A Daurian jackdaw, a closely related Asian bird (Coloeus dauuricus).
A European bird (Coloeus monedula) of the crow family, often nesting in church towers and ruins.
jackdaws
jackdaws
noun
plural of jackdaw
jacketwise
jacketwise
adv
In the manner of a jacket.
jacksaw
jacksaw
noun
A bird, the merganser.
jackscrew
jackscrew
noun
A jack (mechanical lifting device) which is operated by turning a leadscrew.
A leadscrew; a screw used to translate rotational into linear motion.
jackscrews
jackscrews
noun
plural of jackscrew
jacksontown
jackstraw
jackstraw
adj
(obsolete, of a person) Of no substance or worth.
Resembling a bundle of jackstraws that has been strewn on a surface.
noun
(dated) An insignificant person.
(usually plural) One of the pieces used for the game called jackstraws or pick-up sticks.
jackstraws
jackstraws
noun
plural of jackstraw
jackweed
jackwood
jackwood
noun
Cryptocarya glaucescens, a rainforest tree of eastern Australia whose bark is dark brown or reddish-brown and often scaly.
jawbreak
jawbreaker
jawbreaker
noun
(boxing, slang) A hard blow to the side of the face.
A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.
A long, hard-to-pronounce word.
jawbreakers
jawbreakers
noun
plural of jawbreaker
jawbreaking
jawbreaking
adj
Very difficult to pronounce.
jawbreakingly
jawbreakingly
adv
In a way that is very difficult to say or pronounce.
jawlensky
jawlike
jawlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a jaw.
jaworski
jayhawk
jayhawk
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To steal.
jayhawker
jayhawker
noun
(historical) An abolitionist raider in the Kansas–Missouri border skirmishes during the American Civil War.
Any robber or bandit.
jaywalk
jaywalk
verb
(chiefly Canada, US, law) To behave as a jaywalker; to violate pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or to walk in the part of the street intended for vehicles rather than on the sidewalk.
jaywalked
jaywalked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of jaywalk
jaywalker
jaywalker
noun
A person who violates pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or who walks on the part of the street intended for vehicles instead of the part designated for pedestrians.
jaywalkers
jaywalkers
noun
plural of jaywalker
jaywalking
jaywalking
noun
gerund of jaywalk.
verb
present participle of jaywalk
jaywalks
jaywalks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaywalk
jeewhillikens
jenkintown
jerkwater
jerkwater
adj
(US, colloquial, derogatory) Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, and backward.
noun
(US, historical) A train on a branch line.
A jerkwater town.
jewellike
jewellike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a jewel.
jewlike
jewlike
Adjective
Resembling a Jew or some aspect of one, especially the stereotype of a profiteering miser.
jinniwink
jinniwink
noun
A kind of derrick.
jinnywink
jinrickshaw
jogglework
joukerypawkery
journeywork
journeywork
noun
(obsolete) Work done by the day.
Work done by a journeyman at his trade.
journeyworker
journeyworker
noun
A journeyman (tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman).
journeyworks
kabbeljaws
kajawah
kajawah
noun
A sort of covered basket used as a pannier or saddle on the back of a camel.
kujawiak
kwajalein
kwajalein
Proper noun
Kwajalein atoll.
Kwajalein island, Kwajalein atoll.
kwangju
kwartje
lockjaw
lockjaw
noun
(pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria. It causes muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.
lockjaws
lockjaws
noun
plural of lockjaw
rajewski
rijswijk
stickjaw
stickjaw
noun
Food that is difficult to chew or swallow, such as toffee or pudding.