Elementary Vocabulary
36,007 words and 29 expressions at the elementary level.
The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.
Initialism of Jammu and Kashmir, a union territory in northern India.
plural of J
plural of j*b
A programming language developed by Microsoft that is a nonstandard variant of Java.
A short-term visa granted to scholars, professors, and visitors who participate in cultural exchange programs.
plural of J-1
Alternative form of J6.
Alternative form of J/O.
third-person singular simple present indicative of J-O
Alternative form of J, abbreviation of judge or justice.
Alternative form of JC.
Initialism of Juris Doctor.
junior-grade
Alternative form of J-Lo.
Abbreviation of Justice of the Peace, usually used after the name of a person who holds this office.
Abbreviation of jacking off or jerking off.
third-person singular simple present indicative of J/O
Initialism of jump seat.
A haplogroup often associated with inhabitants of the Arabian Plate
Abbreviation of JavaEE.
Old abbreviation for JavaME.
Initialism of Java 2 Runtime Environment.
Old abbreviation for JavaSE.
Abbreviation of January 6.
Abbreviation of Japan: a country in East Asia (NATO country code).
Abbreviation of Japanese.
A male given name from Dutch
A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
A type of Spanish dance in a three-in-a-measure rhythm.
plural of jab
Initialism of Joint Analysis Center.
A city in Huesca, Spain.
A twentieth century diminutive of the male given name Jason.
A surname from Polish.
A female given name.
A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
A portable percussive power tool that combines a hammer and chisel used to drill or break hard matter, for instance rock or concrete.
A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
Any of several large North American hares of the genus Lepus.
A surname.
Java Application Descriptor
A female given name, a 2000s variant of Jade.
Pickled fish.
plural of JAD
Alternative form of jadoo.
Resembling or characteristic of a jade (a horse too old to be put to work).
A male given name.
A surname.
A female given name from Hebrew.
A municipality of Luzon, Philippines; named for the city of Jaén, Spain.
A sharp projection.
To keep watch, to watch over.
Alternative form of jag (a load of hay or wood)
Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.
A surname.
A surname from Czech.
plural of Jag
A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.
A shortened form of the Tetragrammaton.
A surname from German.
A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
An escape from prison.
A building containing a prison.
Of or pertaining to Jainism.
A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
initialism of Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (“Islamic Religious Department of Selangor, a branch of the government organisation JAKIM”)
Alternative form of jack (“the tree Mangifera caesia”).
To play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to that person.
Initialism of Janus kinase inhibitor.
An African grey parrot, Psittacus erithacus, commonly kept as a cage bird.
plural of jak
Abbreviation of Jalisco: a state of Mexico.
A stone screen, perforated or latticed, usually with a geometrical ornamental pattern, used in Indian and Islamic architecture as a climate-controlling element.
A kind of frock for children.
Abbreviation of James.
Initialism of Journal of the American Medical Association.
Any of the component letters of the Korean hangul alphabet.
simple past and past participle of jump
plural of jam
Archaic form of Jamie (“male name”).
Abbreviation of January.
Abbreviation of January.
A female given name from Czech.
A female given name from French, the standard feminine form of John since the 17th century.
A surname.
To cause (something) to make a rattling metallic sound.
The father of the jinn preceding humanity.
Obsolete form of jaunt.
A surname from German.
Initialism of Jewish Autonomous Oblast: A federal subject, an autonomous oblast in the Far East of Russia.
Alternative form of jow (“a pre-metric unit of length in India”).
plural of Jao
A Japanese person.
Abbreviation of Japan.
A program written in Perl that outputs the text Just another Perl hacker, usually programmed in an obfuscated manner so that the output is not obvious until it is run.
Abbreviation of Japan.
plural of Jap
Initialism of job analysis questionnaire.
plural of JAQ
To preserve (food) in a jar.
A surname from Spanish
Not genuine; fake
Alternative form of zari.
A seal (stamp or impression of a stamp).
A medieval Scandinavian nobleman, especially in Norway and Denmark.
Alternative form of charm (“sound of birds”).
A surname.
The act of knocking one's pace egg (“a coloured hard-boiled egg traditionally made at Easter”) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact, an Easter custom in many countries.
Obsolete spelling of jar.
plural of jar
Synonym of lawn dart.
A surname.
plural of ja
Alternative spelling of Jas: abbreviation of James.
A diminutive of the male given name Jason.
Initialism of junior assistant scoutmaster.
A surname.
Obsolete form of jasper.
A trick-taking card game popular in Switzerland and neighboring areas of Germany and Austria.
A woman's hairpiece.
Dated form of jazz (musical style).
A member of an Indo-European ethnic group of people native to Northern India and Pakistan (including large populations living in the EU, US, Canada, Australia and UK), that have attributes of an ethnic group, tribe and a people.
A clan, tribe, or community in India.
An auxiliary jet engine in a detachable unit that provides extra power for the takeoff of an aircraft
plural of jat
Alternate form of Jat, primarily used by Eastern Punjabi groups, particularly Sikhs.
Alternative form of jamb.
Synonym of litter, particularly those of the upper middle class in 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century Kolkata.
A splash.
Clipping of javelin.
Abbreviation of Javanese.
A wave of water and ice released downstream when a fluvial ice jam breaks up catastrophically.
To pour or throw out.
A Czech motorcycle manufacturer.
To talk persistently in an attempt to persuade somebody to cooperate.
The Arabic alphabet or writing system used for Malay or related languages.
To talk noisily, prate loudly.
Obsolete form of yawn.
plural of jaw
Relating to the jaws.
Initialism of Jakarta XML.
Acronym of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Initialism of Jakarta XML Binding.
A diminutive of the male given name Jackson of modern usage.
moon
Any of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy.
A female given name from Sanskrit.
A unisex given name.
A surname.
plural of jay
Dated spelling of jazz (“musical style”).
A female given name.
Alternative form of jasy.
A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.
A city in Andalusia, Spain.
Initialism of jailbait.
Initialism of Joint Biosecurity Centre.
Initialism of James Bowie High School.
Initialism of Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group, a group of experts working on standards for bi-level (usually black and white) image coding.
Acronym of Just a Bunch of Disks, a collection of hard disks that are not configured according to RAID.
Abbreviation of Java Business Process Model.
plural of jb
Initialism of Jervis Bay Territory: An internal territory of Australia located on the south coast of New South Wales.
Just be white (used sardonically to reflect the belief that white men are greatly advantaged over other men at attracting women)
Initialism of Judeo-Christian.
Initialism of Java Cryptography Architecture.
Initialism of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals.
An earthmoving machine made by the J. C. Bamford (JCB) company.
plural of JCB
Initialism of Jewish Community Center.
plural of JCC
Initialism of Japan Coast Guard.
Initialism of Judicial Conduct Investigations Office.
Initialism of Junior Classical League.
Initialism of James Clerk Maxwell Telescope.
Initialism of Java Community Process.
Initialism of Joint Council for Qualifications.
Initialism of junior common room (in British universities).
plural of JCR
Initialism of Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Initialism of Joint Functional Component Command, an organisation that controls space debris.
Abbreviation of junction.
Abbreviation of junction.
Abbreviation of junction.
Initialism of Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
Initialism of Janata Dal (former Indian political party)
Acronym of Joint Direct Attack Munition.
Initialism of Joint Deployable Analysis Team.
Initialism of Java Database Connectivity.
Initialism of Jamaica Defence Force.
Abbreviation of joined from.
Abbreviation of Judges.
Initialism of Java Debugger Interface.
Initialism of Java Development Kit.
plural of JDK
Initialism of Jewish Defense League.
strangeness, oddity, weirdness
Initialism of Japanese domestic market (referring to parts available only in Japan).
Initialism of Julian Day Number.
Initialism of Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi).
plural of JD
A title for a lay leader who has not been ordained as a pastor, particularly a youth group leader.
Initialism of Julian date and time.
Initialism of Java Debug Wire Protocol.
Initialism of Jōmon Era.
A surname.
Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity.
A state of being jealous; a jealous attitude.
Denim.
A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
jears
Obsolete form of jet.
A diminutive of the male given name Jebediah.
A diminutive of the male given name Jedidiah.
One of a fictional order of beings from the Star Wars universe who are gifted with heightened awareness of the Force.
Alternative spelling of gee.
simple past and past participle of jee
Alternative form of jheel (“wetland area in India”).
The letter ج in the Arabic script.
A vehicle (of a particular brand) suitable for rough terrain.
third-person singular simple present indicative of jee
Alternative spelling of geez.
Initialism of Joint Expeditionary Force.
A diminutive of the male given names Jeffrey, Jeffery, Jefferey, Jeffry, or Jefferson.
Alternative form of jig.
plural of jeg
A king of Israel in the 9th century B.C.
A locality in the Yass Valley council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
A South American (Amazonian) erythrinid fish, Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus (formerly sometimes Erythrinus unitaeniatus).
A surname.
A member of the hereditary caste of griots among the Mandé peoples, whose social roles include transmitting their people's oral traditions and playing traditional music (jeliya).
Misspelling of jelq.
Synonym of jelly or gel.
converted into jelly; congealed
Alternative spelling of jelly bean.
An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.
A penis enlargement technique in which the thumb and index finger are wrapped around the penis and repeatedly drawn away from the body in order to force blood into the glans and encourage vascularity.
A diminutive of the male given names James, Jeremy, or Jeremiah.
A female given name.
An independent city in Thuringia, Germany.
A surname.
A diminutive of the female given name Jennifer.
A surname.
A male given name.
A fried, filled pancake-like food eaten in Korea
Danger of failure, harm, or loss.
Abbreviation of just enough operating system: one customised to the needs of a specific application, with other features excluded.
Initialism of JDK Enhancement Proposal.
A diminutive of the male given name Jephrey, variant of Jeff
plural of JEP
Clipping of jerfalcon.
Abbreviation of Jeremiah.
A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine or Jerilyn, also used as a formal given name.
A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
Characterized by physical jerking, or by sudden and uneven progress.
plural of jer
Any of several species of bird, endemic to Madagascar, in the genera Neomixis and Hartertula.
Pronunciation spelling of just, representing African-American Vernacular English
Pronunciation spelling of just, representing African-American Vernacular English.
A Korean memorial ceremony for the ancestors of the participants.
A comune in Ancona province, Marche region, Italy.
A diminutive of the male given name Jesse.
Jesus
A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
A leap from one foot to the other in which one leg appears to be "thrown" in the direction of the movement.
The third month of the Punjabi calendar and the Nanakshahi calendar.
plural of jet
A male given name.
Alternative form of jete.
A locality in Gingelom municipality, Limburg province, Belgium.
A Balkan Egyptian.
A surname.
To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.
Alternative spelling of jewelled.
US standard spelling of jewellery.
plural of Jew
A surname.
A diminutive of the male given name Jeremy.
Obsolete form of Ezo
Initialism of Java Foundation Classes.
Initialism of junction field effect transistor.
Initialism of Jamaica Football Federation.
Acronym of JPEG File Interchange Format.
Initialism of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th US president (served 1961–1963).
third-person singular simple present indicative of JFK
Initialism of Journal of the Formosan Medical Association (a Taiwanese journal).
Initialism of Journaled File System.
Joint Federal Travel Regulation
Initialism of just for your information.
Alternative form of j.g..
Initialism of Jupiter gravity assist.
plural of JGA
Initialism of Japanese government bond.
plural of JGB
plural of JG
Initialism of juvenile home.
A surname.
plural of Jha
Alternative form of jhow (“kind of tamarisk”).
Alternative form of jheel.
Alternative spelling of jinn.
Alternative form of jit (“an inexperienced, foolhardy young man”)
Abbreviation of John.
Alternative form of Zhou.
A grassy tamarisk shrub, of species Tamarix indica, common in river-marshes.
Abbreviation of jacketed hollow point.
plural of JHP
plural of JH
Initialism of Japanese Historical Text Initiative.
Alternative form of jhool.
A tribal form of cultivation in India, where a chosen piece of land is cleared and used to grow crops until its fertility is depleted.
A diminutive of the male given name Junior
Alternative form of YHWH.
Alternative form of YHWH.
Initialism of John Innes, a generic range of horticultural composts.
A surname.
A surname.
A currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan.
plural of Jia
Archaic form of jib.
A horse that jibs, i.e. refuses, stops short.
plural of jib
Initialism of just in case.
Initialism of Japan International Cooperation Agency.
To avoid by a sudden jerk of the body, duck, dodge; to elude, evade.
An ancient tribe of northern China, who were regarded as one of the Five Barbarians by the Han people.
A river in Hunedoara, Romania.
Alternative form of jiff.
plural of JIF
A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
A relatively weak shaking movement.
A draw in the game of go.
plural of jig
A power saw with fine teeth and a narrow blade which can cut curves in wood or metal.
An urban township in Nantou County, Taiwan.
brother-in-law
A portable stove of the type common in Africa.
A district of Luoyang, Henan, China.
A female given name from Latin.
A river in Gorj, Romania.
A diminutive of the male given name James.
A rare spelling variant of Jimmy, diminutive of the male given name James.
neat; trim; delicate
plural of Jim
Alternative spelling of jinn.
An Afroasiatic language spoken in Cameroon.
A district of Haryana, India.
Pronunciation spelling of join.
An ethnic Vietnamese, in reference to those whose lands are in China.
A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
A quick evasive turn.
A human-like spiritual or immaterial being, as opposed to al-ins (people), often invisible but able to manifest in form and also inhabit people or animals; origin of the genie of Western literature, film etc.
Initialism of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
plural of jin
A hex; an evil spell.
Alternative form of gyp.
Initialism of Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
Any of various agricultural pest rodents of genus Meriones or rodents of certain species in the genera Sekeetamys, Brachiones, and sometimes Pachyuromys.
A river in Assam, India.
A male given name from Japanese.
Alternative form of yirra.
Initialism of Japanese Industrial Standards.
Alternative spelling of gist.
Initialism of just-in-time.
a Bantu language of Tanzania
Alternative form of jit (“Zimbabwean dance music”).
A medieval steward of territory in Japan, especially in the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates.
third-person singular simple present indicative of jit
To dance the jitterbug.
nervy, jumpy, on edge
Any Chinese alcoholic beverage
All living beings; the essence or soul of such beings.
Characteristic of jive music.
A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.
A township in Hotan City, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
The physical and behavioural characteristics of a bird that enable it to be immediately recognised by an experienced birder as a certain type of bird, especially to family or genus level.
Initialism of Josephson junction.
Alternative form of JJ, abbreviation of judges or justices; plural of J.
Korean dishes made by steaming or boiling marinated meat or fish
Initialism of Japanese jujitsu.
plural of JJ
Initialism of Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (a 1992 Hindi film).
Abbreviation of the Special Capital Region of Jakarta: a province of Indonesia.
Initialism of J. K. Rowling (born 1965), British author.
Abbreviation of jacket.
plural of jkt
Abbreviation of July.
Alternative form of Jl (Abbreviation of July).
"cossack—iron cross—cossack" – an acrobatic maneuver in moguls skiing, whereby taking a ski jump off a kicker, the skier performs a sequence of three acrobatic maneuvers, starting with a cossack, followed by an iron cross, and ending with a cossack, before landing on course again.
plural of JLB
Initialism of Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome
Alternative form of J-Lo.
Initialism of Japanese-language proficiency test.
Initialism of Java Language Specification.
Initialism of Japan Meteorological Agency, the national weather service agency of Japan.
Initialism of Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasia.
Initialism of junior mixed infant (“designating a school that teaches both infant and junior age ranges”).
Initialism of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
Initialism of Java Modeling Language.
Initialism of Java memory model.
The station code of Jamner railway station in India.
An unconditional jump, i.e., a transfer of the flow of program execution to a different point in the instruction stream without any conditions attached.
plural of JMP
Initialism of Juberg-Marsidi syndrome
Initialism of John Muir Trail.
Initialism of James Madison University.
Initialism of Java Management Extensions.
plural of JMX
Abbreviation of June.
Initialism of Java Native Access, an API that provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries without using the Java Native Interface.
Abbreviation of Jonathan.
Abbreviation of junction.
Just-noticeable difference, the amount by which something must be changed in order for it to be detectable at least 50% of the time.
Initialism of Java Naming and Directory Interface.
plural of JND
Initialism of Java Native Interface.
plural of JNI
Abbreviation of journal.
Initialism of Java Network Launching Protocol.
plural of jnl
Abbreviation of John.
A decision by a judge that sets aside a jury's earlier verdict in the same case based on a finding that the jury's determination was incorrect as a matter of law.
Abbreviation of junior.
Abbreviation of jump not scored (a score on a scoresheet, for an insufficient/incomplete judged jump).
Abbreviation of joint.
Initialism of Jawaharlal Nehru University, a university in Delhi, India.
Darling, sweetheart.
Abbreviation of John.
Abbreviation of jail officer, grade one (“prison guard”) The lowest grade of jail officers, the entry level jail officer.
The nephew of King David, and son of Zeruiah
Alternative form of jone.
A male given name from Portuguese.
To peck (of a bird); (more generally) to poke or prod (at, into).
male group leader in orientation camps
To harangue, to rebuke in a long-winded or drawn-out way.
plural of job
A diminutive of the male given name Joseph.
Food; meals.
To ride (a horse) in a race.
Alternative spelling of yodh.
Alternative spelling of yodh.
Alternative form of Jody in its female senses.
A Japanese martial art using a short staff, originally as a defence against swords.
plural of jod
A female given name from Hebrew.
A diminutive of the male given names Joseph, Josiah, Joel, or Josias.
Abbreviation of Joel.
Synonym of blue snakeweed.
A male given name from Hebrew.
A male given name.
plural of joe
A kind of clown.
An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
Alternative form of yoga (tree, Elaeocarpus joga)
A person who jogs (as exercise).
Archaic form of yogi.
plural of jog
Diminutive of Johannes, notably used in reference to
Abbreviation of John (Gospel of John).
A suspension of salvarsan in iodipin and anhydrous lanolin.
A woolen robe worn by Arabs.
plural of Joh
Initialism of jerk-off instructions: Spoken, written, or recorded directions to masturbate one's penis.
A diminutive of the male given name Joseph.
Alternative form of yoik (“traditional Sami song”).
To connect or combine into one; to put together.
Alternative letter-case form of joj.
A seasoned, battered and fried potato wedge.
An amusing story.
A fictional villain of DC Comics, noted for his insanity and cunning, who either wears clown makeup or is disfigured to appear as such, and who is archenemy of Batman.
A person who tells jokes; a joker.
Alternative spelling of joky.
in the nature of a joke; jocular
A barren limestone plateau on the southern Arabian peninsula.
An ethnic group found in Senegal (where they predominate in the region of Casamance), the Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.
Obsolete spelling of jowl.
To bump, knock; push.
The quality of being jolly; jollity.
An island of the Philippines.
plural of jol
A surname from French.
female group leader in orientation camps
Alternative form of mojo.
A male given name from Hebrew, variant of John.
Abbreviation of Jonah.
Obsolete form of Joan.
A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.
A female given name.
plural of Jon
A surname from Korean.
Alternative spelling of zhoosh.
To dodge; to move quickly to avoid something or to hide; to dart away.
Alternative form of jhool.
Alternative form of jhum.
A surname from Dutch.
plural of Joo
A surname.
plural of JOP
The station code of Jordan in Hong Kong.