trial
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| judogi
| jacket and trousers worn by practitioner of judo
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| jug
| sound of the nightingale
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| jugate
| side by side; in pairs; overlapping
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| juggins
| a simpleton
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| juglandaceous
| of, like or pertaining to walnuts
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| jugulate
| to cut the throat of
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| julep
| sweetened and often medicated drink
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| jumar
| mountaineering clip that grips rope when weight is applied
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| jumart
| impossible mythical offspring of a cow and donkey
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| jumbal
| thin crisp sweet cake
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| jumboism
| admiration for large things
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| jumelle
| paired or twinned article; opera-glasses
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| jumentous
| like a horse
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| juncaceous
| of, like or pertaining to rushes
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| juntocracy
| government by a junta
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| jupon
| sleeveless jacket worn beneath a hauberk
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| jural
| of, like or pertaining to the law
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| juramentum
| oath
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| jurant
| taking an oath; one who takes an oath
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| jurat
| memorandum at end of affidavit showing to whom it was sworn
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| juratory
| of, like or pertaining to an oath
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| jure
| by law
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| jurimetrics
| application of scientific methods to legal problems
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| jurisconsult
| legal expert
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| jurymast
| mast erected on ship in place of one lost
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| jus
| law; legal right
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| jussive
| expressing a command
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| justiciar
| administrator of justice; supreme judge
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| jutty
| projecting part of a wall
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| juvenal
| a youth; young bird's plumage
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| juvenescent
| becoming youthful
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| juvenilia
| works of one's youth; early works of an artist or author
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| juxtapositive
| indicating juxtaposition
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