| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| jubilar | adjective | Pertaining to, or having the character of, a jubilee. |
| jubilee | noun | Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners., The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions., A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist., A season of general joy., A state of joy or exultation. |
| judaism | noun | The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses., Conformity to the Jewish rites and ceremonies. |
| judaist | noun | One who believes and practices Judaism. |
| judaize | verb i. | To conform to the doctrines, observances, or methods of the Jews; to inculcate or impose Judaism., To impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism. |
| juddock | noun | See Jacksnipe. |
| judging | present participle & vb. noun | of Judge |
| jugging | present participle & vb. noun | of Jug |
| jugated | adjective | Coupled together. |
| juggled | imp. & past participle | of Juggle |
| juggler | noun | One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer., A deceiver; a cheat. |
| juglans | noun | A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut. |
| juglone | noun | A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted from green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia); — called also nucin. |
| jugular | adjective | Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein., Of or pertaining to the jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen., Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; — said of certain fishes., One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; — called also the jugular vein., Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares). |
| jugulum | noun | The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast. |
| jumbled | imp. & past participle | of Jumble |
| jumbler | noun | One who confuses things. |
| jumping | present participle & vb. noun | of Jump, of Jump, to leap. |
| juncate | noun | See Junket. |
| juncite | noun | A fossil rush. |
| juncous | adjective | Full of rushes: resembling rushes; juncaceous. |
| juniper | noun | Any evergreen shrub or tree, of the genus Juniperus and order Coniferae. |
| jupiter | noun | The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus., One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth’s mean distance being taken as unity. |
| juridic | adjective | Alt. of Juridical |
| jurymen | plural | of Juryman |
| juryman | noun | One who is impaneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror. |
| justice | adjective | The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness., Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the justice of a description or of a judgment; historical justice., The rendering to every one his due or right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one’s conduct or motives., Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim., A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice., To administer justice to. |
| justico | noun | Alt. of Justicoat |
| justify | adjective | To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty., To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to absolve; to exonerate; to clear., To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve., To prove; to ratify; to confirm., To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4., To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly., To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one’s self as bail or surety. |
| justled | imp. & past participle | of Justle |
| jutting | present participle & vb. noun | of Jut, Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. |
| juvenal | noun | A youth. |
| juwansa | noun | The camel’s thorn. See under Camel. |