Name Report For First Name JOY:
JOY
First name JOY's origin is French. JOY means "jewel/delight". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with JOY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of joy.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with JOY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with JOY - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming JOY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES JOY AS A WHOLE:
joyce joyceanne joyceline joycelyn joycelynn joya joyann joyanna joyanne joyelleNAMES RHYMING WITH JOY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (oy) - Names That Ends with oy:
gilroy alroy conroy delroy doy eloy elroy evoy leeroy leroy macelroy malloy mccoy molloy roy troy benroy pomeroy noyNAMES RHYMING WITH JOY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (jo) - Names That Begins with jo:
joachim joah joan joana joandra joanie joann joanna joanne joaquin joaquina joaquine joash job jobe joben jobina joby jobyna jocasta jocelin jocelina joceline jocelyn jocelyne jocelynn jochebed jocheved jock joda jodayne jodee jodi jodie jody joe joeanna joeanne joed joei joel joeliyn joell joella joelle joellen joelliana joelliane joely joen joey joff johan johanan johann johanna johannah johanne johannes johara johfrit john john-paul johnathan johnathon johnell johnelle johnetta johnette johnn johnna johnnie johnny johnson johnston johyna joi joia joie joka joki jokin jokina jokine jola jolan jolanka jolee joleen joleigh jolena jolene joli jolie jolina joline jolisa jolleen jollene jolonNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH JOY:
First Names which starts with 'j' and ends with 'y':
jacey jacky jacy jady jamey janey jay jazzy jeanay jeffery jeffrey jeffry jenay jennay jenny jeramy jeremy jerry jessemy jessey jessy jilly jimmy jinny jonay jordy jory jozy judyEnglish Words Rhyming JOY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES JOY AS A WHOLE:
| enjoying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enjoy |
| enjoyable | adjective (a.) Capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment. |
| enjoyer | noun (n.) One who enjoys. |
| enjoyment | noun (n.) The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate. |
| noun (n.) That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. |
| joy | noun (n.) The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight. |
| noun (n.) That which causes joy or happiness. | |
| noun (n.) The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity. | |
| noun (n.) To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult. | |
| verb (v. t.) To give joy to; to congratulate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enjoy. |
| joying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Joy |
| joyace | noun (n.) Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness. |
| joyancy | noun (n.) Joyance. |
| joyful | adjective (a.) Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart. |
| joyless | adjective (a.) Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable. |
| joyous | adjective (a.) Glad; gay; merry; joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy. |
| joysome | adjective (a.) Causing joyfulness. |
| overjoy | noun (n.) Excessive joy; transport. |
| verb (v. t.) To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely. |
| reenjoyment | noun (n.) Renewed enjoyment. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH JOY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (oy) - English Words That Ends with oy:
| annoy | noun (n.) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. |
| noun (n.) To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade. | |
| noun (n.) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy. |
| bavaroy | noun (n.) A kind of cloak or surtout. |
| billyboy | noun (n.) A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. |
| boy | noun (n.) A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. |
| noun (n.) In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race. | |
| verb (v. t.) To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage. |
| buoy | noun (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up. | |
| verb (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel. | |
| verb (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy. |
| bushboy | noun (n.) See Bushman. |
| candroy | noun (n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing. |
| canticoy | noun (n.) A social gathering; usually, one for dancing. |
| carboy | noun (n.) A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc. |
| convoy | noun (n.) The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort. |
| noun (n.) A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort. | |
| noun (n.) A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance. | |
| noun (n.) Conveyance; means of transportation. | |
| noun (n.) A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill. | |
| verb (v. t.) To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman. |
| corduroy | noun (n.) A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges. |
| noun (n.) Trousers or breeches of corduroy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form of logs laid side by side. |
| cowboy | noun (n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States. |
| noun (n.) One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans. |
| coy | adjective (a.) Quiet; still. |
| adjective (a.) Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry. | |
| adjective (a.) Soft; gentle; hesitating. | |
| verb (v. t.) To allure; to entice; to decoy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To caress with the hand; to stroke. | |
| verb (v. i.) To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make difficulty; to be unwilling. |
| decoy | noun (n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait. |
| noun (n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot. | |
| noun (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them. | |
| noun (n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. |
| deploy | noun (n.) Alt. of Deployment |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle. |
| drawboy | noun (n.) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office. |
| employ | noun (n.) That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment. |
| verb (v. t.) To inclose; to infold. | |
| verb (v. t.) To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies. | |
| verb (v. t.) To occupy; as, to employ time in study. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy. |
| envoy | noun (n.) One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador. |
| noun (n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. |
| footboy | noun (n.) A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey. |
| foy | noun (n.) Faith; allegiance; fealty. |
| noun (n.) A feast given by one about to leave a place. |
| hautboy | noun (n.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe. |
| noun (n.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior). |
| henchboy | noun (n.) A page; a servant. |
| hobbledehoy | noun (n.) Alt. of Hobbletehoy |
| hobbletehoy | noun (n.) A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . |
| hoboy | noun (n.) A hautboy or oboe. |
| hoy | noun (n.) A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. |
| (interj.) Ho! Halloe! Stop! |
| highboy | noun (n.) One who lives high; also, in politics, a highflyer. |
| noun (n.) A kind of set of drawers. |
| l'envoy | noun (n.) One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry. |
| noun (n.) A conclusion; a result. |
| linkboy | noun (n.) Alt. of Linkman |
| loy | noun (n.) A long, narrow spade for stony lands. |
| lowboy | noun (n.) A chest of drawers not more than four feet high; -- applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed. |
| maccaboy | noun (n.) Alt. of Maccoboy |
| maccoboy | noun (n.) A kind of snuff. |
| newsboy | noun (n.) A boy who distributes or sells newspaper. |
| norroy | noun (n.) The most northern of the English Kings-at-arms. See King-at-arms, under King. |
| noy | noun (n.) That which annoys. |
| verb (v. t.) To annoy; to vex. |
| padesoy | noun (n.) See Paduasoy. |
| paduasoy | noun (n.) A rich and heavy silk stuff. |
| plowboy | noun (n.) Alt. of Ploughboy |
| ploughboy | noun (n.) A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic. |
| ploy | noun (n.) Sport; frolic. |
| verb (v. i.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy. |
| postboy | noun (n.) One who rides post horses; a position; a courier. |
| noun (n.) A boy who carries letters from the post. |
| potboy | noun (n.) A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house. |
| poy | noun (n.) A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy. |
| noun (n.) A ropedancer's balancing pole. | |
| noun (n.) A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream. |
| puoy | noun (n.) Same as Poy, n., 3. |
| renvoy | noun (n.) A sending back. |
| verb (v. t.) To send back. |
| roy | noun (n.) A king. |
| adjective (a.) Royal. |
| saveloy | noun (n.) A kind of dried sausage. |
| savoy | noun (n.) A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use. |
| schoolboy | noun (n.) A boy belonging to, or attending, a school. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH JOY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (jo) - Words That Begins with jo:
| job | noun (n.) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab. |
| noun (n.) A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars. | |
| noun (n.) A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business. | |
| noun (n.) Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. | |
| noun (n.) A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job. | |
| noun (n.) The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. | |
| verb (v. t.) To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. | |
| verb (v. t.) To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract. | |
| verb (v. t.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. | |
| verb (v. i.) To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work. | |
| verb (v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage. | |
| verb (v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks. |
| jobbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Job |
| adjective (a.) Doing chance work or add jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter. | |
| adjective (a.) Using opportunities of public service for private gain; as, a jobbing politician. |
| jobation | noun (n.) A scolding; a hand, tedious reproof. |
| jobber | noun (n.) One who works by the job. |
| noun (n.) A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber. | |
| noun (n.) One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers. | |
| noun (n.) One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue. |
| jobbernowl | noun (n.) A blockhead. |
| jobbery | noun (n.) The act or practice of jobbing. |
| noun (n.) Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery. |
| jocantry | noun (n.) The act or practice of jesting. |
| jockey | noun (n.) A professional rider of horses in races. |
| noun (n.) A dealer in horses; a horse trader. | |
| noun (n.) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade. | |
| verb (v. t.) " To jostle by riding against one." | |
| verb (v. t.) To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play or act the jockey; to cheat. |
| jockeying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jockey |
| noun (n.) The act or management of one who jockeys; trickery. |
| jockeyism | noun (n.) The practice of jockeys. |
| jockeyship | noun (n.) The art, character, or position, of a jockey; the personality of a jockey. |
| jocose | adjective (a.) Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. |
| jocoserious | adjective (a.) Mingling mirth and seriousness. |
| jocosity | noun (n.) A jocose act or saying; jocoseness. |
| jocular | adjective (a.) Given to jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person. |
| adjective (a.) Sportive; merry. |
| jocularity | noun (n.) Jesting; merriment. |
| joculary | adjective (a.) Jocular; jocose; sportive. |
| joculator | noun (n.) A jester; a joker. |
| joculatory | adjective (a.) Droll; sportive. |
| jocundity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness. |
| joe | noun (n.) See Johannes. |
| jogging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jog |
| noun (n.) The act of giving a jog or jogs; traveling at a jog. |
| jog | noun (n.) A slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a push; a jolt. |
| noun (n.) A rub; a slight stop; an obstruction; hence, an irregularity in motion of from; a hitch; a break in the direction of a line or the surface of a plane. | |
| verb (v. t.) To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn. | |
| verb (v. t.) To suggest to; to notify; to remind; to call the attention of; as, to jog the memory. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a horse. See Jog, v. i. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move by jogs or small shocks, like those of a slow trot; to move slowly, leisurely, or monotonously; -- usually with on, sometimes with over. |
| jogger | noun (n.) One who jogs. |
| joggling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Joggle |
| 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. |
| johannean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to John, esp. to the Apostle John or his writings. |
| johannes | noun (n.) A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears; -- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe. |
| johannisberger | noun (n.) A fine white wine produced on the estate of Schloss (or Castle) Johannisberg, on the Rhine. |
| john | noun (n.) A proper name of a man. |
| johnadreams | noun (n.) A dreamy, idle fellow. |
| johnny | noun (n.) A familiar diminutive of John. |
| noun (n.) A sculpin. |
| 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. |
| johnsonian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated. |
| johnsonianism | noun (n.) A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson. |
| joining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Join |
| join | noun (n.) The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append. | |
| verb (v. t.) To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church. | |
| verb (v. t.) To unite in marriage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enjoin upon; to command. | |
| verb (v. t.) To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the hones of the skull join; two rivers join. |
| joinant | adjective (a.) Adjoining. |
| joiner | noun (n.) One who, or that which, joins. |
| noun (n.) One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings. | |
| noun (n.) A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc. |
| joinery | noun (n.) The art, or trade, of a joiner; the work of a joiner. |
| joinhand | noun (n.) Writing in which letters are joined in words; -- distinguished from writing in single letters. |
| joint | noun (n.) The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe. |
| noun (n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation. | |
| noun (n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg. | |
| noun (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting. | |
| noun (n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. | |
| noun (n.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint. | |
| noun (n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together. | |
| noun (n.) A projecting or retreating part in something; any irregularity of line or surface, as in a wall. | |
| noun (n.) A narrow piece of scenery used to join together two flats or wings of an interior setting. | |
| noun (n.) A place of low resort, as for smoking opium. | |
| adjective (a.) Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action. | |
| adjective (a.) Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together. | |
| adjective (a.) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc. | |
| adjective (a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond. | |
| verb (v. t.) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards. | |
| verb (v. t.) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine. | |
| verb (v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly. |
| jointing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Joint |
| noun (n.) The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. |
| jointed | adjective (a.) Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Joint |
| jointer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, joints. |
| noun (n.) A plane for smoothing the surfaces of pieces which are to be accurately joined | |
| noun (n.) The longest plane used by a joiner. | |
| noun (n.) A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves. | |
| noun (n.) A bent piece of iron inserted to strengthen the joints of a wall. | |
| noun (n.) A tool for pointing the joints in brickwork. |
| jointless | adjective (a.) Without a joint; rigid; stiff. |
| jointress | noun (n.) A woman who has a jointure. |
| 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. |
| jointuring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jointure |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH JOY:
English Words which starts with 'j' and ends with 'y':
| jackstay | noun (n.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened. |
| jactancy | noun (n.) A boasting; a bragging. |
| jaculatory | adjective (a.) Darting or throwing out suddenly; also, suddenly thrown out; uttered in short sentences; ejaculatory; as, jaculatory prayers. |
| jadery | noun (n.) The tricks of a jade. |
| jaggery | noun (n.) Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis). |
| jaggy | adjective (a.) Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven; as, jaggy teeth. |
| janglery | noun (n.) Jangling. |
| janissary | noun (n.) See Janizary. |
| janizary | noun (n.) A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826. |
| janty | adjective (a.) See Jaunty. |
| january | noun (n.) The first month of the year, containing thirty-one days. |
| japery | noun (n.) Jesting; buffoonery. |
| jarvey | noun (n.) Alt. of Jarvy |
| jarvy | noun (n.) The driver of a hackney coach. |
| noun (n.) A hackney coach. |
| jasey | noun (n.) A wig; -- so called, perhaps, from being made of, or resembling, Jersey yarn. |
| jaspery | adjective (a.) Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper. |
| jawy | adjective (a.) Relating to the jaws. |
| jay | noun (n.) Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to Garrulus, Cyanocitta, and allied genera. They are allied to the crows, but are smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely colored, and usually have a crest. |
| jealousy | noun (n.) The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. |
| jejunity | noun (n.) The quality of being jejune; jejuneness. |
| jelly | noun (n.) Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like. |
| noun (n.) The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly. |
| jemmy | noun (n.) A short crowbar. See Jimmy. |
| noun (n.) A baked sheep's head. | |
| adjective (a.) Spruce. |
| jenny | noun (n.) A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane. |
| noun (n.) A familiar name of the European wren. | |
| noun (n.) A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used in factories. |
| jeopardy | noun (n.) Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger. |
| verb (v. t.) To jeopardize. |
| jerky | adjective (a.) Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style. |
| jersey | noun (n.) The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool. |
| noun (n.) A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet). | |
| noun (n.) One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk. |
| jesuitocracy | noun (n.) Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country. |
| jesuitry | noun (n.) Jesuitism; subtle argument. |
| jetty | noun (n.) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below. |
| noun (n.) A wharf or pier extending from the shore. | |
| noun (n.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River. | |
| adjective (a.) Made of jet, or like jet in color. | |
| verb (v. i.) To jut out; to project. |
| jewellery | noun (n.) See Jewelry. |
| jewelry | noun (n.) The art or trade of a jeweler. |
| noun (n.) Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry. |
| jewry | noun (n.) Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter. |
| jiffy | noun (n.) A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy. |
| jimmy | noun (n.) A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors. |
| jollity | noun (n.) Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment. |
| jolty | adjective (a.) That jolts; as, a jolty coach. |
| journey | noun (n.) The travel or work of a day. |
| noun (n.) Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life. | |
| verb (v. i.) To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To traverse; to travel over or through. |
| joviality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being jovial. |
| jovialty | noun (n.) Joviality. |
| jucundity | noun (n.) Pleasantness; agreeableness. See Jocundity. |
| judicatory | noun (n.) A court of justice; a tribunal. |
| noun (n.) Administration of justice. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals. |
| judiciary | noun (n.) That branch of government in which judicial power is vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on the judiciary. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding. |
| jugglery | noun (n.) The art or act of a juggler; sleight of hand. |
| noun (n.) Trickery; imposture; as, political jugglery. |
| july | noun (n.) The seventh month of the year, containing thirty-one days. |
| juneberry | noun (n.) The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry. |
| noun (n.) The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and had tree. |
| jungly | adjective (a.) Consisting of jungles; abounding with jungles; of the nature of a jungle. |
| juniority | noun (n.) The state or quality of being junior. |
| juratory | adjective (a.) Relating to or comprising an oath; as, juratory caution. |
| jury | adjective (a.) For temporary use; -- applied to a temporary contrivance. |
| adjective (a.) A body of men, usually twelve, selected according to law, impaneled and sworn to inquire into and try any matter of fact, and to render their true verdict according to the evidence legally adduced. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest. | |
| adjective (a.) A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize. |
| justiciary | noun (n.) An old name for the judges of the higher English courts. |
| justificatory | adjective (a.) Vindicatory; defensory; justificative. |
| justify | adjective (a.) To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty. |
| adjective (a.) 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. | |
| adjective (a.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve. | |
| adjective (a.) To prove; to ratify; to confirm. | |
| adjective (a.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety. | |
| verb (v. t.) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a change or accusation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To qualify (one's self) as a surely by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property. |
| justly | adjective (a.) In a just manner; in conformity to law, justice, or propriety; by right; honestly; fairly; accurately. |
| jutty | noun (n.) A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty. |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To project beyond. |
| juvenility | noun (n.) Youthfulness; adolescence. |
| noun (n.) The manners or character of youth; immaturity. |
| jacky | noun (n.) Dim. or pet from Jack |
| noun (n.) A landsman's nickname for a seaman, resented by the latter. | |
| noun (n.) English gin. |
| jerry | adjective (a.) Flimsy; jerry-built. |
| jolly | adjective (a.) A marine in the English navy. |
| superlative (superl.) Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. | |
| superlative (superl.) Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety. | |
| superlative (superl.) Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to be jolly; to make good-natured; to encourage to feel pleasant or cheerful; -- often implying an insincere or bantering spirit; hence, to poke fun at. |
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