J
1: a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second [syn: {joule}, {watt second}] 2: the 10th letter of the Roman a...
J particle
1: a neutral meson with a large mass [syn: {psi particle}]
J. B. Rhine
1: United States parapsychologist (1895-1980) [syn: {Rhine}, {Joseph Banks Rhine}]
J. B. S. Haldane
1: Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964) [syn: {Haldane}, {John Burdon Sanderson Halda...
J. C. Maxwell
1: Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879) [syn: {Maxwell}, {James Clerk Maxwell}]
J. Craig Ventner
1: United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire hu...
J. D. Salinger
1: United States writer (born 1919) [syn: {Salinger}, {Jerome David Salinger}]
J. E. Johnston
1: Confederate general in the American Civil War; led the Confederate troops in the West (1807-1891) [syn: {Johnston}, {Joseph Eggleston Johnston}]
J. Edgar Hoover
1: United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972) [syn: {Hoover}, {John Edgar Hoover}]
J. J. Hill
1: United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916) [syn: {Hill}, {James Jerome Hill}]
J. M. Barrie
1: Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937) [syn: {Barrie}, {James Barrie}, {James Matthew Barrie}, {Sir James Matthew Barrie}]
J. M. Synge
1: Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909) [syn: {Synge}, {John Millington Synge}, {Edmund John Millington Synge}]
J. P. Morgan
1: United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913) [syn: {Morgan}, {John Pierpont Morgan}]
J. R. Firth
1: English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960) [syn: {Firth}, {Joh...
J.R.R. Tolkien
1: British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973) [syn: {Tolkien}, {John Ronald Reuel Tolkien}]
jab
1: a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist" [syn: {jabbing}, {poke}, {poking}, {thrust}, {thrusting}] 2: a quick ...
Jabalpur
1: an industrial city of central India southeast of Delhi [syn: {Jubbulpore}]
Jabat al-Tahrir al-Filistiniyyah
1: a terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; became a satellite of al-Fatah; made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanes...
jabber
1: rapid and indistinct speech [syn: {jabbering}, {gabble}] v : talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: {rant}, {mouth off}, {spout}, {rabbit on}, {rave}]
jabberer
1: someone whose talk is trivial drivel [syn: {driveller}]
jabbering
1: talking idly or incoherently; "blithering (or blathering) idiot"; "jabbering children"; "gabbling housewives"; "a babbling hospital inmate" [syn: {blathering}, {blithering}, {babbling}] n : rapid a...
jabberwocky
1: nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)
jabiru
1: large mostly white Australian stork [syn: {policeman bird}, {black-necked stork}, {Xenorhyncus asiaticus}] 2: large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around th...
Jabiru mycteria
1: large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America [syn: {jabiru}]
jaboncillo
1: evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans [syn: {China tree}, {false dogwood}, {chinaberry}, {Sapindus saponaria}]
jabot
1: a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt
jaboticaba
1: small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along t...
jaboticaba tree
1: small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along t...
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jacamar
1: tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage
jacaranda
1: an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black [syn: {Brazilian rosewood}, {caviuna wood}, {Dalbergia nigra}]
jacinth
1: a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone [syn: {hyacinth}]
jack
1: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn: {diddly-squat}, {diddlysquat}, {diddly-shit}, {diddlyshit}, {diddly}, {diddley}, {squat}, {shit}] 2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: {marine...
jack bean
1: annual semi-erect bushy plant of tropical South America bearing long pods with white seeds grown especially for forage [syn: {wonder bean}, {giant stock bean}, {Canavalia ensiformis}]
Jack Benny
1: United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor (1894-1974) [syn: {Benny}, {Benjamin Kubelsky}]
jack crevalle
1: fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico [syn: {crevalle jack}, {Caranx hippos}]
Jack Dempsey
1: United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983) [syn: {Dempsey}, {William Harrison Dempsey}, {The Manassa Mauler}]
Jack Frost
1: a personification of frost or winter weather
Jack Kennedy
1: 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963) [syn: {Kennedy}, {John Fitzgerald Kennedy}, {JFK}, {President Kennedy}, {President John F. Kenne...
Jack Kerouac
1: United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969) [syn: {Kerouac}, {Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac}]
jack ladder
1: (nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps [syn: {Jacob's ladder}, {pilot ladder}]
Jack Lemmon
1: United States film actor (born in 1925) [syn: {Lemmon}, {John Uhler}]
Jack London
1: United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916) [syn: {London}, {John Griffith Chaney}]
jack mackerel
1: a California food fish [syn: {horse mackerel}, {Spanish mackerel}, {saurel}, {Trachurus symmetricus}]
Jack Nicklaus
1: United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940) [syn: {Nicklaus}, {Jack William Nicklaus}]
jack oak
1: a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad 3-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets [syn: {blackjack oak}, {blackjack}, {...
Jack of all trades
1: a person able to do a variety of different jobs acceptably well 2: a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks [syn: {handyman}, {odd-job man}]
jack off
1: get sexual gratification through self-stimulation [syn: {masturbate}, {wank}, {fuck off}, {she-bop}, {jerk off}]
jack pine
1: slender medium-sized 2-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly gray to red-brown fissured bark [syn: {Pinus banksiana}]
jack plane
1: a carpenter's plane for rough surfacing
Jack Roosevelt Robinson
1: United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972) [syn: {Robinson}, {Jackie Robinson}]
jack salmon
1: pike-like freshwater perches [syn: {walleye}, {walleyed pike}, {Stizostedion vitreum}]
jack up
1: lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire" [syn: {jack}]
Jack William Nicklaus
1: United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940) [syn: {Nicklaus}, {Jack Nicklaus}]
jack-a-lantern
1: a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent [syn: {jack-o-lantern fungus}, {jack-o-lantern}, {Omphalotus illudens}]
jack-by-the-hedge
1: European herb that smells like garlic [syn: {garlic mustard}, {hedge garlic}, {sauce-alone}, {Alliaria officinalis}]
jack-in-the-box
1: plaything consisting of a toy clown that jumps out of a box when the lid is opened [also: {jacks-in-the-box} (pl)]
jack-in-the-pulpit
1: common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries [syn: {Indian turnip}, {w...
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