A skylight or other device whose purpose is to direct light into a room.
abatjours
abatjours
noun
plural of abatjour
abjudicator
abjuration
abjuration
noun
A repudiation on oath of a religious or political principle.
A solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy.
The act of abjuring.
abjurations
abjurations
noun
plural of abjuration
abjuratory
abjuratory
adj
Involving abjuration.
abjurement
abjurement
noun
(rare) renunciation
adjournment
adjournment
noun
(rhetoric) Ampliatio.
The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
adjournments
adjournments
noun
plural of adjournment
adjudicator
adjudicator
noun
One who adjudicates.
adjudicators
adjudicators
noun
plural of adjudicator
adjudicatory
adjudicatory
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjudication.
adjudicature
adjudicature
noun
An act of adjudication; a judgment.
adjuration
adjuration
noun
A grave warning.
A solemn oath.
adjurations
adjurations
noun
plural of adjuration
adjuratory
adjuratory
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjuration.
adjuster
adjuster
noun
One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).
adjusters
adjusters
noun
plural of adjuster
adjustor
adjustor
noun
Alternative form of adjuster
adjustores
adjustoring
adjustors
adjustors
noun
plural of adjustor
adjutator
adjutator
noun
(archaic) Alternative spelling of agitator
adjutor
adjutor
noun
An adjutant; a helper or assistant;
adjutorious
adjutory
adjutory
adj
(obsolete) Serving to help or assist.
adjutrice
adjutrice
noun
Alternative form of adjutrix (“female adjutor”)
adjutrix
adjutrix
noun
A female adjutor.
ajatasatru
antejentacular
antejentacular
adj
(rare, formal) Occurring before breakfast.
antejudiciary
antejuramentum
autojigger
autojuggernaut
bijouterie
bijouterie
noun
Small articles of jewellery, trinkets, etc.
bijouteries
bijouteries
noun
plural of bijouterie
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
butterjags
circumadjacent
circumadjacent
adj
Lying immediately around
circumjacent
circumjacent
adj
(archaic, literary) Lying or located in the area around something.
coadjudicator
coadjutator
coadjutor
coadjutor
noun
(ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.
An assistant or helper.
coadjutors
coadjutors
noun
plural of coadjutor
coadjutorship
coadjutorship
noun
The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance.
coadjutress
coadjutress
noun
A female coadjutor or assistant.
coadjutrice
coadjutrices
coadjutrix
coadjutrix
noun
A female coadjutor
An assistant (and eventual successor) to an abbess
cojusticiar
conjecturable
conjecturable
adj
Able to be conjectured upon.
conjecturableness
conjecturably
conjecturably
adv
In a conjecturable manner
conjectural
conjectural
adj
In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.
noun
Something that is conjectural; a conjecture.
conjecturalist
conjecturalist
noun
One who forms conjectures.
conjecturality
conjecturality
noun
The property of being conjectural.
conjecturally
conjecturally
adv
In a conjectural manner.
conjecture
conjecture
noun
(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
(formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
(mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
(obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
verb
(formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.
(transitive) To infer on slight evidence; to guess at.
conjectured
conjectured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conjecture
conjecturer
conjecturer
noun
a person who conjectures
conjecturers
conjecturers
noun
plural of conjecturer
conjectures
conjectures
noun
plural of conjecture
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conjecture
conjecturing
conjecturing
noun
The forming of conjectures.
verb
present participle of conjecture
conjugator
conjugator
noun
An automated process or written aid for giving the conjugation table of verbs.
conjugators
conjugators
noun
plural of conjugator
conjunctur
conjunctural
conjunctural
adj
Relating to, or caused by conjunctures
conjuncture
conjuncture
noun
A combination of events or circumstances; a conjunction; a union.
A set of circumstances causing a crisis; a juncture.
conjunctures
conjunctures
noun
plural of conjuncture
conjuration
conjuration
noun
(obsolete) A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy.
(obsolete) The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner, or binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration.
A magic trick.
Conjuring, legerdemain or magic.
conjurations
conjurations
noun
plural of conjuration
conjurator
conjurator
noun
(obsolete, law) A person who swears an oath along with others
conjurement
conjurement
noun
(obsolete) Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty.
counterjudging
counterjumper
counterjumper
noun
(slang, derogatory, dated) A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
counterobjection
counterobjection
noun
A legal objection raised in response to an earlier objection.
counterproject
counterproject
noun
A project proposed in opposition to another.
countersubject
countersubject
noun
(music) The secondary melody in contrapuntal music
dejecture
dejecture
noun
That which is voided; excrement.
disjointure
disjointure
noun
An instance or state of being disjoint; separation.
disjunctor
disjunctor
noun
(biology) A small, temporary body between the conidia of some fungi.
A kind of electrical circuit breaker.
disjuncture
disjuncture
noun
A lack of union, or lack of coordination, or separation.
disjunctures
disjunctures
noun
plural of disjuncture
ejaculator
ejaculator
noun
A device that stimulates the sex organs of a male animal with electric impulses in order to extract semen from an animal.
A person or thing that ejaculates.
ejaculators
ejaculators
noun
plural of ejaculator
ejaculatory
ejaculatory
adj
Of or pertaining to ejaculation.
Of speech, exclamatory.
ejurate
ejuration
engjateigur
extrajudicial
extrajudicial
adj
(law) Out of or beyond the power or authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction.
(law, of a punishment) Carried out without legal authority.
extrajudicially
extrajudicially
adv
Outside of the legal system.
forejudgment
forejudgment
noun
(obsolete) prejudgment
forjudgment
gastrojejunal
gastrojejunal
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the stomach and the jejunum
gastrojejunostomies
gastrojejunostomies
noun
plural of gastrojejunostomy
gastrojejunostomy
gastrojejunostomy
noun
(surgery) A form of anastomosis in which a connection is made between the stomach and the jejunum
guejarite
guejarite
noun
(mineralogy) chalcostibite
gujarat
gujarat
Proper noun
State in western India which has Gandhinagar as its capital.
gujarati
gujerat
gujrati
imprejudicate
imprejudicate
adj
(obsolete) Without prejudice; impartial.
interjaculate
interjaculate
verb
(transitive) To ejaculate (a remark, etc.) parenthetically.
interjaculateded
interjaculating
interjaculating
verb
present participle of interjaculate
interjaculatory
interjaculatory
adj
interjaculating
interjealousy
interjealousy
noun
Jealousy between multiple parties.
interjectural
interjectural
adj
Interjectional.
interjudgment
interjugal
interjugular
interjunction
interjunction
noun
A mutual joining.
intersubjective
intersubjective
adj
Accessible to or capable of being established for two or more subjects.
Involving or occurring between separate conscious minds.
intersubjectively
intersubjectively
adv
(philosophy) In an intersubjective way; between or among multiple subjects
intersubjectivity
intersubjectivity
noun
The state or condition of being intersubjective.
intrajugular
intrajugular
adj
(anatomy) Within the jugular.
jackfruit
jackfruit
noun
A tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the Moraceae family, which produces edible fruit.
The large fruit from this tree.
jacquemart
jactura
jacture
jaculator
jaculator
noun
(zoology) The archerfish.
One who throws or casts.
jaculatorial
jaculatory
jaculatory
adj
Darting or throwing out suddenly; also, suddenly thrown out; uttered in short sentences; ejaculatory.
jaguarete
jaguarete
noun
A black felid historically reported from Brazil and Guyana, of uncertain identification.
jakfruit
jarlathus
jarnut
jarnut
noun
An earthnut, Bunium bulbocastanum.
jaundiceroot
jauntier
jauntier
adj
comparative form of jaunty: more jaunty
jejunator
jentacular
jentacular
adj
(formal, chiefly archaic) Of or pertaining to breakfast; specifically, one taken early in the morning or immediately upon getting up.
jequerity
jequerity
noun
Alternative spelling of jequirity
jequirities
jequirity
jequirity
noun
Abrus precatorius, a legume native to Indonesia with long, pinnate-leafleted leaves, whose toxic seeds ("jequirity bean") may be used as beads or in percussion instruments.
jerrybuilt
jerrybuilt
adj
Shoddily built; ill-constructed.
jerusalemite
jerusalemite
Adjective
Of, from, or pertaining to Jerusalem.
Noun
A native or resident of Jerusalem.
A residual mineral of the sands of Jerusalem, as with Trinitite.
jesuitocracy
jesuitocracy
Noun
Rule by Jesuits.
jesuitries
jesuitry
jesuitry
Noun
Jesuitism; subtle argument.
jettatura
jettatura
noun
(archaic) The evil eye.
jettru
jimpricute
jitneur
jitneur
noun
A jitney driver.
jitterbug
jitterbug
noun
(colloquial) A nervous or jittery person.
(dance) An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps.
(jazz) A jazz musician or aficionado.
Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”)
verb
To dance the jitterbug.
jitterbugged
jitterbugged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug
jitterbugger
jitterbugger
noun
A person who dances the jitterbug.
jitterbugging
jitterbugging
verb
present participle of jitterbug
jitterbugs
jitterbugs
noun
plural of jitterbug
jocularities
jocularities
noun
plural of jocularity
jocularity
jocularity
noun
Joking, humorous remarks or behaviour.
joculator
joculator
noun
(obsolete) A jester; a joker.
joculatory
joculatory
adj
(obsolete) funny; witty
johnstrupite
johnstrupite
noun
(mineralogy) A particular titanium silicate mineral.
jointure
jointure
noun
(law) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after her husband's death, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower.
(obsolete) A joining; a joint.
verb
(transitive) To settle a jointure upon.
jointured
jointured
adj
(of a wife) Supplied with an estate through jointure.
(of an estate) Bequeathed to a wife through jointure.