Skip to main content
Search Section
Skip alphabetical navigation menu.

Browse Alphabetically

  • English Word Jealousness Definition State or quality of being jealous.
  • English Word Jealousy Definition The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover.
  • English Word Jeames Definition A footman; a flunky.
  • English Word Jean Definition A twilled cotton cloth.
  • English Word Jears Definition See 1st Jeer (b).
  • English Word Jeat Definition See Jet.
  • English Word Jedding ax Definition A stone mason's tool, having a flat face and a pointed part.
  • English Word Jee Definition See Gee.
  • English Word Jeel Definition A morass; a shallow lake.
  • English Word Jeer Definition A gear; a tackle.
  • English Word Jeer Definition An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.
  • English Word Jeer Definition To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker.
  • English Word Jeer Definition To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.
  • English Word Jeer Definition A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.
  • English Word Jeered Definition of Jeer
  • English Word Jeerer Definition A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.
  • English Word Jeering Definition of Jeer
  • English Word Jeering Definition Mocking; scoffing.
  • English Word Jeering Definition A mocking utterance.
  • English Word Jeers Definition See 1st Jeer (b).
  • English Word Jeffersonia Definition An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.
  • English Word Jeffersonian Definition Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines.
  • English Word Jeffersonite Definition A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
  • English Word Jeg Definition See Jig, 6.
  • English Word Jehovah Definition A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the "ineffable name" of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews.
  • English Word Jehovist Definition One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; -- opposed to adonist.
  • English Word Jehovist Definition The writer of the passages of the Old Testament, especially those of the Pentateuch, in which the Supreme Being is styled Jehovah. See Elohist.
  • English Word Jehovistic Definition Relating to, or containing, Jehovah, as a name of God; -- said of certain parts of the Old Testament, especially of the Pentateuch, in which Jehovah appears as the name of the Deity. See Elohistic.
  • English Word Jehu Definition A coachman; a driver; especially, one who drives furiously.
  • English Word Jejunal Definition Pertaining to the jejunum.