JANE
First name JANE's origin is English. JANE means "feminine of john. jehovah has been gracious: has shown favor. variant of joan". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with JANE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of jane.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with JANE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming JANE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES JANE AS A WHOLE:
anjanella anjanette janea janeen janell janella janelle janessa janet janetta janette janey maryjane sarajane janee janeneNAMES RHYMING WITH JANE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ane) - Names That Ends with ane:
berhane gayane agurtzane mafuane allyriane abarrane tzigane kimane doane beltane bane konane duane pivane adriane aintzane alane ariane assane belakane christiane damiane darleane deane diane eliane gezane gloriane gorane ilane isane ivane jeane jehane jilliane joelliane jordane katriane kristiane levane liane liliane louisane luane mariane megane morgane nekane nimiane odiane oihane seyane tiane viviane zoelane aeccestane ahane ane beldane blane chane coltrane dane durane dwane farlane fontane haldane jermane kane keane lane leane macfarlane maclane mane rane roane shane sloane thane yardane zane fane roxane gaetane maitane aelfdane orane warrane delaneRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ne) - Names That Ends with ne:
ankine lucine yserone barkarne eguskine hanne jensine larine nielsineNAMES RHYMING WITH JANE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (jan) - Names That Begins with jan:
jan jana janae janah janai janais janan janaya janaye jancsi jani janiah janice janicia janie janiece janina janine janis janise janita janka jankia janko janna jannae janne jannes jannet janneth jannina jannis janos jans jansen jansje janson jantis jantje janus janyd janylRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ja) - Names That Begins with ja:
jaakkina jaana jaantje jaap jabari jabbar jabin jabir jabulela jacalyn jacan jace jacee jacelyn jacen jacenta jacey jaci jacinda jacint jacinta jacintha jacinthe jacinto jacira jack jackeline jacki jackie jackleen jacklynn jackson jacky jaclyn jacob jacoba jacobe jacobo jacolin jacot jacqualine jacque jacqueleen jacquelin jacqueline jacquelyn jacquelyne jacquelynne jacquenetta jacquenette jacques jacqui jacy jacynth jada jadalynn jadan jadarianNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH JANE:
First Names which starts with 'j' and ends with 'e':
jade jadee jae jaenette jahnisce jaicee jaide jaime jaimee jaimie jaine jaione jake jakobe jakobie jakome jamee jamie jamielee jamile jamilee jamille jaqueline jaquenette jarine jasmine jasmyne jasone jasontae jaxine jayce jaycee jaycie jayde jaydee jaye jaylene jayme jaymee jaymie jayne jaynie jayvee jazmaine jazmine jazzmine jeanae jeanee jeanelle jeanette jeanice jeanie jeanine jeanne jeannelle jeannette jeannie jeannine jenae jenalee jenarae jenavieve jenee jenelle jenene jenette jenevieve jenice jeniece jenine jenise jennae jennalee jennarae jennasee jennavieve jennelle jennie jennilee jennine jenny-lee jeraldine jeramie jerande jeremee jeremie jerianne jermaine jermayne jerome jerzie jessamine jesse jessee jessie jeyce jibade jilienne jillanne jillayneEnglish Words Rhyming JANE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES JANE AS A WHOLE:
jane | noun (n.) A coin of Genoa; any small coin. |
noun (n.) A kind of twilled cotton cloth. See Jean. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH JANE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ane) - English Words That Ends with ane:
aeroplane | noun (n.) A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it. |
noun (n.) A light rigid plane used in aerial navigation to oppose sudden upward or downward movement in the air, as in gliding machines; specif., such a plane slightly inclined and driven forward as a lifting device in some flying machines; hence, a flying machine using such a device. These machines are called monoplanes, biplanes, triplanes, or quadruplanes, according to the number of main supporting planes used in their constraction. Being heavier than air they depend for their levitation on motion imparted by one or more propellers actuated by a gasoline engine. They start from the ground by a run on small wheels or runners, and are guided by a steering apparatus consisting of horizontal and vertical movable planes. There are many varieties of form and construction, which in some cases are known by the names of their inventors. | |
() One unprovided with motive power. |
antemundane | adjective (a.) Being or occurring before the creation of the world. |
arcane | adjective (a.) Hidden; secret. |
avellane | adjective (a.) In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross. |
bane | noun (n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. |
noun (n.) Destruction; death. | |
noun (n.) Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. | |
noun (n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot. | |
verb (v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin. |
beltane | noun (n.) The first day of May (Old Style). |
noun (n.) A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland. |
bugbane | noun (n.) A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species. |
butane | noun (n.) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series. |
biplane | noun (n.) An aeroplane with two main supporting surfaces one above the other. |
adjective (a.) Having, or consisting of, two superposed planes, aerocurves, or the like; of or pertaining to a biplane; as, a biplane rudder. |
cane | noun (n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. |
noun (n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane. | |
noun (n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. | |
noun (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane. | |
noun (n.) A lance or dart made of cane. | |
noun (n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna. | |
verb (v. t.) To beat with a cane. | |
verb (v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs. |
capellane | noun (n.) The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. |
chicane | noun (n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. |
noun (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. | |
noun (n.) In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors. |
chlormethane | noun (n.) A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride. |
chlorophane | noun (n.) A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light. |
noun (n.) The yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina. See Chromophane. |
chromophane | noun (n.) A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina. |
chrysophane | noun (n.) A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition. |
cismontane | adjective (a.) On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane. |
cispadane | adjective (a.) On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side. |
counterpane | noun (n.) A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures. |
noun (n.) A duplicate part or copy of an indenture, deed, etc., corresponding with the original; -- now called counterpart. |
cowbane | noun (n.) A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock. |
crane | noun (n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. |
noun (n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck. | |
noun (n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick. | |
noun (n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire. | |
noun (n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask. | |
noun (n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2. | |
noun (n.) Any arm which swings about a vertical axis at one end, used for supporting a suspended weight. | |
noun (n.) The American blue heron (Ardea herodias). | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up. | |
verb (v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully. | |
verb (v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap. |
crepane | noun (n.) An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer. |
cymophane | noun (n.) See Chrysoberyl. |
dane | noun (n.) A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark. |
decane | noun (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications. |
diaphane | noun (n.) A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work. |
dodecane | noun (n.) Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series. |
dogbane | noun (n.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs. |
dogvane | noun (n.) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind. |
doorplane | noun (n.) A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant. |
douane | noun (n.) A customhouse. |
eikosane | noun (n.) A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum. |
elecampane | noun (n.) A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic. |
noun (n.) A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant. |
endecane | noun (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum. |
ethane | noun (n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl. |
extramundane | adjective (a.) Beyond the material world. |
fane | noun (n.) A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church. |
noun (n.) A weathercock. |
filigrane | noun (n.) Filigree. |
fleabane | noun (n.) One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria. |
flybane | noun (n.) A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric. |
fossane | noun (n.) A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet. |
frangipane | noun (n.) A perfume of jasmine; frangipani. |
noun (n.) A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds. |
germane | adjective (a.) Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. |
glaucophane | noun (n.) A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks. |
grane | noun (v. & n.) See Groan. |
hecdecane | noun (n.) A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane. |
henbane | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus. |
hendecane | noun (n.) A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane. |
heptane | noun (n.) Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc. |
hexadecane | noun (n.) See Hecdecane. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH JANE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (jan) - Words That Begins with jan:
jan | noun (n.) One of intermediate order between angels and men. |
jangling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jangle |
noun (n.) Idle babbling; vain disputation. | |
noun (n.) Wrangling; altercation. | |
adjective (a.) Producing discordant sounds. |
jangle | noun (n.) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble. |
noun (n.) Discordant sound; wrangling. | |
verb (v. i.) To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune. | |
verb (v. i.) To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. | |
verb (v. i.) To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with. |
jangler | noun (n.) An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. |
noun (n.) A wrangling, noisy fellow. |
jangleress | noun (n.) A female prater or babbler. |
janglery | noun (n.) Jangling. |
janissary | noun (n.) See Janizary. |
janitor | noun (n.) A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc. |
janitress | noun (n.) Alt. of Janitrix |
janitrix | noun (n.) A female janitor. |
janizar | noun (n.) A janizary. |
janizarian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the janizaries, or their government. |
janizary | noun (n.) A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826. |
janker | noun (n.) A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs. |
jansenism | noun (n.) The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace. |
jansenist | noun (n.) A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace. |
janthina | noun (n.) See Ianthina. |
jantiness | noun (n.) See Jauntiness. |
jantu | noun (n.) A machine of great antiquity, used in Bengal for raising water to irrigate land. |
janty | adjective (a.) See Jaunty. |
january | noun (n.) The first month of the year, containing thirty-one days. |
janus | noun (n.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH JANE:
English Words which starts with 'j' and ends with 'e':
jaborine | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in jaborandi leaves, from which it is extracted as a white amorphous substance. In its action it resembles atropine. |
jacare | noun (n.) A cayman. See Yacare. |
jackknife | noun (n.) A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife. |
jackslave | noun (n.) A low servant; a mean fellow. |
jacksnipe | noun (n.) A small European snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula); -- called also judcock, jedcock, juddock, jed, and half snipe. |
noun (n.) A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe. |
jackstone | noun (n.) One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones. |
noun (n.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck. |
jacobine | noun (n.) A Jacobin. |
jacobite | noun (n.) A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary. |
noun (n.) One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradaeus, its leader in the sixth century. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Jacobites. |
jacquerie | noun (n.) The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants. |
jaculable | adjective (a.) Fit for throwing. |
jade | noun (n.) A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples. |
noun (n.) A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. | |
noun (n.) A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man. | |
noun (n.) A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. | |
verb (v. t.) To treat like a jade; to spurn. | |
verb (v. t.) To make ridiculous and contemptible. | |
verb (v. t.) To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass. | |
verb (v. i.) To become weary; to lose spirit. |
jadeite | noun (n.) See Jade, the stone. |
jakie | noun (n.) A South American striped frog (Pseudis paradoxa), remarkable for having a tadpole larger than the adult, and hence called also paradoxical frog. |
jalousie | noun (n.) A Venetian or slatted inside window blind. |
jamaicine | noun (n.) An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam; -- called also jamacina. |
jambee | noun (n.) A fashionable cane. |
jamesonite | noun (n.) A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron. |
japanese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan. |
noun (n. sing. & pl.) The language of the people of Japan. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants. |
japhethite | noun (n.) A Japhetite. |
japhetite | noun (n.) A descendant of Japheth. |
jardiniere | noun (n.) An ornamental stand or receptacle for plants, flowers, etc., used as a piece of decorative furniture in room. |
noun (n.) A preparation of mixed vegetables stewed in a sauce with savory herbs, etc.; also, a soup made in this way. |
jargonelle | noun (n.) A variety of pear which ripens early. |
jarosite | noun (n.) An ocher-yellow mineral occurring on minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash. |
jasmine | noun (n.) A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The J. officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is J. Sambac, and, with J. angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis and Faramea. |
jaspachate | noun (n.) Agate jasper. |
jaspilite | noun (n.) A compact siliceous rock resembling jasper. |
jaundice | noun (n.) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the faeces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood. |
verb (v. t.) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice. |
javanese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Java. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Java, or to the people of Java. |
jawbone | noun (n.) The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible. |
jeffersonite | noun (n.) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc. |
jejune | adjective (a.) Lacking matter; empty; void of substance. |
adjective (a.) Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative. |
jenite | noun (n.) See Yenite. |
jeremiade | noun (n.) A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically. |
jeronymite | noun (n.) One belonging of the mediaeval religious orders called Hermits of St. Jerome. |
jervine | noun (n.) A poisonous alkaloid resembling veratrine, and found with it in white hellebore (Veratrum album); -- called also jervina. |
jessamine | noun (n.) Same as Jasmine. |
jesse | noun (n.) Any representation or suggestion of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art |
noun (n.) A genealogical tree represented in stained glass. | |
noun (n.) A candlestick with many branches, each of which bears the name of some one of the descendants of Jesse; -- called also tree of Jesse. |
jettee | noun (n.) See Jetty, n. |
jewise | noun (n.) Same as Juise. |
jewstone | noun (n.) A large clavate spine of a fossil sea urchin. |
jingle | noun (n.) A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal. |
noun (n.) That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle. | |
noun (n.) A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself. | |
verb (v. i.) To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. | |
verb (v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle. |
jinnee | noun (n.) A genius or demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms. |
jocose | adjective (a.) Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. |
joe | noun (n.) See Johannes. |
joggle | noun (n.) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping; sometimes, but incorrectly, applied to a separate piece fitted into two adjacent stones, or the like. |
verb (v. t.) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog. | |
verb (v. t.) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel. | |
verb (v. i.) To shake or totter; to slip out of place. |
johnnycake | noun (n.) A kind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked. |
johnsonese | noun (n.) The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. |
jointure | noun (n.) A joining; a joint. |
noun (n.) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower. | |
verb (v. t.) To settle a jointure upon. |
joke | noun (n.) Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes. |
noun (n.) Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport. | |
verb (v. t.) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade. | |
verb (v. i.) To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest. |
jole | noun (v. t. & n.) Alt. of Joll |
jonquille | noun (n.) A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Jonquilla), allied to the daffodil. It has long, rushlike leaves, and yellow or white fragrant flowers. The root has emetic properties. It is sometimes called the rush-leaved daffodil. See Illust. of Corona. |
jostle | noun (n.) A conflict by collisions; a crowding or bumping together; interference. |
verb (v. t.) To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against. | |
verb (v. i.) To push; to crowd; to hustle. |
jouissance | noun (n.) Jollity; merriment. |
joule | noun (n.) A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds. |
jounce | noun (n.) A jolt; a shake; a hard trot. |
verb (v. t. & i.) To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions. |
jove | noun (n.) The chief divinity of the ancient Romans; Jupiter. |
noun (n.) The planet Jupiter. | |
noun (n.) The metal tin. |
joyace | noun (n.) Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness. |
joysome | adjective (a.) Causing joyfulness. |
jubate | adjective (a.) Fringed with long, pendent hair. |
jube | noun (n.) chancel screen or rood screen. |
noun (n.) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read. |
jubilate | noun (n.) The third Sunday after Easter; -- so called because the introit is the 66th Psalm, which, in the Latin version, begins with the words, "Jubilate Deo." |
noun (n.) A name of the 100th Psalm; -- so called from its opening word in the Latin version. | |
verb (v. i.) To exult; to rejoice. |
jubilee | noun (n.) 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. |
noun (n.) 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. | |
noun (n.) 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. | |
noun (n.) A season of general joy. | |
noun (n.) A state of joy or exultation. | |
() One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated. |
judahite | noun (n.) One of the tribe of Judah; a member of the kingdom of Judah; a Jew. |
judge | adjective (a.) To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence. |
adjective (a.) To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3. | |
verb (v. i.) A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. | |
verb (v. i.) One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic. | |
verb (v. i.) A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race. | |
verb (v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years. | |
verb (v. i.) The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges. | |
verb (v. t.) To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about. | |
verb (v. t.) To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties. | |
verb (v. t.) To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom. | |
verb (v. t.) To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward. | |
verb (v. t.) To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon. | |
verb (v. t.) To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern. |
judicative | adjective (a.) Having power to judge; judicial; as, the judicative faculty. |
judicature | noun (n.) The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice. |
noun (n.) A court of justice; a judicatory. | |
noun (n.) The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court. |
juge | noun (n.) A judge. |
juggle | noun (n.) A trick by sleight of hand. |
noun (n.) An imposture; a deception. | |
noun (n.) A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split. | |
verb (v. i.) To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure. | |
verb (v. i.) To practice artifice or imposture. | |
verb (v. t.) To deceive by trick or artifice. |
juglandine | noun (n.) An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut (Juglans regia). |
juglone | noun (n.) A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted from green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia); -- called also nucin. |
juice | noun (n.) The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking. |
verb (v. t.) To moisten; to wet. |
juise | noun (n.) Judgment; justice; sentence. |
jujube | noun (n.) The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees, of the genus Zizyphus, especially the Z. jujuba, Z. vulgaris, Z. mucronata, and Z. Lotus. The last named is thought to have furnished the lotus of the ancient Libyan Lotophagi, or lotus eaters. |
noun (n.) A lozenge made of or in imitation of, or flavored with, the jujube fruit. |
juke | noun (n.) The neck of a bird. |
verb (v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head. | |
verb (v. i.) To perch on anything, as birds do. |
julienne | noun (n.) A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc. |
jumble | noun (n.) A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words. |
noun (n.) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped. | |
verb (v. t.) To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up. | |
verb (v. i.) To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly. |
juncate | noun (n.) See Junket. |
juncite | noun (n.) A fossil rush. |
juncture | noun (n.) A joining; a union; an alliance. |
noun (n.) The line or point at which two bodies are joined; a joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the bones. | |
noun (n.) A point of time; esp., one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency. |
june | noun (n.) The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days. |
noun (n.) The sister and wife of Jupiter, the queen of heaven, and the goddess who presided over marriage. She corresponds to the Greek Hera. | |
noun (n.) One of the early discovered asteroids. |
jungle | noun (n.) A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. |
juniperite | noun (n.) One of the fossil Coniferae, evidently allied to the juniper. |
junartie | noun (n.) Jeopardy. |
jupe | noun (n.) Same as Jupon. |
jurisdictive | adjective (a.) Having jurisdiction. |
jurisprudence | adjective (a.) The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of justice. |
justice | adjective (a.) 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. |
adjective (a.) 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. | |
adjective (a.) 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. | |
adjective (a.) Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim. | |
adjective (a.) A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice. | |
verb (v. t.) To administer justice to. |
justiceable | adjective (a.) Liable to trial in a court of justice. |
justiciable | adjective (a.) Proper to be examined in a court of justice. |
justifiable | adjective (a.) Capable of being justified, or shown to be just. |
justificative | adjective (a.) Having power to justify; justificatory. |
justle | noun (n.) An encounter or shock; a jostle. |
verb (v. i.) To run or strike against each other; to encounter; to clash; to jostle. | |
verb (v. t.) To push; to drive; to force by running against; to jostle. |
jute | noun (n.) The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc. |
juvenescence | noun (n.) A growing young. |
juvenile | noun (n.) A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly. |
adjective (a.) Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports. |
juwise | noun (n.) Same as Juise. |
jambooree | noun (n.) A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree. |
jaspe | adjective (a.) Having the surface decorated with cloudings and streaks, somewhat as if imitating jasper. |
jumelle | noun (n.) A jumelle opera glass, or the like. |
adjective (a.) Twin; paired; -- said of various objects made or formed in pairs, as a binocular opera glass, a pair of gimmal rings, etc. |