JACY
First name JACY's origin is Native American. JACY means "moon". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with JACY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of jacy.(Brown names are of the same origin (Native American) with JACY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming JACY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES JACY AS A WHOLE:
jacynthNAMES RHYMING WITH JACY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (acy) - Names That Ends with acy:
kacy macy tacy tracy ignacy stacy treacy dacy lacyRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (cy) - Names That Ends with cy:
percy darcy kelcy lucy nancy clancy quincy yancy mercy aldercy chauncy delancyNAMES RHYMING WITH JACY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (jac) - Names That Begins with jac:
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 jacquiRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ja) - Names That Begins with ja:
jaakkina jaana jaantje jaap jabari jabbar jabin jabir jabulela jada jadalynn jadan jadarian jadaya jade jadee jadelyn jaden jader jadira jadon jady jadyn jae jaecar jaecilynn jaeda jaeden jaedin jaedon jaedyn jael jaeleah jaelin jaelyn jaelynn jaena jaenette jafar jafari jaffa jafit jafita jaganmata jager jagger jago jagur jaha jahi jahmal jahnisce jai jaicee jaida jaide jaidenNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH JACY:
First Names which starts with 'j' and ends with 'y':
jamey janey jay jazzy jeanay jeffery jeffrey jeffry jenay jennay jenny jeramy jeremy jerry jessemy jessey jessy jilly jimmy jinny joby jody joely joey johnny jonay jordy jory joy jozy judyEnglish Words Rhyming JACY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES JACY AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH JACY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (acy) - English Words That Ends with acy:
abbacy | noun (n.) The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot. |
accuracy | noun (n.) The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. |
acritochromacy | noun (n.) Color blindness; achromatopsy. |
adequacy | noun (n.) The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure. |
advocacy | noun (n.) The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession. |
alternacy | noun (n.) Alternateness; alternation. |
archiepiscopacy | noun (n.) That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops. |
noun (n.) The state or dignity of an archbishop. |
aristocracy | noun (n.) Government by the best citizens. |
noun (n.) A ruling body composed of the best citizens. | |
noun (n.) A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. | |
noun (n.) The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect. |
autocracy | noun (n.) Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. |
noun (n.) Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat. | |
noun (n.) Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. | |
noun (n.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. |
bureaucracy | noun (n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system. |
noun (n.) Government officials, collectively. |
candidacy | noun (n.) The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship. |
celibacy | noun (n.) The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. |
coefficacy | noun (n.) Joint efficacy. |
complicacy | noun (n.) A state of being complicate or intricate. |
concubinacy | noun (n.) The practice of concubinage. |
confederacy | noun (n.) A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance. |
noun (n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation. | |
noun (n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy. | |
noun (n.) With the, the Confederate States of America. |
congeneracy | noun (n.) Similarity of origin; affinity. |
conspiracy | noun (n.) A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot. |
noun (n.) A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement. | |
noun (n.) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy. |
contumacy | noun (n.) Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority. |
noun (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned. |
curacy | noun (n.) The office or employment of a curate. |
degeneracy | adjective (a.) The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. |
adjective (a.) The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. |
delegacy | adjective (a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power. |
adjective (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation. |
delicacy | adjective (a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. |
adjective (a.) Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame. | |
adjective (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action. | |
adjective (a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment. | |
adjective (a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy. | |
adjective (a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance. | |
adjective (a.) That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table. | |
adjective (a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight. |
deliracy | noun (n.) Delirium. |
democracy | noun (n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people. |
noun (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic. | |
noun (n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government. | |
noun (n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called. |
demonocracy | noun (n.) The power or government of demons. |
depopulacy | noun (n.) Depopulation; destruction of population. |
determinacy | noun (n.) Determinateness. |
diplomacy | noun (n.) The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed. |
noun (n.) Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact. | |
noun (n.) The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body. |
disconsolacy | noun (n.) The state of being disconsolate. |
docimacy | noun (n.) The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology. |
doulocracy | noun (n.) A government by slaves. |
dulocracy | noun (n.) See Doulocracy. |
effeminacy | noun (n.) Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men. |
efficacy | noun (n.) Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. |
episcopacy | noun (n.) Government of the church by bishops; church government by three distinct orders of ministers -- bishops, priests, and deacons -- of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind. |
equivocacy | noun (n.) Equivocalness. |
extacy | noun (n.) See Ecstasy. |
fallacy | noun (n.) Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. |
noun (n.) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism. |
fermacy | noun (n.) Medicine; pharmacy. |
fugacy | noun (n.) Banishment. |
gerontocracy | noun (n.) Government by old men. |
gunocracy | noun (n.) See Gyneocracy. |
gynecocracy | noun (n.) Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy. |
gyneocracy | noun (n.) See Gynecocracy. |
gynocracy | noun (n.) Female government; gynecocracy. |
hagiocracy | noun (n.) Government by a priesthood; hierarchy. |
hierocracy | noun (n.) Government by ecclesiastics; a hierarchy. |
idiocracy | noun (n.) Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy. |
illegitimacy | noun (n.) The state of being illegitimate. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH JACY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (jac) - Words That Begins with jac:
jacamar | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of tropical American birds of the genus Galbula and allied genera. They are allied to the kingfishers, but climb on tree trunks like nuthatches, and feed upon insects. Their colors are often brilliant. |
jacana | noun (n.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird. |
jacaranda | noun (n.) The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood. |
noun (n.) A genus of bignoniaceous Brazilian trees with showy trumpet-shaped flowers. |
jacare | noun (n.) A cayman. See Yacare. |
jacchus | noun (n.) The common marmoset (Hapale vulgaris). Formerly, the name was also applied to other species of the same genus. |
jacconet | noun (n.) See Jaconet. |
jacent | adjective (a.) Lying at length; as, the jacent posture. |
jacinth | noun (n.) See Hyacinth. |
jack | noun (n.) A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow. |
noun (n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John. | |
noun (n.) An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic. | |
noun (n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat. | |
noun (n.) A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack | |
noun (n.) A device to pull off boots. | |
noun (n.) A sawhorse or sawbuck. | |
noun (n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack. | |
noun (n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting. | |
noun (n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles. | |
noun (n.) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box. | |
noun (n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine. | |
noun (n.) A compact, portable machine for planing metal. | |
noun (n.) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather. | |
noun (n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed. | |
noun (n.) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught. | |
noun (n.) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper. | |
noun (n.) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself. | |
noun (n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack. | |
noun (n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls. | |
noun (n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass. | |
noun (n.) A young pike; a pickerel. | |
noun (n.) The jurel. | |
noun (n.) A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou. | |
noun (n.) The wall-eyed pike. | |
noun (n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint. | |
noun (n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State. | |
noun (n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree. | |
noun (n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards. | |
noun (n.) A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather. | |
noun (n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack. | |
verb (v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n. | |
verb (v. t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5. |
jackal | noun (n.) Any one of several species of carnivorous animals inhabiting Africa and Asia, related to the dog and wolf. They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling. |
noun (n.) One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated. |
jackanapes | noun (n.) A monkey; an ape. |
noun (n.) A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow. |
jackass | noun (n.) The male ass; a donkey. |
noun (n.) A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead. |
jackdaw | noun (n.) See Daw, n. |
jackeen | noun (n.) A drunken, dissolute fellow. |
jacket | noun (n.) A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts. |
noun (n.) An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc. | |
noun (n.) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired. | |
noun (n.) A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket. | |
verb (v. t.) To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket. | |
verb (v. t.) To thrash; to beat. |
jacketed | adjective (a.) Wearing, or furnished with, a jacket. |
jacketing | noun (n.) The material of a jacket; as, nonconducting jacketing. |
jackknife | noun (n.) A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife. |
jackman | noun (n.) One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n. |
noun (n.) A cream cheese. |
jackpudding | noun (n.) A merry-andrew; a buffoon. |
jacksaw | noun (n.) The merganser. |
jackscrew | noun (n.) A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5. |
jackslave | noun (n.) A low servant; a mean fellow. |
jacksmith | noun (n.) A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c. |
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. |
jackstay | noun (n.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened. |
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. |
jackstraw | noun (n.) An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. |
noun (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin. |
jackwood | noun (n.) Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork. |
jacob | noun (n.) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel. |
jacobean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Jacobian |
jacobian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England. |
jacobin | noun (n.) A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris. |
noun (n.) One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue. | |
noun (n.) A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short. | |
adjective (a.) Same as Jacobinic. |
jacobine | noun (n.) A Jacobin. |
jacobinic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Jacobinical |
jacobinical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism. |
jacobinism | noun (n.) The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government. |
jacobinizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jacobinize |
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. |
jacobitic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Jacobitical |
jacobitical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism. |
jacobitism | noun (n.) The principles of the Jacobites. |
jacobus | noun (n.) An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I. |
jaconet | noun (n.) A thin cotton fabric, between and muslin, used for dresses, neckcloths, etc. |
jacquard | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834. |
jacqueminot | noun (n.) A half-hardy, deep crimson rose of the remontant class; -- so named after General Jacqueminot, of France. |
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. |
jactancy | noun (n.) A boasting; a bragging. |
jactation | noun (n.) A throwing or tossing of the body; a shaking or agitation. |
jactitation | noun (n.) Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim. |
noun (n.) A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH JACY:
English Words which starts with 'j' and ends with 'y':
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. |
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. |
jocosity | noun (n.) A jocose act or saying; jocoseness. |
jocularity | noun (n.) Jesting; merriment. |
joculary | adjective (a.) Jocular; jocose; sportive. |
joculatory | adjective (a.) Droll; sportive. |
jocundity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness. |
johnny | noun (n.) A familiar diminutive of John. |
noun (n.) A sculpin. |
joinery | noun (n.) The art, or trade, of a joiner; the work of a joiner. |
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. |
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. |
joyancy | noun (n.) Joyance. |
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. |