Jacquard
1: French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834) [syn: {Joseph M. Jacquard}, {Joseph Marie Jacquard}] 2: a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacqu...
Jacquard loom
1: a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics [syn: {Jacquard}]
Jacqueline Cochran
1: United States aviator who held several speed records and headed the women's Air Force pilots in World War II (1910-1980) [syn: {Cochran}]
Jacquemier's sign
1: a purplish discoloration of the mucous membrane of the vagina that occurs early in pregnancy
Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles
1: French physicist and uathor of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823) [syn: {Charles}, {Jacques Charles}]
Jacques Bernoulli
1: Swiss mathematician (1654-1705) [syn: {Bernoulli}, {Jakob Bernoulli}, {James Bernoulli}]
Jacques Cartier
1: French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557) [syn: {Cartier}]
Jacques Charles
1: French physicist and uathor of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823) [syn: {Charles}, {Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles}]
Jacques Costeau
1: French underwater explorer (born in 1910) [syn: {Cousteau}, {Jacques Yves Costeau}]
Jacques Derrida
1: French philosopher and critic; exponent of deconstructionism (born in 1930) [syn: {Derrida}]
Jacques Etienne Montgolfier
1: French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799) [syn: {Montgolfier}]
Jacques Lipchitz
1: United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973) [syn: {Lipchitz}]
Jacques Loeb
1: United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924) [syn: {Loeb}]
Jacques Louis David
1: French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825) [syn: {David}]
Jacques Lucien Monod
1: French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976) [syn: {Monod}, {Jacques Monod}]
Jacques Marquette
1: French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675) [syn: {Marquette}, {Pere Jacques Marquette}]
Jacques Monod
1: French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976) [syn: {Monod}, {Jacques Lucien Monod}]
Jacques Offenbach
1: French composer of many operettas and an opera (1819-1880) [syn: {Offenbach}]
Jacques Tati
1: French filmmaker (1908-1982) [syn: {Tati}, {Jacques Tatischeff}]
Jacques Yves Costeau
1: French underwater explorer (born in 1910) [syn: {Cousteau}, {Jacques Costeau}]
Jacquinia
1: sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae [syn: {genus Jacquinia}]
Jacquinia armillaris
1: small West Indian shrub or tree with hard glossy seeds patterned yellow and brown that are used to make bracelets [syn: {bracelet wood}]
Jacquinia keyensis
1: West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood [syn: {barbasco}, {joewood}]
jactation
1: (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness [syn: {jactitation}]
jactitate
1: move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" [syn: {convulse}, {thresh}, {thresh about}, {thrash}, {thrash about}, {slash}, {toss}]
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jactitation
1: speaking of yourself in superlatives [syn: {boast}, {boasting}, {self-praise}] 2: (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at...
Jaculus
1: jerboas [syn: {genus Jaculus}]
Jacuzzi
1: a large whirlpool bathtub with underwater jets that massage the body
jade
1: similar to the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green [syn: {jade-green}] n 1: a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whiti...
jade green
1: a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green [syn: {jade}]
jade vine
1: vigorous Philippine evergreen twining liana; grown for spectacular festoons of green flowers that resemble lobster claws [syn: {emerald creeper}, {Strongylodon macrobotrys}]
jade-green
1: similar to the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green [syn: {jade}]
jaded
1: exhausted; "my father's words had left me jaded and depressed"- William Styron [syn: {wearied}] 2: dulled by surfeit; "the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes"
jadeite
1: a hard green mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade; found principally in Burma
jadestone
1: a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite [syn: {jade}]
jaeger
1: rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey
Jafar
1: Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends [syn: {Jaffar}, {Jaffar Umar Thalib}, {Jafar Umar Thalib}]
Jafar Umar Thalib
1: Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends [syn: {Jaffar}, {Jafar}, {Jaffar Umar Thalib}]
Jaffa
1: a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950 [syn: {Joppa}, {Yafo}]
Jaffar
1: Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends [syn: {Jafar}, {Jaffar Umar Thalib}, {Jafar Umar Thalib}]
Jaffar Umar Thalib
1: Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends [syn: {Jaffar}, {Jafar}, {Jafar Umar Thalib}]
Jafnea semitosta
1: the fruiting bodies of this discomycete have a firm texture and long retain their cup shape; the pale brown interior blends with the color of dead leaves
jag
1: a sharp projection on an edge or surface; "he clutched a jag of the rock" 2: a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing 3: a flap along ...
Jagannath
1: an avatar of Vishnu [syn: {Jagannatha}, {Jagganath}, {Juggernaut}]
Jagannatha
1: an avatar of Vishnu [syn: {Jagannath}, {Jagganath}, {Juggernaut}]
Jagatai
1: a Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan) [syn: {Chagatai}, {Jaghatai}, {Eastern Turki}]
Jagganath
1: an avatar of Vishnu [syn: {Jagannath}, {Jagannatha}, {Juggernaut}]
jaggary
1: unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap [syn: {jaggery}, {jagghery}]
jaggedly
1: with a ragged and uneven appearance; "a long beard, raggedly cut" [syn: {raggedly}]
jaggedness
1: something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface
Jagger
1: English rock star (born in 1943) [syn: {Mick Jagger}, {Michael Philip Jagger}]
jaggery
1: unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap [syn: {jagghery}, {jaggary}]
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