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An alphabetical listing of General terms and items.

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The 10th letter of the Roman alphabet


J   Dico Tools
A unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second


J.R.R._Tolkien   Dico Tools
British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973)


J._B._Rhine   Dico Tools
United States parapsychologist (1895-1980)


J._B._S._Haldane   Dico Tools
Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)


J._C._Maxwell   Dico Tools
Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)


J._Craig_Ventner   Dico Tools
United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)


J._D._Salinger   Dico Tools
United States writer (born 1919)


J._E._Johnston   Dico Tools
Confederate general in the American Civil War; led the Confederate troops in the West (1807-1891)


J._Edgar_Hoover   Dico Tools
United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)


J._J._Hill   Dico Tools
United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)


J._M._Barrie   Dico Tools
Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)


J._M._Synge   Dico Tools
Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909)


J._P._Morgan   Dico Tools
United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913)


J._R._Firth   Dico Tools
English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)


Jab   Dico Tools
The act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow; "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs"


Jab   Dico Tools
A quick short straight punch


Jab   Dico Tools
A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"


Jab   Dico Tools
Poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs"


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Stab or pierce; "he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife"


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Jab   Dico Tools
Strike or punch quick and short blows


Jabalpur   Dico Tools
An industrial city of central India southeast of Delhi


Jabat_al-Tahrir_al-Filistiniyyah   Dico Tools
A terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; became a satellite of al-Fatah; made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanese border


Jabber   Dico Tools
Rapid and indistinct speech


Jabber   Dico Tools
Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner


Jabberer   Dico Tools
Someone whose talk is trivial drivel


Jabbering   Dico Tools
Rapid and indistinct speech


Jabbering   Dico Tools
Talking idly or incoherently; "blithering (or blathering) idiot"; "jabbering children"; "gabbling housewives"; "a babbling hospital inmate"


Jabberwocky   Dico Tools
Nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)


Jabbing   Dico Tools
A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"


Jabiru   Dico Tools
Large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America


Jabiru   Dico Tools
Large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle


Jabiru   Dico Tools
Large mostly white Australian stork


Jabiru_mycteria   Dico Tools
Large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America


Jaboncillo   Dico Tools
Evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans


Jabot   Dico Tools
A ruffle on the front of a woman''s blouse or a man''s shirt


Jaboticaba   Dico Tools
Tough-skinned purple grape-like tropical fruit grown in Brazil


Jaboticaba   Dico Tools
Small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches


Jaboticaba_tree   Dico Tools
Small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches


Jacamar   Dico Tools
Tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage


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Jacaranda   Dico Tools
An important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black


Jacinth   Dico Tools
A red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone


Jack   Dico Tools
Male donkey


Jack   Dico Tools
Any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm-temperate seas


Jack   Dico Tools
Tool for exerting pressure or lifting


Jack   Dico Tools
One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince


Jack   Dico Tools
Small flag indicating a ship''s nationality


Jack   Dico Tools
Game equipment consisting of one of several small objects picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks


Jack   Dico Tools
An electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug


Jack   Dico Tools
Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of; its seeds are commonly roasted


Jack   Dico Tools
Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor


Jack   Dico Tools
A man who serves as a sailor


Jack   Dico Tools
A small worthless amount; "you don''t know jack"


Jack   Dico Tools
Hunt with a jacklight


Jack   Dico Tools
Lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire"


Jack-a-lantern   Dico Tools
A large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent


Jack-by-the-hedge   Dico Tools
European herb that smells like garlic


Jack-in-the-box   Dico Tools
Plaything consisting of a toy clown that jumps out of a box when the lid is opened


Jack-in-the-pulpit   Dico Tools
Common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum


Jack-in-the-pulpit   Dico Tools
Common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries


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Jack-o'-lantern   Dico Tools
Lantern carved from a pumpkin


Jack-o'-lantern   Dico Tools
A pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground


Jack-o-lantern   Dico Tools
A large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent


Jack-o-lantern_fungus   Dico Tools
A large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent


Jack-tar   Dico Tools
A man who serves as a sailor


Jackal   Dico Tools
Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair


Jackanapes   Dico Tools
Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous


Jackass   Dico Tools
Male donkey


Jackass   Dico Tools
A man who is a stupid incompetent fool


Jackass_bat   Dico Tools
Large spotted bat of southwestern United States having enormous ears


Jackass_penguin   Dico Tools
Small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying call


Jackboot   Dico Tools
(19th century) a man''s high tasseled boot


Jackdaw   Dico Tools
Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery


Jacket   Dico Tools
A short coat


Jacket   Dico Tools
An outer wrapping or casing; "phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets"


Jacket   Dico Tools
The tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition


Jacket   Dico Tools
(dentistry) an artificial crown fitted over a broken or decayed tooth


Jacket   Dico Tools
The outer skin of a potato


Jacket   Dico Tools
Put a jacket on; "The men were jacketed"


Jacket   Dico Tools
Provide with a thermally non-conducting cover; "The tubing needs to be jacketed"


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Jacket_crown   Dico Tools
(dentistry) an artificial crown fitted over a broken or decayed tooth


Jacket_potato   Dico Tools
A baked potato served with the jacket on


Jackfruit   Dico Tools
Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of; its seeds are commonly roasted


Jackfruit   Dico Tools
East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds


Jackfruit_tree   Dico Tools
East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds


Jackhammer   Dico Tools
A hammer driven by compressed air


Jackie_Robinson   Dico Tools
United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)


Jacking_off   Dico Tools
Slang terms for masturbation


Jackknife   Dico Tools
A dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out


Jackknife   Dico Tools
A large knife with one or more folding blades


Jackknife   Dico Tools
Dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife


Jackknife-fish   Dico Tools
Black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin


Jackknife_clam   Dico Tools
Marine clam having a long narrow curved thin shell


Jacklight   Dico Tools
A light used as lure in hunting or fishing at night


Jacklight   Dico Tools
Hunt with a jacklight


Jackpot   Dico Tools
Any outstanding award


Jackpot   Dico Tools
The cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)


Jackrabbit   Dico Tools
Large hare of western North America


Jacks   Dico Tools
A game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball


Jacks   Dico Tools
Plaything consisting of small 6-pointed metal pieces that are used (along with a ball) to play the game of jacks


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Jackscrew   Dico Tools
Screw-operated jack


Jacksmelt   Dico Tools
Large silversides of Pacific coast of North America


Jacksnipe   Dico Tools
American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting


Jacksnipe   Dico Tools
A small short-billed Old World snipe


Jackson   Dico Tools
A town in south central Michigan


Jackson   Dico Tools
Capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl river


Jackson   Dico Tools
A town in western Tennessee


Jackson   Dico Tools
A town in western Wyoming


Jackson   Dico Tools
7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845)


Jackson   Dico Tools
General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)


Jackson   Dico Tools
United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885)


Jackson   Dico Tools
United States civil rights leader who led a national anti-discrimination campaign and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)


Jackson   Dico Tools
United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972)


Jackson   Dico Tools
United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958)


Jackson   Dico Tools
English film actress who later became a member of Parliament (born in 1936)


Jacksonia   Dico Tools
Genus of yellow-flowered Australian unarmed or spiny shrubs without true leaves but having leaflike stems or branches


Jacksonian   Dico Tools
Of or pertaining to Andrew Jackson or his presidency or his concepts of popular democracy


Jacksonian_epilepsy   Dico Tools
Focal epilepsy in which the attack usually moves from distal to proximal limb muscles on the same side of the body


Jacksonville   Dico Tools
Florida''s largest city; a port and important commercial center in northeastern Florida


Jackson_Pollock   Dico Tools
United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)


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Jackstones   Dico Tools
A game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball


Jackstones   Dico Tools
Plaything consisting of small 6-pointed metal pieces that are used (along with a ball) to play the game of jacks


Jackstraw   Dico Tools
A thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws


Jackstraws   Dico Tools
A game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others


Jack_bean   Dico Tools
Annual semi-erect bushy plant of tropical South America bearing long pods with white seeds grown especially for forage


Jack_Benny   Dico Tools
United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor (1894-1974)


Jack_crevalle   Dico Tools
Fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico


Jack_Dempsey   Dico Tools
United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983)


Jack_Frost   Dico Tools
A personification of frost or winter weather


Jack_Kennedy   Dico Tools
35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)


Jack_Kerouac   Dico Tools
United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969)


Jack_ladder   Dico Tools
(nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps


Jack_Lemmon   Dico Tools
United States film actor (born in 1925)


Jack_London   Dico Tools
United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)


Jack_mackerel   Dico Tools
A California food fish


Jack_Nicklaus   Dico Tools
United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940)


Jack_oak   Dico Tools
Small to medium deciduous oak of east central North America; leaves have sharply pointed lobes


Jack_oak   Dico Tools
A common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad 3-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets


Jack_off   Dico Tools
Get sexual gratification through self-stimulation


Jack_of_all_trades   Dico Tools
A man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks


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Jack_of_all_trades   Dico Tools
A person able to do a variety of different jobs acceptably well


Jack_pine   Dico Tools
Slender medium-sized 2-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly gray to red-brown fissured bark


Jack_plane   Dico Tools
A carpenter''s plane for rough surfacing


Jack_Roosevelt_Robinson   Dico Tools
United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)


Jack_salmon   Dico Tools
Pike-like freshwater perches


Jack_the_Ripper   Dico Tools
An unidentified English murderer in the 19th century


Jack_up   Dico Tools
Lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire"


Jack_William_Nicklaus   Dico Tools
United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940)


Jacob   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God'')


Jacob   Dico Tools
French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)


Jacob's_ladder   Dico Tools
(nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps


Jacob's_ladder   Dico Tools
Pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers


Jacob's_rod   Dico Tools
Asphodel having erect smooth unbranched stem either flexuous or straight


Jacob's_staff   Dico Tools
Desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers


Jacobean   Dico Tools
Any distinguished personage during the reign of James I


Jacobean   Dico Tools
Of or relating to James I or his reign or times; "Jacobean writers"


Jacobean_lily   Dico Tools
Mexican bulbous herb cultivated for its handsome bright red solitary flower


Jacobi   Dico Tools
German mathematician (1804-1851)


Jacobin   Dico Tools
A member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution


Jacobinic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; "Jacobinic terrorism"


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Jacobinical   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; "Jacobinic terrorism"


Jacobinism   Dico Tools
The ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror


Jacobite   Dico Tools
A supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts


Jacobs   Dico Tools
Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)


Jacobs   Dico Tools
United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)


Jacobs   Dico Tools
English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)


Jacobus_Arminius   Dico Tools
Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609)


Jacob_Epstein   Dico Tools
British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959)


Jacob_Harmensen   Dico Tools
Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609)


Jaconet   Dico Tools
A lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and slightly stiff finish; used for clothing and bandages


Jacopo_Robusti   Dico Tools
Italian painter of the Venetian school (1518-1594)


Jacquard   Dico Tools
A loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics


Jacquard   Dico Tools
A highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom


Jacquard   Dico Tools
French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)


Jacquard_loom   Dico Tools
A loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics


Jacqueline_Cochran   Dico Tools
United States aviator who held several speed records and headed the women''s Air Force pilots in World War II (1910-1980)


Jacquemier's_sign   Dico Tools
A purplish discoloration of the mucous membrane of the vagina that occurs early in pregnancy


Jacques_Alexandre_Cesar_Charles   Dico Tools
French physicist and uathor of Charles''s law which anticipated Gay-Lussac''s law (1746-1823)


Jacques_Anatole_Francois_Thibault   Dico Tools
French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924)


Jacques_Bernoulli   Dico Tools
Swiss mathematician (1654-1705)


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Jacques_Cartier   Dico Tools
French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557)


Jacques_Charles   Dico Tools
French physicist and uathor of Charles''s law which anticipated Gay-Lussac''s law (1746-1823)


Jacques_Costeau   Dico Tools
French underwater explorer (born in 1910)


Jacques_Derrida   Dico Tools
French philosopher and critic; exponent of deconstructionism (born in 1930)


Jacques_Etienne_Montgolfier   Dico Tools
French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799)


Jacques_Francois_Antoine_Ibert   Dico Tools
French composer (1890-1962)


Jacques_Francois_Fromental_Elie_Halevy   Dico Tools
French operatic composer (1799-1862)


Jacques_Germain_Soufflot   Dico Tools
French architect (1713-1780)


Jacques_Lipchitz   Dico Tools
United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973)


Jacques_Loeb   Dico Tools
United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924)


Jacques_Louis_David   Dico Tools
French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)


Jacques_Lucien_Monod   Dico Tools
French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976)


Jacques_Marquette   Dico Tools
French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675)


Jacques_Monod   Dico Tools
French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976)


Jacques_Offenbach   Dico Tools
French composer of many operettas and an opera (1819-1880)


Jacques_Tati   Dico Tools
French filmmaker (1908-1982)


Jacques_Tatischeff   Dico Tools
French filmmaker (1908-1982)


Jacques_Yves_Costeau   Dico Tools
French underwater explorer (born in 1910)


Jacquinia   Dico Tools
Sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae


Jacquinia_armillaris   Dico Tools
Small West Indian shrub or tree with hard glossy seeds patterned yellow and brown that are used to make bracelets


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Jacquinia_keyensis   Dico Tools
West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood


Jactation   Dico Tools
(pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness


Jactitate   Dico Tools
Move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"


Jactitation   Dico Tools
(pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness


Jactitation   Dico Tools
(law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)


Jactitation   Dico Tools
Speaking of yourself in superlatives


Jaculus   Dico Tools
Jerboas


Jaculus_jaculus   Dico Tools
A variety of jerboa


Jacuzzi   Dico Tools
A large whirlpool bathtub with underwater jets that massage the body


Jade   Dico Tools
An old or over-worked horse


Jade   Dico Tools
A light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green


Jade   Dico Tools
A woman adulterer


Jade   Dico Tools
A semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite


Jade   Dico Tools
Exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"


Jade   Dico Tools
Get tired of something or somebody


Jade   Dico Tools
Similar to the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green


Jade-green   Dico Tools
Similar to the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green


Jaded   Dico Tools
Dulled by surfeit; "the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes"


Jaded   Dico Tools
Exhausted; "my father''s words had left me jaded and depressed"- William Styron


Jadeite   Dico Tools
A hard green mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade; found principally in Burma


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Jadestone   Dico Tools
A semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite


Jade_green   Dico Tools
A light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green


Jade_vine   Dico Tools
Vigorous Philippine evergreen twining liana; grown for spectacular festoons of green flowers that resemble lobster claws


Jaeger   Dico Tools
Rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey


Jafar   Dico Tools
Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends


Jafar_Umar_Thalib   Dico Tools
Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends


Jaffa   Dico Tools
A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950


Jaffar   Dico Tools
Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends


Jaffar_Umar_Thalib   Dico Tools
Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends


Jaffa_orange   Dico Tools
Sweet almost seedless orange of Israel


Jafnea_semitosta   Dico Tools
The fruiting bodies of this discomycete have a firm texture and long retain their cup shape; the pale brown interior blends with the color of dead leaves


Jag   Dico Tools
A bout of drinking or drug taking


Jag   Dico Tools
A flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing


Jag   Dico Tools
A slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing


Jag   Dico Tools
A sharp projection on an edge or surface; "he clutched a jag of the rock"


Jag   Dico Tools
Cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge


Jagannath   Dico Tools
An avatar of Vishnu


Jagannatha   Dico Tools
An avatar of Vishnu


Jagatai   Dico Tools
A Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan)


Jagganath   Dico Tools
An avatar of Vishnu


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Jaggary   Dico Tools
Unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap


Jagged   Dico Tools
Having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs"


Jagged   Dico Tools
Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed


Jaggedly   Dico Tools
With a ragged and uneven appearance; "a long beard, raggedly cut"


Jaggedness   Dico Tools
Something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface


Jagger   Dico Tools
English rock star (born in 1943)


Jaggery   Dico Tools
Unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap


Jaggery_palm   Dico Tools
Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago


Jagghery   Dico Tools
Unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap


Jaggy   Dico Tools
Having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs"


Jaggy   Dico Tools
Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed


Jaghatai   Dico Tools
A Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan)


Jagua   Dico Tools
Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit


Jaguar   Dico Tools
A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis


Jaguarondi   Dico Tools
Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat


Jaguarundi   Dico Tools
Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat


Jaguarundi_cat   Dico Tools
Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat


Jahvey   Dico Tools
A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH


Jahweh   Dico Tools
A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH


Jail   Dico Tools
A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)


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Jail   Dico Tools
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"


Jailbird   Dico Tools
A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison


Jailbreak   Dico Tools
An escape from jail; "the breakout was carefully planned"


Jailed   Dico Tools
In captivity


Jailer   Dico Tools
Someone who guards prisoners


Jailhouse   Dico Tools
A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)


Jailor   Dico Tools
Someone who guards prisoners


Jail_cell   Dico Tools
A room where a prisoner is kept


Jail_delivery   Dico Tools
The use of force to liberate prisoners


Jain   Dico Tools
Relating to or characteristic of Jainism; "Jain gods"


Jainism   Dico Tools
Religion founded in the 6th century BC as a revolt against Hinduism; emphasizes asceticism and immortality and transmigration of the soul; denies existence of a perfect or supreme being


Jainism   Dico Tools
Sect founded in the 6th century BC as a revolt against Hinduism


Jainist   Dico Tools
A believer in Jainism


Jainist   Dico Tools
Relating to or characteristic of Jainism; "Jain gods"


Jaish-e-Muhammad   Dico Tools
A terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with Al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings


Jaish-i-Mohammed   Dico Tools
A terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with Al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings


Jai_alai   Dico Tools
A Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket


Jak   Dico Tools
Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of; its seeds are commonly roasted


Jakarta   Dico Tools
Capital and largest city of Indonesia; located on the island of Java; founded by the Dutch in 17th century


Jakes   Dico Tools
A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate


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Jakob-Creutzfeldt_disease   Dico Tools
Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control


Jakobson   Dico Tools
United States linguist (born in Russia) noted for his description of the universals of phonology (1896-1982)


Jakob_Behmen   Dico Tools
German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624)


Jakob_Bernoulli   Dico Tools
Swiss mathematician (1654-1705)


Jakob_Boehm   Dico Tools
German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624)


Jakob_Boehme   Dico Tools
German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624)


Jakob_Bohme   Dico Tools
German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624)


Jakob_Grimm   Dico Tools
The older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm''s Law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)


Jakob_Hermandszoon   Dico Tools
Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609)


Jakob_Liebmann_Beer   Dico Tools
German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864)


Jakob_Ludwig_Felix_Mendelssohn-Bartholdy   Dico Tools
German musician and Romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847)


Jakob_Ludwig_Karl_Grimm   Dico Tools
The older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm''s Law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)


Jalalabad   Dico Tools
A town in eastern Afghanistan (east of Kabul)


Jalapeno   Dico Tools
Hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico


Jalapeno   Dico Tools
Plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red


Jalapeno_pepper   Dico Tools
Hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico


Jalopy   Dico Tools
A car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus"


Jalousie   Dico Tools
A shutter made of angled slats


Jalousie   Dico Tools
A window with glass louvers


Jam   Dico Tools
Deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems


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Jam   Dico Tools
Preserve of crushed fruit


Jam   Dico Tools
A dense crowd of people


Jam   Dico Tools
Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"


Jam   Dico Tools
Interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station"


Jam   Dico Tools
Block passage through; "obstruct the path"


Jam   Dico Tools
Crush or bruise; "jam a toe"


Jam   Dico Tools
Crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"


Jam   Dico Tools
Get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed"


Jam   Dico Tools
Push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"


Jam   Dico Tools
Press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"


Jam-pawncked   Dico Tools
Filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater"


Jamaat_ul-Fuqra   Dico Tools
An Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North American and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attack other Muslims who they regard as heretics


Jamaica   Dico Tools
An island in the West Indies south of Cuba and west of Haiti


Jamaica   Dico Tools
A country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism


Jamaican   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Jamaica


Jamaican   Dico Tools
Of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or to its inhabitants; "Jamaican rum"; "the Jamaican Prime Minister"


Jamaican_capital   Dico Tools
Capital and largest city of Jamaica


Jamaican_cherry   Dico Tools
A fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves


Jamaican_dollar   Dico Tools
The basic unit of money in Jamaica


Jamaica_apple   Dico Tools
Large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft acid pulp


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Jamaica_bayberry   Dico Tools
West Indian tree; source of bay rum


Jamaica_caper_tree   Dico Tools
Shrub of southern Florida to West Indies


Jamaica_dogwood   Dico Tools
Small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons


Jamaica_honeysuckle   Dico Tools
West Indian passionflower; cultivated for its yellow edible fruit


Jamaica_quassia   Dico Tools
West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia


Jamaica_quassia   Dico Tools
Similar to the extract from Quassia amara


Jamaica_rum   Dico Tools
Heavy pungent rum from Jamaica


Jamaica_shorts   Dico Tools
(usually in the plural) short pants that end at the knee


Jamaica_sorrel   Dico Tools
East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber


Jamais_vu   Dico Tools
The experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; associated with certain types of epilepsy


Jamb   Dico Tools
Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame


Jambalaya   Dico Tools
Spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery


Jambeau   Dico Tools
Armor plate that protects legs below the knee


Jamberry   Dico Tools
Annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes


Jamberry   Dico Tools
Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes


Jambon   Dico Tools
Meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)


Jamboree   Dico Tools
A gay festivity


Jambos   Dico Tools
Used in some classifications for rose apples (Eugenia jambos)


Jambosa   Dico Tools
Tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit


James   Dico Tools
A New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle


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James   Dico Tools
A river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri


James   Dico Tools
A river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads


James   Dico Tools
(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament


James   Dico Tools
Writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)


James   Dico Tools
United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)


James   Dico Tools
United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)


Jamesonia   Dico Tools
Xerophytic ferns of South America


Jamestown   Dico Tools
A former village on the James River in Virginia north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607


Jamestown_weed   Dico Tools
Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits


James_A._Garfield   Dico Tools
20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)


James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler   Dico Tools
United States painter (1834-1903)


James_Abraham_Garfield   Dico Tools
20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)


James_Agee   Dico Tools
United States novelist (1909-1955)


James_Albert_Michener   Dico Tools
United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997)


James_Alfred_Van_Allen   Dico Tools
United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth''s magnetic field (born in 1914)


James_Arthur_Baldwin   Dico Tools
United States author who was an outspoken citic of racism (1924-1987)


James_Augustine_Aloysius_Joyce   Dico Tools
Influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941)


James_Augustus_Henry_Murray   Dico Tools
Scottish philologist and first lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)


James_Augustus_Murray   Dico Tools
Scottish philologist and first lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)


James_Baldwin   Dico Tools
United States author who was an outspoken citic of racism (1924-1987)


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James_Barrie   Dico Tools
Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)


James_Bay   Dico Tools
The southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario


James_Bernoulli   Dico Tools
Swiss mathematician (1654-1705)


James_Bond   Dico Tools
British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming


James_Boswell   Dico Tools
Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)


James_Bowie   Dico Tools
United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836)


James_Branch_Cabell   Dico Tools
United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958)


James_Buchanan   Dico Tools
15th President of the United States (1791-1868)


James_Buchanan_Brady   Dico Tools
United States financier noted for his love of diamonds and his extravagant lifestyle (1856-1917)


James_Butler_Hickock   Dico Tools
Frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876)


James_Byron_Dean   Dico Tools
United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)


James_Cagney   Dico Tools
United States film actor known for his portrayals of tough characters (1899-1986)


James_Clark_Ross   Dico Tools
British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)


James_Clerk_Maxwell   Dico Tools
Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)


James_Cleveland_Owens   Dico Tools
United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)


James_Cook   Dico Tools
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)


James_Crichton   Dico Tools
Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582)


James_Dean   Dico Tools
United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955)


James_Dewey_Watson   Dico Tools
United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)


James_Douglas_Morrison   Dico Tools
United States rock singer (1943-1971)


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James_Earl_Carter   Dico Tools
39th President of the United States (1924-)


James_Earl_Carter_Jr.   Dico Tools
39th President of the United States (1924-)


James_Edmund_Scripps   Dico Tools
United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908)


James_Edward_Meade   Dico Tools
English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907)


James_Fenimore_Cooper   Dico Tools
United States novelist noted for his stories of indians and the frontier life (1789-1851)


James_Francis_Thorpe   Dico Tools
Outstanding United States athlete (1888-1953)


James_Franck   Dico Tools
United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964)


James_Garfield   Dico Tools
20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)


James_George_Frazer   Dico Tools
English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941)


James_Grover_Thurber   Dico Tools
United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961)


James_Hargreaves   Dico Tools
English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778)


James_Harold_Doolittle   Dico Tools
United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993)


James_Harvey_Robinson   Dico Tools
United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)


James_Henry_Leigh_Hunt   Dico Tools
British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)


James_Hogg   Dico Tools
Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835)


James_Howard_Meredith   Dico Tools
United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)


James_Hutton   Dico Tools
Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797)


James_I   Dico Tools
The first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1925 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; son of Mary Queen of Scots who succeeded Elizabeth I; alienated Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)


James_II   Dico Tools
The last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)


James_IV   Dico Tools
A Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)


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James_Ives   Dico Tools
United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives'' (1824-1895)


James_Jerome_Hill   Dico Tools
United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)


James_John_Corbett   Dico Tools
United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933)


James_Joseph_Tunney   Dico Tools
United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Dempsey twice (1898-1978)


James_Joyce   Dico Tools
Influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941)


James_K._Polk   Dico Tools
11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)


James_Knox_Polk   Dico Tools
11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)


James_Langston_Hughes   Dico Tools
United States writer (1902-1967)


James_Leonard_Farmer   Dico Tools
United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)


James_Madison   Dico Tools
4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836)


James_Maitland_Stewart   Dico Tools
United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997)


James_Marshall_Hendrix   Dico Tools
United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970)


James_Mason   Dico Tools
English film actor (1909-1984)


James_Matthew_Barrie   Dico Tools
Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)


James_McKeen_Cattell   Dico Tools
American psychologist and editor (1860-1944)


James_Meredith   Dico Tools
United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)


James_Merritt_Ives   Dico Tools
United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives'' (1824-1895)


James_Michener   Dico Tools
United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997)


James_Mill   Dico Tools
Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham''s utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)


James_Monroe   Dico Tools
5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine (1758-1831)


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James_Murray   Dico Tools
Scottish philologist and first lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)


James_Naismith   Dico Tools
United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939)


James_Neville_Mason   Dico Tools
English film actor (1909-1984)


James_Parkinson   Dico Tools
English surgeon (1755-1824)


James_Polk   Dico Tools
11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849)


James_Prescott_Joule   Dico Tools
English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889)


James_Riddle_Hoffa   Dico Tools
United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975)


James_River   Dico Tools
A river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri


James_River   Dico Tools
A river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads


James_Scott_Connors   Dico Tools
Outstanding United States tennis player (born in 1952)


James_Thomas_Farrell   Dico Tools
United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979)


James_Thomas_Harris   Dico Tools
Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931)


James_Thurber   Dico Tools
United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961)


James_Tobin   Dico Tools
United States economist (1918-2002)


James_Usher   Dico Tools
Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)


James_Ussher   Dico Tools
Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)


James_Watson   Dico Tools
United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)


James_Watt   Dico Tools
Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)


James_Whitcomb_Riley   Dico Tools
United States poet (1849-1916)


James_William_Fulbright   Dico Tools
United States senator who is remembered for his creation of grants that fund exchange programs of teachers and students between the United States and other countries (1905-1995)


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James_Wilson   Dico Tools
American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798)


James_Wyatt   Dico Tools
English architect (1746-1813)


Jamison   Dico Tools
United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1944)


Jamjar   Dico Tools
A jar for holding jellies or preserves


Jammed   Dico Tools
Filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater"


Jammer   Dico Tools
A transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming


Jammies   Dico Tools
Loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers


Jamming   Dico Tools
Deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems


Jammu_and_Kashmir   Dico Tools
An area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India


Jampack   Dico Tools
Crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"


Jampan   Dico Tools
A kind of sedan chair used in India


Jampot   Dico Tools
A jar for holding jellies or preserves


Jam_session   Dico Tools
An impromptu jazz concert


Jan   Dico Tools
The first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice


Jane_Austen   Dico Tools
English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817)


Jane_Doe   Dico Tools
An unknown or fictitious woman who is a party to legal proceedings


Jane_Fonda   Dico Tools
United States film actress and daughter of Henry Fonda (born in 1937)


Jane_Goodall   Dico Tools
English zoologist noted for her studies of chimpanzees in the wild (born in 1934)


Jane_Jacobs   Dico Tools
United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)


Jane_Seymour   Dico Tools
Queen of England as the third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI (1509-1537)


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Jangle   Dico Tools
A metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs"


Jangle   Dico Tools
Make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket"


Jangling   Dico Tools
Like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs"


Jangly   Dico Tools
Like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs"


Janissary   Dico Tools
A Turkish soldier


Janissary   Dico Tools
A loyal supporter; "every politician has a following of janissaries"


Janis_Joplin   Dico Tools
United States singer who died of a drug overdose at the height of her popularity (1943-1970)


Janitor   Dico Tools
Someone employed to clean and maintain a building


Jansen   Dico Tools
Roman Catholic theologian (1585-1638)


Jansenism   Dico Tools
The Roman Catholic doctrine of Cornelis Jansen and his disciples; salvation is limited to those who are subject to supernatural determinism and the rest are assigned to perdition


Jansenist   Dico Tools
An advocate of Jansenism


January   Dico Tools
The first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice


January_1   Dico Tools
The first day of the year


January_1   Dico Tools
(Roman Catholic Church) a holy day of obligation


January_1   Dico Tools
(Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st


January_19   Dico Tools
Celebrated in southern United States


January_20   Dico Tools
The day designated for inauguration of the United States president


January_20   Dico Tools
A Christian holy day


January_6   Dico Tools
Twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus


Janus   Dico Tools
(Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head


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Janus-faced   Dico Tools
Having two faces--one looking to the future and one to the past; "Janus the two-faced god"


Janus-faced   Dico Tools
Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and


Janus-faced   Dico Tools
Having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy"


Jan_Amos_Komensky   Dico Tools
Czech educational reformer (1592-1670)


Jan_Christian_Smuts   Dico Tools
South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950)


Jan_Evangelista_Purkinje   Dico Tools
Bohemian physiologist remembered for his discovery of Purkinje cells and the Purkinje network (1787-1869)


Jan_Hendrix_Oort   Dico Tools
Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992)


Jan_Hus   Dico Tools
Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415)


Jan_Swammerdam   Dico Tools
Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680)


Jan_Tinbergen   Dico Tools
Dutch economist noted for his work in econometrics (1903-1994)


Jan_van_der_Meer   Dico Tools
Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675)


Jan_van_Eyck   Dico Tools
Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)


Jan_Vermeer   Dico Tools
Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675)


Jap   Dico Tools
A person of Japanese descent


Japan   Dico Tools
Lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient


Japan   Dico Tools
Lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer


Japan   Dico Tools
A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean


Japan   Dico Tools
A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building


Japan   Dico Tools
Coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan


Japanese   Dico Tools
The language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese people


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Japanese   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Japan


Japanese   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language; "the Japanese Emperoro"; "Japanese cars"


Japanese-speaking   Dico Tools
Able to communicate in Japanese


Japanese_allspice   Dico Tools
Deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers


Japanese_andromeda   Dico Tools
Broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers


Japanese_angelica_tree   Dico Tools
Deciduous clump-forming Asian shrub or small tree; adventive in the eastern United States


Japanese_apricot   Dico Tools
Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits


Japanese_Archipelago   Dico Tools
A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean


Japanese_banana   Dico Tools
Asiatic banana plant cultivated especially as a foliage plant in Japan


Japanese_barberry   Dico Tools
Compact deciduous shrub having persistent red berries; widespread in cultivation especially for hedges


Japanese_barnyard_millet   Dico Tools
Coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States


Japanese_beech   Dico Tools
A beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood


Japanese_beetle   Dico Tools
Small metallic green and brown beetle native to eastern Asia; serious plant pest in North America


Japanese_bittersweet   Dico Tools
Ornamental Asiatic vine with showy orange-yellow fruit with a scarlet aril; naturalized in North America


Japanese_black_pine   Dico Tools
Large Japanese ornamental having long needles in bunches of 2; widely planted in United States because of its resistance to salt and smog


Japanese_brome   Dico Tools
Grass of Mediterranean and temperate Asia


Japanese_capital   Dico Tools
The capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan


Japanese_carpet_grass   Dico Tools
Lawn grass common in the Philippines; grown also in United States


Japanese_cedar   Dico Tools
Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood


Japanese_cherry   Dico Tools
Ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in many varieties for its white blossoms


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Japanese_chess   Dico Tools
Grass of Mediterranean and temperate Asia


Japanese_chestnut   Dico Tools
A spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk


Japanese_clover   Dico Tools
An annual of tropical Asia naturalized in United States


Japanese_crab   Dico Tools
Crabmeat usually canned; from Japan


Japanese_deer   Dico Tools
Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers


Japanese_deity   Dico Tools
A deity worshipped by the Japanese


Japanese_flowering_cherry   Dico Tools
Ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in many varieties for its white blossoms


Japanese_flowering_cherry   Dico Tools
Ornamental tree with inedible fruit widely cultivated in many varieties for its pink blossoms


Japanese_honeysuckle   Dico Tools
An Asiatic trailing evergreen honeysuckle with half-evergreen leaves and fragrant white flowers turning yellow with age; has become a weed in some areas


Japanese_hop   Dico Tools
Ornamental vine native to eastern Asia; cultivated for its variegated foliage


Japanese_iris   Dico Tools
Iris native to Japan having large showy flowers


Japanese_Islands   Dico Tools
A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean


Japanese_ivy   Dico Tools
Asiatic vine with three-lobed leaves and purple berries


Japanese_lacquer_tree   Dico Tools
Small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained


Japanese_lawn_grass   Dico Tools
Lawn grass common in China and Japan; grown also in United States


Japanese_leaf   Dico Tools
Erect or partially climbing herb having large green or variegated leaves


Japanese_leek   Dico Tools
Asiatic onion with slender bulbs; used as early green onions


Japanese_lilac   Dico Tools
Lilac of northern China having ovate leaves and profuse early summer rose-lilac flowers


Japanese_lime   Dico Tools
Medium-sized tree of Japan used as an ornamental


Japanese_linden   Dico Tools
Medium-sized tree of Japan used as an ornamental


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Japanese_maple   Dico Tools
Leaves deeply incised and bright red in autumn; Japan


Japanese_maple   Dico Tools
Ornamental shrub or small tree of Japan and Korea with deeply incised leaves; cultivated in many varieties


Japanese_medlar   Dico Tools
Evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan


Japanese_millet   Dico Tools
Coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States


Japanese_monetary_unit   Dico Tools
Monetary unit in Japan


Japanese_morning_glory   Dico Tools
Annual Old World tropical climbing herb distinguished by wide color range and frilled or double flowers


Japanese_oak   Dico Tools
Small evergreen tree of China and Japan


Japanese_oak   Dico Tools
Oak with moderately light fine-grained wood; Japan


Japanese_oyster   Dico Tools
A large oyster native to Japan and introduced along the Pacific coast of the United States; a candidate for introduction in Chesapeake Bay


Japanese_pagoda_tree   Dico Tools
Handsome round-headed deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan


Japanese_persimmon   Dico Tools
Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit


Japanese_pink   Dico Tools
Very free-flowering variety distinguished by jagged-edged petals


Japanese_plum   Dico Tools
Yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies


Japanese_plum   Dico Tools
Evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan


Japanese_plum   Dico Tools
Small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor


Japanese_poinsettia   Dico Tools
Showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru


Japanese_privet   Dico Tools
Evergreen shrub of Japan and Korea having small dark leaves and flowers in loose panicles; related to but smaller than Chinese privet


Japanese_quince   Dico Tools
Deciduous thorny shrub native to China having red or white blossoms


Japanese_radish   Dico Tools
Radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked


Japanese_Red_Army   Dico Tools
A terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists; "in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Is


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Japanese_red_pine   Dico Tools
Pine native to Japan and Korea having a wide-spreading irregular crown when mature; grown as an ornamental


Japanese_rose   Dico Tools
Vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock


Japanese_snowbell   Dico Tools
Shrubby tree of China and Japan


Japanese_spaniel   Dico Tools
Breed of toy dogs originating in Japan having a silky black-and-white or red-and-white coat


Japanese_spurge   Dico Tools
Slow-growing Japanese evergreen subshrub having terminal spikes of white flowers; grown as a ground cover


Japanese_stranglehold   Dico Tools
A wrestling hold in which the opponent''s arms are crossed in front of his own neck to exert pressure on his windpipe


Japanese_sumac   Dico Tools
Small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained


Japanese_table_pine   Dico Tools
Pine native to Japan and Korea having a wide-spreading irregular crown when mature; grown as an ornamental


Japanese_tree_lilac   Dico Tools
Small tree of Japan having narrow pointed leaves and creamy-white flowers


Japanese_umbrella_pine   Dico Tools
Tall evergreen having a symmetrical spreading crown and needles growing in whorls that resemble umbrellas at ends of twigs


Japanese_varnish_tree   Dico Tools
Deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods


Japanese_varnish_tree   Dico Tools
Small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained


Japanese_wistaria   Dico Tools
Having flowers of pink to mauve or violet-blue


Japanese_yew   Dico Tools
Shrubby hardy evergreen of China and Japan having lustrous dark green foliage; cultivated in the eastern United States


Japan_allspice   Dico Tools
Deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers


Japan_bittersweet   Dico Tools
Ornamental Asiatic vine with showy orange-yellow fruit with a scarlet aril; naturalized in North America


Japan_cedar   Dico Tools
Tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood


Japan_clover   Dico Tools
An annual of tropical Asia naturalized in United States


Japan_current   Dico Tools
A warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean


Japan_tallow   Dico Tools
A yellow wax obtained from sumac berries; used in polishes


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Japan_Trench   Dico Tools
A depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean northeast of Japan that reaches depths of 30,000 feet


Japan_wax   Dico Tools
A yellow wax obtained from sumac berries; used in polishes


Jape   Dico Tools
A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at hisown jest"; "even a schoolboy''s jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"


Japheth   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) son of Noah


Japonica   Dico Tools
Deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms


Japonica   Dico Tools
Greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant roselike flowers; cultivated in many varieties


Jap_clover   Dico Tools
An annual of tropical Asia naturalized in United States


Jar   Dico Tools
A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles


Jar   Dico Tools
A sudden impact; "the door closed with a jolt"


Jar   Dico Tools
The quantity contained in a jar; "he drank a jar of beer"


Jar   Dico Tools
Place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"


Jar   Dico Tools
Affect in a disagreeable way; "This play jarred the audience"


Jar   Dico Tools
Move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion


Jar   Dico Tools
Shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"


Jar   Dico Tools
Be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash"


Jarful   Dico Tools
The quantity contained in a jar; "he drank a jar of beer"


Jargon   Dico Tools
Specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject


Jargon   Dico Tools
A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don''t speak our lingo"


Jargon   Dico Tools
A colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon


Jargoon   Dico Tools
A colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon


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Jaroslav_Hasek   Dico Tools
Czech author of novels and short stories (1883-1923)


Jarrell   Dico Tools
United States poet (1914-1965)


Jarring   Dico Tools
Making or causing a harsh and irritating sound; "the jarring noise of the iron gate scraping on the sidewalk"


Jarring   Dico Tools
Characterized by rough motion; "a bumpy ride"


Jarringly   Dico Tools
In a manner that jars and irritates; "the piano was jarringly out of tune"


Jarvik_artificial_heart   Dico Tools
A kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success


Jarvik_heart   Dico Tools
A kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success


Jar_against   Dico Tools
Collide violently with an obstacle; "I ran into the telephone pole"


Jasmine   Dico Tools
Any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia


Jasmine_tobacco   Dico Tools
South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers


Jasminum   Dico Tools
Shrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old World: jasmine; jessamine


Jasminum_mesnyi   Dico Tools
Evergreen rambling yellow-flowered shrub of western China


Jasminum_nudiflorum   Dico Tools
Deciduous rambling shrub widely cultivated for its winter-blooming yellow flowers


Jasminum_officinale   Dico Tools
Tall-climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea


Jasminum_sambac   Dico Tools
East Indian evergreen vine cultivated for its profuse fragrant white flowers


Jason   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) the husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece


Jasper   Dico Tools
An opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone


Jaspers   Dico Tools
German psychiatrist (1883-1969)


Jasper_Johns   Dico Tools
United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930)


Jassid   Dico Tools
A variety of leafhopper


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Jassidae   Dico Tools
Family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications


Jat   Dico Tools
A member of an Indo-European people widely scattered throughout the northwest of the Indian subcontinent and consisting of Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs


Jati   Dico Tools
(Hinduism) a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India; a special characteristic is often the exclusive occupation of its male members (such as barber or potter)


Jatropha   Dico Tools
A mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae


Jatropha_curcus   Dico Tools
Small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities


Jatropha_stimulosus   Dico Tools
A stinging herb of tropical America


Jatropha_urens   Dico Tools
A stinging herb of tropical America


Jaundice   Dico Tools
A sharp and bitter manner


Jaundice   Dico Tools
Yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia


Jaundice   Dico Tools
Affect with, or as if with, jaundice


Jaundice   Dico Tools
Distort adversely; "Jealousy had jaundiced his judgment"


Jaundiced   Dico Tools
Showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste; "looked with a jaundiced eye on the growth of regimentation"; "takes a jaundiced view of societies and clubs"


Jaundiced   Dico Tools
Affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc


Jaundice_of_the_newborn   Dico Tools
Yellowish appearance in newborn infants; usually subsides spontaneously


Jaunt   Dico Tools
A journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"


Jaunt   Dico Tools
Make a trip for pleasure


Jauntily   Dico Tools
In a jaunty fashionable manner; "his hat sat jauntily on his full brown hair"


Jauntiness   Dico Tools
A breezy liveliness; "a delightful breeziness of manner"


Jauntiness   Dico Tools
Stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance


Jaunting_car   Dico Tools
An open two-wheeled one-horse cart formerly widely used in Ireland


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Jaunty   Dico Tools
Having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist"


Jaunty   Dico Tools
Marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"


Jaunty_car   Dico Tools
An open two-wheeled one-horse cart formerly widely used in Ireland


Jaun_Gris   Dico Tools
Spanish cubist painter (1887-1927)


Java   Dico Tools
A simple platform-independent object-oriented programming language used for writing applets that are downloaded from the World Wide Web by a client and run on the client''s machine


Java   Dico Tools
A beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; "he ordered a cup of coffee"


Java   Dico Tools
An island in Indonesia south of Borneo; one of the world''s most densely populated regions


Javan   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Java


Javan   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants; "Javanese temples"; "Javanese dialects"


Javanese   Dico Tools
The Indonesian language spoken on Java


Javanese   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Java


Javanese   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants; "Javanese temples"; "Javanese dialects"


Javanthropus   Dico Tools
Former genus of primitive man; now Homo soloensis: comprises Solo man


Java_finch   Dico Tools
Small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields


Java_man   Dico Tools
Fossil remains found in Java; formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus


Java_man   Dico Tools
A type of primitive man who lived in Java in the Paleolithic Age


Java_olives   Dico Tools
Large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food


Java_pepper   Dico Tools
Tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits


Java_sparrow   Dico Tools
Small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields


Javelin   Dico Tools
A spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events


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Javelin   Dico Tools
An athletic competition in which a javelin is thrown as far as possible


Javelina   Dico Tools
Dark gray peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States


Javelle_water   Dico Tools
An aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite


Javel_water   Dico Tools
An aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite


Jaw   Dico Tools
Holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object


Jaw   Dico Tools
The part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth


Jaw   Dico Tools
The bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth


Jaw   Dico Tools
Censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger''s car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"


Jaw   Dico Tools
Talk incessantly and tiresomely


Jaw   Dico Tools
Talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"


Jaw   Dico Tools
Chew (food); "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don''t swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass"


Jawaharlal_Nehru   Dico Tools
Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule; was the first prime minister of the Republic of India from 1947 to 1964 (1889-1964)


Jawan   Dico Tools
(India) a private soldier or male constable


Jawbone   Dico Tools
The lower jawbone in vertebrates; it is hinged to open the mouth


Jawbone   Dico Tools
Talk idly or casually and in a friendly way


Jawbreaker   Dico Tools
A word that is hard to pronounce


Jawbreaker   Dico Tools
A large round hard candy


Jawfish   Dico Tools
Small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes


Jawless   Dico Tools
Having no jaw


Jawless_fish   Dico Tools
Eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms


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Jawless_vertebrate   Dico Tools
Eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms


Jaws   Dico Tools
Holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object


Jaws_of_Life   Dico Tools
Hydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside


Jay   Dico Tools
Crested largely blue bird


Jay   Dico Tools
United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829)


Jaybird   Dico Tools
Common jay of eastern North America; bright blue with grey breast


Jayshullah   Dico Tools
An indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999


Jaywalk   Dico Tools
Cross the road at a red light


Jaywalker   Dico Tools
A reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally


Jay_Cooke   Dico Tools
United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)


Jay_Gould   Dico Tools
United States financier who gained control of the Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted to corner the gold market (1836-1892)


Jazz   Dico Tools
A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands


Jazz   Dico Tools
A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles


Jazz   Dico Tools
Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that''s a lot of wind"; "don''t give me any of that jazz"


Jazz   Dico Tools
Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"


Jazz   Dico Tools
Play something in the style of jazz


Jazzman   Dico Tools
A musician who plays or composes jazz music


Jazzy   Dico Tools
(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display


Jazzy   Dico Tools
Resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm)


Jazz_around   Dico Tools
Wander aimlessly in search of pleasure


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Jazz_band   Dico Tools
A small band of jazz musicians


Jazz_festival   Dico Tools
A festival that features performances by jazz artists


Jazz_group   Dico Tools
A small band of jazz musicians


Jazz_musician   Dico Tools
A musician who plays or composes jazz music


Jazz_up   Dico Tools
E.g.,make more interesting or lively; "juice up a party"; "pep up your paper"


JDAM   Dico Tools
A pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs


Jealous   Dico Tools
Showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another''s advantages; "he was never covetous before he met her"; "jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions"; "envious of their art collection"


Jealous   Dico Tools
Suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover"


Jealously   Dico Tools
With jealousy; in an envious manner; "he looked at his friend''s new car jealously"


Jealously   Dico Tools
With jealousy; "he guarded his privacy jealously"


Jealousy   Dico Tools
Zealous vigilance; "cherish their official political freedom with fierce jealousy"-Paul Blanshard


Jealousy   Dico Tools
A feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)


Jean   Dico Tools
A coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric


Jean   Dico Tools
(usually plural) close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear


Jean-Baptiste_Poquelin   Dico Tools
French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673)


Jean-Claude_Duvalier   Dico Tools
Son and successor of Francois Duvalier as president of Haiti; he was overthrown by a mass uprising in 1986 (born in 1951)


Jean-Frederic_Joliot   Dico Tools
French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie''s assistant and who worked with Marie Curie''s daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)


Jean-Frederic_Joliot-Curie   Dico Tools
French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie''s assistant and who worked with Marie Curie''s daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)


Jean-Jacques_Rousseau   Dico Tools
French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)


Jean-Louis_Lebris_de_Kerouac   Dico Tools
United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969)


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Jean-Paul_Sartre   Dico Tools
French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980)


Jean-Philippe_Rameau   Dico Tools
French composer of operas whose writings laid the foundation for the modern theory of harmony (1683-1764)


Jeannette_Rankin   Dico Tools
Leader in the women''s suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973)


Jeanne_Antoinette_Poisson   Dico Tools
French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764)


Jeanne_d'Arc   Dico Tools
French heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English and to have Charles VII crowned king; she was later tried for heresy and burned at the stake (1412-1431)


Jean_Anouilh   Dico Tools
French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987)


Jean_Antoine_Watteau   Dico Tools
French painter (1684-1721)


Jean_Arp   Dico Tools
Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966)


Jean_Auguste_Dominique_Ingres   Dico Tools
French classical painter (1780-1867)


Jean_Baptiste_Camille_Corot   Dico Tools
French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875)


Jean_Baptiste_de_Lamarck   Dico Tools
French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)


Jean_Baptiste_Donatien_de_Vimeur   Dico Tools
French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)


Jean_Baptiste_Joseph_Fourier   Dico Tools
French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830)


Jean_Baptiste_Lully   Dico Tools
French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687)


Jean_Baptiste_Racine   Dico Tools
French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)


Jean_Bernard_Leon_Foucault   Dico Tools
French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868)


Jean_Bernoulli   Dico Tools
Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)


Jean_Caulvin   Dico Tools
Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)


Jean_Cauvin   Dico Tools
Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)


Jean_Chauvin   Dico Tools
Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)


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Jean_Cocteau   Dico Tools
French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)


Jean_de_La_Fontaine   Dico Tools
French writer who collected Aesop''s fables and published them (1621-1695)


Jean_Edouard_Vuillard   Dico Tools
French painter (1868-1940)


Jean_Francois_Champollion   Dico Tools
Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)


Jean_Francois_Millet   Dico Tools
French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)


Jean_Genet   Dico Tools
French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)


Jean_Giraudoux   Dico Tools
French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944)


Jean_Harlow   Dico Tools
United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937)


Jean_Honore_Fragonard   Dico Tools
French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806)


Jean_Laffite   Dico Tools
French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)


Jean_Lafitte   Dico Tools
French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)


Jean_Louis_Charles_Garnier   Dico Tools
French architect (1825-1898)


Jean_Louis_Rodolphe_Agassiz   Dico Tools
United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)


Jean_Luc_Godard   Dico Tools
French film maker influenced by surrealism; early work explored the documentary use of film; noted for innovative techniques (born in 1930)


Jean_Martin_Charcot   Dico Tools
French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893)


Jean_Monnet   Dico Tools
French economist who advocated a Common Market in Europe (1888-1979)


Jean_Nicholas_Arthur_Rimbaud   Dico Tools
French poet whose work influenced the surrealists (1854-1891)


Jean_Paul_Marat   Dico Tools
French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793)


Jean_Piaget   Dico Tools
Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980)


Jean_Racine   Dico Tools
French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)


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Jean_Sibelius   Dico Tools
Finnish composer (1865-1957)


Jebel_Musa   Dico Tools
A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar; one of the Pillars of Hercules


Jed'dah   Dico Tools
Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca


Jeddah   Dico Tools
Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca


Jeep   Dico Tools
A car suitable for traveling over rough terrain


Jeer   Dico Tools
Showing your contempt by derision


Jeer   Dico Tools
Laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"


Jeerer   Dico Tools
Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision


Jeering   Dico Tools
Showing your contempt by derision


Jeering   Dico Tools
Abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward'' and `sissy''"


Jeeringly   Dico Tools
In a disrespectful jeering manner


Jeffers   Dico Tools
United States poet who wrote about California (1887-1962)


Jefferson   Dico Tools
3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826)


Jeffersonian   Dico Tools
Relating to or characteristic of Thomas Jefferson or his principles or theories; "Jeffersonian democracy"


Jefferson_City   Dico Tools
Capital of the state of Missouri; located in central Missouri on the Missouri river


Jefferson_Davis   Dico Tools
IAmerican statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War (1808-1889)


Jefferson_Davis'_Birthday   Dico Tools
Celebrated in southern United States


Jeffrey's_pine   Dico Tools
Tall symmetrical pine of western North America having long blue-green needles in bunches of 3 and elongated cones on spreading somewhat pendulous branches; sometimes classified as a variety of ponderosa pine


Jeffrey_pine   Dico Tools
Tall symmetrical pine of western North America having long blue-green needles in bunches of 3 and elongated cones on spreading somewhat pendulous branches; sometimes classified as a variety of ponderosa pine


Jehad   Dico Tools
A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal


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Jehad   Dico Tools
A holy war waged by Muslims against infidels


Jehovah   Dico Tools
Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God


Jehovah   Dico Tools
A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH


Jehovah's_Witness   Dico Tools
Believer in imminent approach of the millennium; practitioner of active evangelism


Jehovah's_Witnesses   Dico Tools
Protestant denomination founded in the United States by Charles Taze Russell in 1884


Jejunal_artery   Dico Tools
Branch of the superior mesenteric artery that supplies the jejunum


Jejune   Dico Tools
Lacking interest or significance; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"


Jejune   Dico Tools
Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"


Jejune   Dico Tools
Lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"


Jejunely   Dico Tools
In an immature manner; "his teenage son still behaves very immaturely"


Jejuneness   Dico Tools
Quality of lacking nutritive value


Jejuneness   Dico Tools
The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated


Jejuneness   Dico Tools
Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life


Jejunitis   Dico Tools
Inflammation of the jejunum of the small intestine


Jejunity   Dico Tools
Quality of lacking nutritive value


Jejunity   Dico Tools
The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated


Jejunoileitis   Dico Tools
Inflammation of the jejunum and the ileum of the small intestine


Jejunostomy   Dico Tools
Surgical creation of an opening between the jejunum and the anterior abdominal wall; will allow artificial feeding


Jejunum   Dico Tools
The part of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum


Jekyll_and_Hyde   Dico Tools
Someone with two personalities - one good and one evil


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Jell   Dico Tools
Become gelatinous; "the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme"


Jell-O   Dico Tools
Fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder


Jellaba   Dico Tools
A loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa


Jelled   Dico Tools
Congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling; "in Georgia they serve congealed salads"


Jellied   Dico Tools
Congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling; "in Georgia they serve congealed salads"


Jellify   Dico Tools
Make into jelly; "jellify a liquid"


Jellify   Dico Tools
Become jelly; "The sauce jellified"


Jello   Dico Tools
Fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder


Jelly   Dico Tools
A preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit


Jelly   Dico Tools
An edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods


Jelly   Dico Tools
A substance having the consistency of semi-solid foods


Jelly   Dico Tools
Make into jelly; "jellify a liquid"


Jellyfish   Dico Tools
Any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans


Jellyfish   Dico Tools
Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles


Jellyleaf   Dico Tools
Herb widely distributed in tropics and subtropics used for forage and medicinally as a demulcent and having a fine soft bast stronger than jute; sometimes an aggressive weed


Jellylike   Dico Tools
Thick like gelatin


Jellyroll   Dico Tools
Thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake


Jelly_bean   Dico Tools
Sugar-glazed jellied candy


Jelly_doughnut   Dico Tools
A raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam


Jelly_egg   Dico Tools
Sugar-glazed jellied candy


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Jelly_fungus   Dico Tools
Any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh


Jelly_Roll_Morton   Dico Tools
United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941)


JEM   Dico Tools
A terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with Al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings


Jemaah_Islamiyah   Dico Tools
A clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia


Jemmy   Dico Tools
A short crowbar; "in England they call a jimmy and jemmy"


Jena   Dico Tools
The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians


Jenghiz_Khan   Dico Tools
Mongolian Emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227)


Jenner   Dico Tools
English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823)


Jennet   Dico Tools
Female donkey


Jenny   Dico Tools
Female donkey


Jenny   Dico Tools
United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)


Jenny_ass   Dico Tools
Female donkey


Jenny_Lind   Dico Tools
Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887)


Jenny_wren   Dico Tools
And of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects


Jensen   Dico Tools
Modernistic Danish writer (1873-1950)


Jens_Otto_Harry_Jespersen   Dico Tools
Danish linguist (1860-1943)


Jeopardise   Dico Tools
Pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops"


Jeopardize   Dico Tools
Put at risk; "I will stake my good reputation for this"


Jeopardize   Dico Tools
Pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops"


Jeopardy   Dico Tools
A source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"


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Jerboa   Dico Tools
Mouselike jumping rodent


Jerboa_kangaroo   Dico Tools
Brush-tailed rat kangaroo


Jerboa_rat   Dico Tools
Large Australian rat with hind legs adapted for leaping


Jeremiad   Dico Tools
A long and mournful complaint; "a jeremiad against any form of government"


Jeremiah   Dico Tools
A book in the Old Testament containing the oracles of the prophet Jeremiah


Jeremiah   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) an Israelite prophet who is remembered for his angry lamentations (jeremiads) about the wickedness of his people (circa 626-587 BC)


Jeremy_Bentham   Dico Tools
English philosopher and jurist; founder of utilitarianism (1748-1831)


Jerevan   Dico Tools
Capital of Armenia


Jerez   Dico Tools
A city in southwestern Spain that is famous for making sherry


Jerez_de_la_Frontera   Dico Tools
A city in southwestern Spain that is famous for making sherry


Jericho   Dico Tools
A village in Jordan near the north end of the Dead Sea; in the Old Testament it was the first place taken by the Israelites under Joshua as the entered the Promised Land


Jerk   Dico Tools
A sudden abrupt pull


Jerk   Dico Tools
An abrupt spasmodic movement


Jerk   Dico Tools
A dull stupid fatuous person


Jerk   Dico Tools
(mechanics) the rate of change of velocity


Jerk   Dico Tools
Make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion; "his face is twitching"


Jerk   Dico Tools
Throw or toss with a quick motion; "flick a piece of paper across the table"; "jerk his head"


Jerk   Dico Tools
Pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle and jerked the door open"


Jerk   Dico Tools
Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked"


Jerk   Dico Tools
Move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions; "The patient''s legs were jerkings"


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Jerk-off   Dico Tools
Terms of abuse for a masturbator


Jerked_meat   Dico Tools
Meat cut in strips and dried in the sun


Jerker   Dico Tools
Someone who gives a strong sudden pull


Jerkily   Dico Tools
With jerking motions; "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat"


Jerkily   Dico Tools
With spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner"


Jerkin   Dico Tools
A tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times


Jerkiness   Dico Tools
The quality of being spasmodic and irregular


Jerking   Dico Tools
An abrupt spasmodic movement


Jerking   Dico Tools
Not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat"


Jerking_off   Dico Tools
Slang terms for masturbation


Jerkwater   Dico Tools
Small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"


Jerky   Dico Tools
Meat cut in strips and dried in the sun


Jerky   Dico Tools
Not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat"


Jerk_off   Dico Tools
Get sexual gratification through self-stimulation


Jeroboam   Dico Tools
A large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon)


Jeroboam   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC)


Jeroboam_I   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC)


Jerome   Dico Tools
(Roman Catholic Church) one of the great fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420)


Jerome_David_Kern   Dico Tools
United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945)


Jerome_David_Salinger   Dico Tools
United States writer (born 1919)


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Jerome_Kern   Dico Tools
United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945)


Jerome_Robbins   Dico Tools
United States choreographer who brought human emotion to classical ballet and spirited reality to Broadway musicals (1918-1998)


Jerom_Bos   Dico Tools
Dutch painter (1450-1516)


Jerry   Dico Tools
Offensive terms for a person of German descent


Jerry-builder   Dico Tools
Someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit


Jerry-building   Dico Tools
Construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit


Jerry-built   Dico Tools
Of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"


Jerry_Lee_Lewis   Dico Tools
United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)


Jersey   Dico Tools
Breed from the island of Jersey


Jersey   Dico Tools
A slightly elastic machine-knit fabric


Jersey   Dico Tools
A close-fitting pullover shirt


Jersey_City   Dico Tools
A city in northeastern New Jersey (opposite Manhattan)


Jersey_elm   Dico Tools
A variety of the English elm with erect branches and broader leaves


Jersey_fern   Dico Tools
Small short-lived fern of Central and South America


Jersey_knapweed   Dico Tools
A variety of knapweed


Jersey_pine   Dico Tools
Common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of 2


Jerusalem   Dico Tools
Capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom


Jerusalem_artichoke   Dico Tools
Sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips


Jerusalem_artichoke   Dico Tools
Tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers


Jerusalem_artichoke   Dico Tools
Edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke


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Jerusalem_artichoke_sunflower   Dico Tools
Tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers


Jerusalem_cherry   Dico Tools
Small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit


Jerusalem_cricket   Dico Tools
Large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States


Jerusalem_cross   Dico Tools
A cross with equal arms, each terminating in a small crossbar


Jerusalem_oak   Dico Tools
Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America


Jerusalem_sage   Dico Tools
A spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers


Jerusalem_thorn   Dico Tools
East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu


Jerusalem_thorn   Dico Tools
Large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in souther


Jerusalem_thorn   Dico Tools
Spiny tree having dark red edible fruits


Jerusalem_thorn   Dico Tools
Thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit


Jerusalem_Warriors   Dico Tools
Ethnic Turkish Sunni terrorists who are linked with the Turkish Hizballah; killed a United States Air Force sergeant in 1991


Jespersen   Dico Tools
Danish linguist (1860-1943)


Jessamine   Dico Tools
Tall-climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea


Jesse_Jackson   Dico Tools
United States civil rights leader who led a national anti-discrimination campaign and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)


Jesse_James   Dico Tools
United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)


Jesse_Louis_Jackson   Dico Tools
United States civil rights leader who led a national anti-discrimination campaign and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)


Jesse_Owens   Dico Tools
United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)


Jessica_Lucy_Mitford   Dico Tools
United States writer (born in England) who wrote on American culture (1917-1996)


Jessica_Mitford   Dico Tools
United States writer (born in England) who wrote on American culture (1917-1996)


Jessye_Norman   Dico Tools
United States operatic soprano (born in 1945)


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Jest   Dico Tools
Activity characterized by good humor


Jest   Dico Tools
A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at hisown jest"; "even a schoolboy''s jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"


Jest   Dico Tools
Act in a funny or teasing way


Jest   Dico Tools
Tell a joke; speak humorously; "He often jokes even when he appears serious"


Jester   Dico Tools
A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages


Jesting   Dico Tools
Characterized by jokes and good humor


Jestingly   Dico Tools
In jest; "I asked him jokingly whether he thought he could drive the Calcutta-Peshawar express"


Jest_at   Dico Tools
Subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"


Jesuit   Dico Tools
A member of the Jesuit order


Jesuit   Dico Tools
Having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism; "Jesuitical education"


Jesuit's_bark   Dico Tools
Medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine


Jesuitic   Dico Tools
Having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism; "Jesuitical education"


Jesuitical   Dico Tools
Having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism; "Jesuitical education"


Jesuitism   Dico Tools
The theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic)


Jesuitry   Dico Tools
The theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic)


Jesuits'_nut   Dico Tools
A variety of water chestnut


Jesuit_order   Dico Tools
A Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen


Jesus   Dico Tools
A teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)


Jesus_Christ   Dico Tools
A teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)


Jesus_of_Nazareth   Dico Tools
A teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)


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Jet   Dico Tools
An artificially produced flow of water


Jet   Dico Tools
An airplane powered by one or more jet engines


Jet   Dico Tools
Street names for ketamine


Jet   Dico Tools
The occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)


Jet   Dico Tools
A hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewellery or ornamentation


Jet   Dico Tools
Issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building"


Jet   Dico Tools
Fly a jet plane


Jet   Dico Tools
Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal


Jet-black   Dico Tools
Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal


Jet-propelled   Dico Tools
Propelled by (or as if propelled by) a jet engine


Jet-propelled_plane   Dico Tools
An airplane powered by one or more jet engines


Jeth   Dico Tools
The third month of the Hindu calendar


Jetliner   Dico Tools
A large jet plane that carries passengers


Jets   Dico Tools
Atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward


Jetsam   Dico Tools
The floating wreckage of a ship


Jetsam   Dico Tools
The part of a ship''s equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm


Jetting   Dico Tools
Propelled violently in a usually narrow stream


Jettison   Dico Tools
Throw as from an airplane


Jettison   Dico Tools
Throw away, of something encumbering


Jetty   Dico Tools
A protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away


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Jet_black   Dico Tools
A very dark black


Jet_bridge   Dico Tools
An extendible bridge for loading passengers onto large commerical airplanes; provides protected access to the plane from the gate


Jet_engine   Dico Tools
A gas turbine produces a stream of hot gas that propels a jet plane by reaction propulsion


Jet_lag   Dico Tools
Fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body''s normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel


Jet_plane   Dico Tools
An airplane powered by one or more jet engines


Jet_propulsion   Dico Tools
Propulsion by means of the discharge of a jet of fluid toward the rear


Jet_set   Dico Tools
A set of rich and fashionable people who travel widely for pleasure


Jet_stream   Dico Tools
A high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere; has important effects of the formation of weather fronts


Jeune_fille   Dico Tools
A girl or young woman who is unmarried


Jeu_d'esprit   Dico Tools
A witty comment or writing


Jevons   Dico Tools
English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882)


Jew   Dico Tools
A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties


Jew's-ear   Dico Tools
Widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood


Jew's-ears   Dico Tools
Widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood


Jew's_harp   Dico Tools
A small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity


Jew-baiter   Dico Tools
Someone who hates and would persecute Jews


Jew-bush   Dico Tools
Low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties


Jewbush   Dico Tools
Low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties


Jewel   Dico Tools
A precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry


Jewel   Dico Tools
A person who is a brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry


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Jewel   Dico Tools
Adorn or decorate with precious stones; "jeweled dresses"


Jeweled   Dico Tools
Covered with beads or jewels or sequins


Jeweler   Dico Tools
Someone in the business of selling jewelry


Jeweler   Dico Tools
Someone who makes jewelry


Jeweler's_glass   Dico Tools
An optical instrument used by jewelers; has one or more lenses and is used to view features not readily seen


Jeweler's_loupe   Dico Tools
Small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists


Jewelled   Dico Tools
Covered with beads or jewels or sequins


Jewelled_headdress   Dico Tools
A headdress adorned with jewels


Jeweller   Dico Tools
Someone in the business of selling jewelry


Jeweller   Dico Tools
Someone who makes jewelry


Jewellery   Dico Tools
An adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)


Jewelry   Dico Tools
An adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)


Jewelry_dealer   Dico Tools
A firm that sells and buys jewelry


Jewelry_maker   Dico Tools
Someone who makes jewelry


Jewelry_store   Dico Tools
A firm that sells and buys jewelry


Jewels-of-opar   Dico Tools
Erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere


Jewelweed   Dico Tools
North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil


Jewel_casket   Dico Tools
Small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables


Jewel_orchid   Dico Tools
Any of several delicate Asiatic orchids grown especially for their velvety leaves with metallic white or gold veining


Jewess   Dico Tools
A woman who is a Jew


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Jewfish   Dico Tools
Large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales


Jewfish   Dico Tools
Large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre


Jewish   Dico Tools
Of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion; "He is Jewish"; "a Jewish wedding"


Jewish-Orthodox   Dico Tools
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism; "Orthodox Judaism"


Jewish_calendar   Dico Tools
(Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years


Jewish_calendar_month   Dico Tools
A month in the Jewish calendar


Jewish_holy_day   Dico Tools
A religious holiday for Jews


Jewish_New_Year   Dico Tools
(Judaism) a solemn Jewish feast day celebrated on the 1st or 1st and 2nd of Tishri; noted for the blowing of the shofar


Jewish_Orthodoxy   Dico Tools
Jews who strictly observe the Mosaic Law as interpreted in the Talmud


Jewish_religion   Dico Tools
Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud


Jewish_rye   Dico Tools
(Judaism) bread made with rye flour; usually contains caraway seeds


Jewish_rye_bread   Dico Tools
(Judaism) bread made with rye flour; usually contains caraway seeds


Jewison   Dico Tools
Canadian filmmaker (born in 1926)


Jewry   Dico Tools
Jews collectively


Jews'_harp   Dico Tools
A small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity


Jew_bush   Dico Tools
Low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties


Jezebel   Dico Tools
A shameless impudent scheming woman


Jezebel   Dico Tools
Wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC)


Je_ne_sais_quois   Dico Tools
Something indescribable


JFK   Dico Tools
35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)


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JHVH   Dico Tools
A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH


JI   Dico Tools
A clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia


Jiao   Dico Tools
10 jiao equal 1 yuan


Jib   Dico Tools
Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)


Jib   Dico Tools
Shift from one side of the ship to the other; "The sail jibbed wildly"


Jib   Dico Tools
Refuse to comply


Jibboom   Dico Tools
A spar that extends the bowsprit


Jibe   Dico Tools
An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead''"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"


Jibe   Dico Tools
Shift from one side of the ship to the other; "The sail jibbed wildly"


Jibe   Dico Tools
Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don''t agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect''s fingerprints don''t match those on the gun"


Jidda   Dico Tools
Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca


Jiddah   Dico Tools
Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca


Jiffy   Dico Tools
A very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I''d do it in a flash"


Jig   Dico Tools
Any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping


Jig   Dico Tools
Music in three-four time for dancing a jig


Jig   Dico Tools
Dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions


Jigaboo   Dico Tools
(ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"


Jigger   Dico Tools
Larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation


Jigger   Dico Tools
Any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl


Jigger   Dico Tools
A small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey


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Jiggered   Dico Tools
(British informal expletive) surprised; "Well I''m jiggered!"


Jiggermast   Dico Tools
Any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl


Jiggery-pokery   Dico Tools
Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way


Jiggle   Dico Tools
A slight irregular shaking motion


Jiggle   Dico Tools
Move to and fro; "Don''t jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!"


Jigsaw   Dico Tools
Fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines


Jigsaw   Dico Tools
A portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut


Jigsaw_puzzle   Dico Tools
A puzzle that requires you to reassemble a picture that has been mounted on a stiff base and cut into interlocking pieces


Jihad   Dico Tools
A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal


Jihad   Dico Tools
A holy war waged by Muslims against infidels


Jihadi   Dico Tools
Of or relating to a jihad


Jihadist   Dico Tools
A Muslim who is involved in a jihad


Jillions   Dico Tools
A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)


Jilt   Dico Tools
A woman who jilts a lover


Jilt   Dico Tools
Cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly; "jilt a lover or a bride"


Jilted   Dico Tools
Rebuffed (by a lover) without warning; "jilted at the altar"


Jimdandy   Dico Tools
Something excellent of its kind; "the bike was a jimdandy"


Jimdandy   Dico Tools
Someone excellent of their kind; "he''s a jimdandy of a soldier"


Jimenez   Dico Tools
Spanish lyric poet (1881-1958)


Jimenez_de_Cisneros   Dico Tools
Prelate who was the confessor of Isabella I and who was later appointed Grand Inquisitor (1436-1517)


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Jimhickey   Dico Tools
Something excellent of its kind; "the bike was a jimdandy"


Jimhickey   Dico Tools
Someone excellent of their kind; "he''s a jimdandy of a soldier"


Jimi_Hendrix   Dico Tools
United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970)


Jimmies   Dico Tools
Bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream


Jimmy   Dico Tools
A short crowbar; "in England they call a jimmy and jemmy"


Jimmy   Dico Tools
To move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"


Jimmy_Cagney   Dico Tools
United States film actor known for his portrayals of tough characters (1899-1986)


Jimmy_Carter   Dico Tools
39th President of the United States (1924-)


Jimmy_Conors   Dico Tools
Outstanding United States tennis player (born in 1952)


Jimmy_Doolittle   Dico Tools
United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993)


Jimmy_Durante   Dico Tools
United States comedian remembered for his large nose and hoarse voice (1893-1980)


Jimmy_Hoffa   Dico Tools
United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975)


Jimmy_Stewart   Dico Tools
United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997)


Jimsonweed   Dico Tools
Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits


Jimson_weed   Dico Tools
Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits


Jim_Bowie   Dico Tools
United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836)


Jim_Corbett   Dico Tools
United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933)


Jim_crow   Dico Tools
A crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails


Jim_Crow   Dico Tools
Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites


Jim_Henson   Dico Tools
United States puppeteer who created a troupe of puppet characters (1936-1990)


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Jim_Morrison   Dico Tools
United States rock singer (1943-1971)


Jim_Thorpe   Dico Tools
Outstanding United States athlete (1888-1953)


Jinghis_Khan   Dico Tools
Mongolian Emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227)


Jinghpaw   Dico Tools
A Kachinic language


Jinghpo   Dico Tools
A Kachinic language


Jingle   Dico Tools
A comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"


Jingle   Dico Tools
A metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs"


Jingle   Dico Tools
Make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket"


Jingle-jangle   Dico Tools
Make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket"


Jingling   Dico Tools
Having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells; "jingling sleigh bells"


Jingly   Dico Tools
Having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells; "jingling sleigh bells"


Jingo   Dico Tools
An extreme bellicose nationalist


Jingoism   Dico Tools
Fanatical patriotism


Jingoism   Dico Tools
An appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions


Jingoist   Dico Tools
An extreme bellicose nationalist


Jingoistic   Dico Tools
Fanatically patriotic


Jinja   Dico Tools
A city in Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria


Jinks   Dico Tools
Noisy and mischievous merrymaking


Jinnah   Dico Tools
Indian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948)


Jinnee   Dico Tools
(Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals


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Jinni   Dico Tools
(Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals


Jinrikisha   Dico Tools
A small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person


Jinx   Dico Tools
An evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"


Jinx   Dico Tools
A person believed to bring bad luck to those around him


Jinx   Dico Tools
Foredoom to failure; "This project is jinxed!"


Jinx   Dico Tools
Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something


Jinxed   Dico Tools
(usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune


Jiqui   Dico Tools
Cuban timber tree with hard wood very resistant to moisture


Jird   Dico Tools
Gerbil of northern Africa


Jirga   Dico Tools
A Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders; "most criminal cases are handled by a tribal Jirga rather than by laws or police"


Jirrbal   Dico Tools
A language of Australian aborigines


Jitney   Dico Tools
A vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work"


Jitter   Dico Tools
Small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources


Jitterbug   Dico Tools
A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s


Jitterbug   Dico Tools
Do the jitterbug


Jitteriness   Dico Tools
The anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters


Jittering   Dico Tools
Undergoing small rapid variations


Jitters   Dico Tools
Extreme nervousness


Jittery   Dico Tools
Being in a tense state


Jiujitsu   Dico Tools
A method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker''s own weight and strength


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Jive   Dico Tools
A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz


Jive   Dico Tools
Dance to jive music; dance the jive


Jnd   Dico Tools
(psychophysics) the difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected


Jnr   Dico Tools
A son who has the same first name as his father


Joachim   Dico Tools
Hungarian violinist and composer (1831-1907)


Joan_Crawford   Dico Tools
United States film actress (1908-1977)


Joan_Didion   Dico Tools
United States writer (born in 1834)


Joan_Miro   Dico Tools
Spanish surrealist painter (1893-1983)


Joan_of_Arc   Dico Tools
French heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English and to have Charles VII crowned king; she was later tried for heresy and burned at the stake (1412-1431)


Joan_Sutherland   Dico Tools
Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926)


Joao_Pessoa   Dico Tools
A city in northeastern Brazil near the Atlantic Ocean north of Recife


Job   Dico Tools
A damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"


Job   Dico Tools
The performance of a piece of work; "she did an outstanding job as Ophelia"; "he gave it up as a bad job"


Job   Dico Tools
The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he''s not in my line of business"


Job   Dico Tools
The responsibility to do something; "it is their job to print the truth"


Job   Dico Tools
A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city''s loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the sampl


Job   Dico Tools
A crime (especially a robbery); "the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis"


Job   Dico Tools
A workplace; as in the expression "on the job";


Job   Dico Tools
An object worked on; a result produced by working; "he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right"


Job   Dico Tools
A book in the Old Testament containing Job''s pleas to God about his afflictions and God''s reply


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Job   Dico Tools
(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit


Job   Dico Tools
Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing


Job   Dico Tools
A Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him


Job   Dico Tools
A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"


Job   Dico Tools
Invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"


Job   Dico Tools
Work occasionally; "As a student I jobbed during the semester breaks"


Job   Dico Tools
Arranged for contracted work to be done by others


Job   Dico Tools
Profit privately from public office and official business


Job's_comforter   Dico Tools
Someone whose comfort is actually discouraging


Job's_tears   Dico Tools
Hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads


Job-control_language   Dico Tools
A problem-oriented language used to describe job requirements to an operating system


Job-oriented_terminal   Dico Tools
A terminal designed for a particular application


Jobber   Dico Tools
Someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers


Jobbery   Dico Tools
Corruptness among public officials


Jobcentre   Dico Tools
A government office in a town where information about available jobs is displayed and where unemployment benefits are administered


Jobholder   Dico Tools
An employee who has a regular job


Jobless   Dico Tools
Not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"


Job_action   Dico Tools
A temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands


Job_application   Dico Tools
An application for a job


Job_candidate   Dico Tools
An applicant who is being considered for a job


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Job_control   Dico Tools
A program that is called to prepare each job to be run


Job_description   Dico Tools
Description of the responsibilities associated with a given job


Job_interview   Dico Tools
An interview to determine whether an applicant is suitable for a position of employment


Job_lot   Dico Tools
A miscellaneous collection of things sold together


Jocasta   Dico Tools
(Greek mythology) queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son Oedipus


Jock   Dico Tools
A support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise


Jock   Dico Tools
A person trained to compete in sports


Jockey   Dico Tools
Someone employed to ride horses in horse races


Jockey   Dico Tools
An operator of some vehicle or machine or apparatus; "he''s a truck jockey"; "a computer jockey"; "a disc jockey"


Jockey   Dico Tools
Ride a race-horse as a professional jockey


Jockey   Dico Tools
Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit


Jockey   Dico Tools
Compete (for an advantage or a position)


Jockey_cap   Dico Tools
A cap with a bill


Jockey_club   Dico Tools
A club to promote and regulate horse racing


Jockey_shorts   Dico Tools
Short tight-fitting underpants (trade name Jockey)


Jockstrap   Dico Tools
A support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise


Jock_itch   Dico Tools
Fungal infection of the groin (most common in men)


Jocose   Dico Tools
Characterized by jokes and good humor


Jocosely   Dico Tools
With humor; "they tried to deal with this painful subject jocularly"


Jocoseness   Dico Tools
The trait of merry joking


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Jocosity   Dico Tools
The trait of merry joking


Jocosity   Dico Tools
Fun characterized by humor


Jocote   Dico Tools
Common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit


Jocular   Dico Tools
Characterized by jokes and good humor


Jocular   Dico Tools
With humor; "they tried to deal with this painful subject jocularly"


Jocularity   Dico Tools
Activity characterized by good humor


Jocularity   Dico Tools
Fun characterized by humor


Jocularity   Dico Tools
A feeling facetious merriment


Jocund   Dico Tools
Full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"


Jocundity   Dico Tools
A feeling facetious merriment


Jodhpur   Dico Tools
Flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots


Jodhpur   Dico Tools
A short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side


Jodhpur_boot   Dico Tools
A short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side


Jodhpur_breeches   Dico Tools
Flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots


Jodhpur_shoe   Dico Tools
A short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side


Joe-Pye_weed   Dico Tools
North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of small pinkish or purple flower heads


Joe-Pye_weed   Dico Tools
North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple


Joel   Dico Tools
An Old Testament book telling Joel''s prophecies


Joel   Dico Tools
A Hebrew minor prophet


Joewood   Dico Tools
West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood


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Joe_Bloggs   Dico Tools
A hypothetical average man


Joe_Blow   Dico Tools
A hypothetical average man


Joe_Clark   Dico Tools
Canadian politician who served as prime minister (1939-)


Joe_DiMaggio   Dico Tools
United States professional baseball player noted for his batting ability (1914-1999)


Joe_Louis   Dico Tools
United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight campion for 12 years (1914-1981)


Joffre   Dico Tools
French field marshal who commanded the Allied armies in France during World War II (1852-1931)


Joffrey   Dico Tools
United States choreographer (1930-1988)


Jog   Dico Tools
A slight push or shake


Jog   Dico Tools
A slow pace of running


Jog   Dico Tools
A sharp change in direction; "there was a jog in the road"


Jog   Dico Tools
Stimulate to remember; "jog my memory"


Jog   Dico Tools
Give a slight push to


Jog   Dico Tools
Run at a moderately swift pace


Jog   Dico Tools
Run for exercise; "jog along the canal"


Jog   Dico Tools
Even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing


Jog   Dico Tools
Continue talking or writing in a desultory manner; "This novel rambles on and jogs"


Jogger   Dico Tools
Someone who runs a steady slow pace (usually for exercise)


Jogging   Dico Tools
Running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise


Joggle   Dico Tools
A slight irregular shaking motion


Joggle   Dico Tools
A fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together


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Joggle   Dico Tools
Fasten or join with a joggle


Joggle   Dico Tools
Move to and fro; "Don''t jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!"


Jog_trot   Dico Tools
An easy gait of a horse; midway between a walk and a trot


Johannesburg   Dico Tools
City in the northeastern part of South Africa near Pretoria; commercial center for diamond and gold industries


Johannes_Brahms   Dico Tools
German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music (1833-1897)


Johannes_Diderik_van_der_Waals   Dico Tools
Dutch physicist (1837-1923)


Johannes_Eckhart   Dico Tools
German theologian and mystic (1260-1327)


Johannes_Evangelista_Purkinje   Dico Tools
Bohemian physiologist remembered for his discovery of Purkinje cells and the Purkinje network (1787-1869)


Johannes_Gutenberg   Dico Tools
German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)


Johannes_Kepler   Dico Tools
German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630)


Johannes_Peter_Muller   Dico Tools
German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)


Johannes_van_der_Waals   Dico Tools
Dutch physicist (1837-1923)


Johannes_Vilhelm_Jensen   Dico Tools
Modernistic Danish writer (1873-1950)


Johann_Bernoulli   Dico Tools
Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)


Johann_Christoph_Friedrich_von_Schiller   Dico Tools
German romantic writer (1759-1805)


Johann_Friedrich_Herbart   Dico Tools
German philosopher (1776-1841)


Johann_Gottfried_von_Herder   Dico Tools
German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803)


Johann_Gutenberg   Dico Tools
German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)


Johann_Joachim_Winckelmann   Dico Tools
German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father of archaeology (1717-1768)


Johann_Ludwig_Uhland   Dico Tools
German romantic poet (1787-1862)


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Johann_Mendel   Dico Tools
Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)


Johann_Muller   Dico Tools
German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)


Johann_Sebastian_Bach   Dico Tools
German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of Western music (1685-1750)


Johann_Strauss   Dico Tools
Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849)


Johann_Strauss   Dico Tools
Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king'' (1825-1899)


Johann_Winckelmann   Dico Tools
German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father of archaeology (1717-1768)


Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe   Dico Tools
German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)


Johan_August_Strindberg   Dico Tools
Swedish dramatist and novelist (1849-1912)


Johan_Julius_Christian_Sibelius   Dico Tools
Finnish composer (1865-1957)


Johan_Kepler   Dico Tools
German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion (1571-1630)


John   Dico Tools
A room equipped with toilet facilities


John   Dico Tools
The last of the four Gospels in the New Testament


John   Dico Tools
A prostitute''s customer


John   Dico Tools
(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation


John   Dico Tools
Youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)


John's_cabbage   Dico Tools
Showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States


Johnny   Dico Tools
`johnny'' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `grayback'' derived from their gray Confederate uniforms


Johnny-jump-up   Dico Tools
Common violet of the eastern United States with large pale blue or purple flowers resembling pansies


Johnny-jump-up   Dico Tools
A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived


Johnnycake   Dico Tools
Cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)


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Johnny_Appleseed   Dico Tools
United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)


Johnny_cake   Dico Tools
Cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)


Johnny_Reb   Dico Tools
`johnny'' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `grayback'' derived from their gray Confederate uniforms


Johns   Dico Tools
United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930)


Johnson   Dico Tools
17th President of the United States; was elected Vice President and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)


Johnson   Dico Tools
36th President of the United States; was elected Vice President and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)


Johnson   Dico Tools
English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)


Johnson_City   Dico Tools
A town in northeastern Tennessee


Johnson_grass   Dico Tools
Tall perennial grass that spreads by creeping rhizomes and is grown for fodder; naturalized in southern United States where it is a serious pest on cultivated land


Johnston   Dico Tools
Confederate general in the American Civil War; led the Confederate troops in the West (1807-1891)


Johns_Hopkins   Dico Tools
A university in Baltimore


Johns_Hopkins   Dico Tools
United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)


John_Adams   Dico Tools
2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)


John_Addington_Symonds   Dico Tools
English writer (1840-1893)


John_Amos_Comenius   Dico Tools
Czech educational reformer (1592-1670)


John_Anthony_Ciardi   Dico Tools
United States poet and critic (1916-1986)


John_Augustus_Roebling   Dico Tools
United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869)


John_Bach_McMaster   Dico Tools
United States historian who wrote a nine volume history of the people of the United States (1852-1932)


John_Bardeen   Dico Tools
United States physicist who won the Nobel Prize for physics twice (1908-1991)


John_Barleycorn   Dico Tools
Distilled rather than fermented


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John_Barrington_Wain   Dico Tools
English writer (1925-1994)


John_Barrymore   Dico Tools
United States actor; son of Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Barrymore (1882-1942)


John_Barth   Dico Tools
United States novelist (born in 1930)


John_Bartlett   Dico Tools
United States publisher and editor who compiled a book of familiar quotations (1820-1905)


John_Bernoulli   Dico Tools
Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)


John_Berry_Hobbs   Dico Tools
Notable English cricketer (1882-1963)


John_Birks_Gillespie   Dico Tools
United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993)


John_Broadus_Watson   Dico Tools
United States psychologist considered the founder of behavioristic psychology (1878-1958)


John_Brown   Dico Tools
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper''s Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)


John_Bull   Dico Tools
A man of English descent


John_Bunyan   Dico Tools
English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim''s Progress (1628-1688)


John_Burdon_Sanderson_Haldane   Dico Tools
Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)


John_Burgoyne   Dico Tools
British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the battle of Saratoga in 1777 (1722-1792)


John_C._Fremont   Dico Tools
United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and northwest (1813-1890)


John_Cabot   Dico Tools
Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)


John_Cage   Dico Tools
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)


John_Calvin   Dico Tools
Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)


John_Chapman   Dico Tools
United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)


John_Charles_Fremont   Dico Tools
United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and northwest (1813-1890)


John_Cheever   Dico Tools
United States writer of novels and short stories (1912-1982)


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John_Chrysostom   Dico Tools
(Roman Catholic Church) a Church Father who was a great preacher and bishop of Constantinople; a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-407)


John_Churchill   Dico Tools
English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722)


John_Ciardi   Dico Tools
United States poet and critic (1916-1986)


John_Constable   Dico Tools
English landscape painter (1776-1837)


John_Copley   Dico Tools
American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815)


John_D._Rockefeller   Dico Tools
United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)


John_Dalton   Dico Tools
English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)


John_Davis   Dico Tools
English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)


John_Davison_Rockefeller   Dico Tools
United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)


John_Davys   Dico Tools
English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)


John_Deere   Dico Tools
United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)


John_Dewey   Dico Tools
United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)


John_Doe   Dico Tools
An unknown or fictitious man who is a party to legal proceedings


John_Doe   Dico Tools
A hypothetical average man


John_Donald_Budge   Dico Tools
United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)


John_Donne   Dico Tools
English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)


John_dory   Dico Tools
European dory


John_Dos_Passos   Dico Tools
United States novelist remembered for his portrayal of life in the United States (1896-1970)


John_Dowland   Dico Tools
English lutenist and composer of songs for the lute (1563-1626)


John_Drew   Dico Tools
United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)


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John_Dryden   Dico Tools
The outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700)


John_Duns_Scotus   Dico Tools
Scottish theologian who was very influential in the Middle Ages (1265-1308)


John_Eccles   Dico Tools
Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997)


John_Edgar_Hoover   Dico Tools
United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)


John_Edward_Masefield   Dico Tools
English poet (1878-1967)


John_Endecott   Dico Tools
Born in England; in 1629 he became the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665)


John_Endicott   Dico Tools
Born in England; in 1629 he became the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665)


John_Ernst_Steinbeck   Dico Tools
United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968)


John_Fitzgerald_Kennedy   Dico Tools
35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)


John_Fletcher   Dico Tools
Prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625)


John_Florio   Dico Tools
English lexicographer remembered for his Italian and English dictionary (1553-1625)


John_Ford   Dico Tools
United States film maker (1896-1973)


John_Foster_Dulles   Dico Tools
United States diplomat who (as Secretary of State) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR by providing aid to American allies (1888-1959)


John_Galbraith   Dico Tools
United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908)


John_Galsworthy   Dico Tools
English novelist (1867-1933)


John_Glenn   Dico Tools
Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-)


John_Greenleaf_Whittier   Dico Tools
United States poet best known for his nostalgic poems about New England (1807-1892)


John_Griffith_Chaney   Dico Tools
United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)


John_Haldane   Dico Tools
Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)


John_Hancock   Dico Tools
A person''s own signature


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John_Hancock   Dico Tools
American revolutionary patriot who was president of the Continental Congress; was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence (1737-1793)


John_Hanning_Speke   Dico Tools
English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864)


John_Harvard   Dico Tools
American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638)


John_Hasbrouck_Van_Vleck   Dico Tools
United States physicist (1899-1980)


John_Heming   Dico Tools
English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare''s plays (1556-1630)


John_Hemminge   Dico Tools
English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare''s plays (1556-1630)


John_Henry   Dico Tools
Hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill


John_Henry_Newman   Dico Tools
English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford Movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)


John_Henry_O'Hara   Dico Tools
United States writer (1905-1970)


John_Herschel   Dico Tools
English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)


John_Herschel_Glenn_Jr.   Dico Tools
Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-)


John_Hope_Franklin   Dico Tools
United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915)


John_Howard_Northrop   Dico Tools
United States biochemist (1891-1987)


John_Hoyer_Updike   Dico Tools
United States author (born 1932)


John_Huss   Dico Tools
Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415)


John_Huston   Dico Tools
United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987)


John_Irving   Dico Tools
United States writer of darkly humorous novels (born in 1942)


John_Jacob_Astor   Dico Tools
United States capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (1763-1848)


John_James_Audubon   Dico Tools
United States ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (1785-1851)


John_James_Osborne   Dico Tools
English playwright (1929-1994)


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John_James_Rickard_Macleod   Dico Tools
Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935)


John_Jay   Dico Tools
United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829)


John_Joseph_McGraw   Dico Tools
United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934)


John_Joseph_Pershing   Dico Tools
United States general who commanded the American forces in Europe during World War I (1860-1948)


John_Keats   Dico Tools
Englishman and Romantic poet (1795-1821)


John_Keble   Dico Tools
English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford Movement (1792-1866)


John_Kenneth_Galbraith   Dico Tools
United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908)


John_Knox   Dico Tools
Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572)


John_L._H._Down   Dico Tools
English physician who first described Down''s syndrome (1828-1896)


John_L._Lewis   Dico Tools
United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969)


John_Lackland   Dico Tools
Youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)


John_Lennon   Dico Tools
English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)


John_le_Carre   Dico Tools
English writer of novels of espionage (born in 1931)


John_Llewelly_Lewis   Dico Tools
United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969)


John_Locke   Dico Tools
English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)


John_Luther_Jones   Dico Tools
United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)


John_Lyly   Dico Tools
English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606)


John_M._Browning   Dico Tools
United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)


John_Macleod   Dico Tools
Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935)


John_Major   Dico Tools
British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)


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John_Marquand   Dico Tools
United States writer who created the Japanese detective Mr. Moto and wrote other novels as well (1893-1960)


John_Marshall   Dico Tools
United States jurist; as chief justice of the Supreme Court he established the principles of United States constitutional law (1755-1835)


John_Marstan   Dico Tools
English playwright (1575-1634)


John_Masefield   Dico Tools
English poet (1878-1967)


John_Maynard_Keynes   Dico Tools
English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946)


John_McCormick   Dico Tools
United States operatic tenor (born in Ireland) (1884-1945)


John_McGraw   Dico Tools
United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934)


John_Mercer   Dico Tools
British maker of printed calico cloth who invented mercerizing (1791-1866)


John_Merven_Carrere   Dico Tools
United States architect who with his partner Thomas Hastings designed many important public buildings (1858-1911)


John_Mill   Dico Tools
English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)


John_Millington_Synge   Dico Tools
Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909)


John_Milton   Dico Tools
English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity''s fall from grace (1608-1674)


John_Milton_Cage_Jr.   Dico Tools
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)


John_Mitchell   Dico Tools
United States labor leader; president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898 to 1908 (1870-1919)


John_Moses_Browning   Dico Tools
United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)


John_Muir   Dico Tools
United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914)


John_Napier   Dico Tools
Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617)


John_Orley_Allen_Tate   Dico Tools
United States poet and critic (1899-1979)


John_Osborne   Dico Tools
English playwright (1929-1994)


John_Paul_I   Dico Tools
The first Pope to assume a double name; he reigned for only 34 days (1912-1978)


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John_Paul_II   Dico Tools
The first Pope born in Poland (born in 1920)


John_Paul_Jones   Dico Tools
American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)


John_Philip_Marquand   Dico Tools
United States writer who created the Japanese detective Mr. Moto and wrote other novels as well (1893-1960)


John_Philip_Sousa   Dico Tools
A United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932)


John_Pierpont_Morgan   Dico Tools
United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913)


John_Quincy_Adams   Dico Tools
6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)


John_R._Major   Dico Tools
British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)


John_Reed   Dico Tools
United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)


John_Robinson_Jeffers   Dico Tools
United States poet who wrote about California (1887-1962)


John_Rock   Dico Tools
United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)


John_Roebling   Dico Tools
United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869)


John_Ronald_Reuel_Tolkien   Dico Tools
British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973)


John_Ross   Dico Tools
Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)


John_Rowlands   Dico Tools
Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)


John_Roy_Major   Dico Tools
British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)


John_Rupert_Firth   Dico Tools
English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)


John_Ruskin   Dico Tools
British art critic (1819-1900)


John_Scopes   Dico Tools
Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)


John_Scott_Haldane   Dico Tools
Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)


John_Simmons_Barth   Dico Tools
United States novelist (born in 1930)


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John_Singer_Sargent   Dico Tools
United States painter (born in Italy) known for his society portraits (1856-1925)


John_Singleton_Copley   Dico Tools
American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815)


John_Smith   Dico Tools
English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)


John_Speke   Dico Tools
English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864)


John_Steinbeck   Dico Tools
United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968)


John_Stuart_Mill   Dico Tools
English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)


John_the_Baptist   Dico Tools
(New Testament) a preacher and hermit and forerunner of Jesus (whom he baptized); was beheaded by Herod at the request of Salome


John_the_Divine   Dico Tools
(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation


John_the_Evangelist   Dico Tools
(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation


John_Thomas_Scopes   Dico Tools
Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)


John_Tradescant   Dico Tools
English botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638)


John_Trumbull   Dico Tools
American satirical poet (1750-1831)


John_Trumbull   Dico Tools
American painter of historical scenes (1756-1843)


John_Tuzo_Wilson   Dico Tools
Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993)


John_Tyler   Dico Tools
Elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862)


John_Tyndall   Dico Tools
British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound through the atmosphere; he was the first person to explain why the daylight sky is bl


John_Uhler   Dico Tools
United States film actor (born in 1925)


John_Updike   Dico Tools
United States author (born 1932)


John_Vanbrugh   Dico Tools
English architect (1664-1726)


John_Van_Vleck   Dico Tools
United States physicist (1899-1980)


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John_Venn   Dico Tools
English logician who introduced Venn diagrams (1834-1923)


John_von_Neumann   Dico Tools
United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957)


John_Wain   Dico Tools
English writer (1925-1994)


John_Walker   Dico Tools
New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952)


John_Wanamaker   Dico Tools
United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922)


John_Wayne   Dico Tools
United States film actor who played tough heroes (1907-1979)


John_Webster   Dico Tools
English playwright (1580-1625)


John_Wesley   Dico Tools
English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791)


John_Wickliffe   Dico Tools
English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)


John_Wiclif   Dico Tools
English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)


John_Wilkes   Dico Tools
English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797)


John_Wilkes_Booth   Dico Tools
United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)


John_William_Strutt   Dico Tools
English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919)


John_Witherspoon   Dico Tools
American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794)


John_Wyclif   Dico Tools
English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)


John_Wycliffe   Dico Tools
English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)


Joie_de_vivre   Dico Tools
A keen enjoyment of living


Join   Dico Tools
A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B"


Join   Dico Tools
The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made


Join   Dico Tools
Make contact or come together; "The two roads join here"


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Join   Dico Tools
Cause to become joined or linked; "join these two parts so that they fit together"


Join   Dico Tools
Become part of; become a member of a group or organization; "He joined the Communist Party as a young man"


Join   Dico Tools
Come into the company of; "She joined him for a drink"


Join   Dico Tools
Be or become joined or united or linked; "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport"


Joined   Dico Tools
Connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks


Joined   Dico Tools
Of or relating to two people who are married to each other


Joiner   Dico Tools
A woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood


Joiner   Dico Tools
A person who likes to join groups


Joinery   Dico Tools
The craft of a joiner


Joinery   Dico Tools
Fine woodwork done by a joiner


Joining   Dico Tools
The act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet"


Joint   Dico Tools
Marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking


Joint   Dico Tools
Junction by which parts or objects are joined together


Joint   Dico Tools
A disreputable place of entertainment


Joint   Dico Tools
(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if the articulation allows motion)


Joint   Dico Tools
A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion


Joint   Dico Tools
The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made


Joint   Dico Tools
Separate (meat) at the joint


Joint   Dico Tools
Fasten with a joint


Joint   Dico Tools
Provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood"


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Joint   Dico Tools
Fit as if by joints; "The boards fit neatly"


Joint   Dico Tools
Involving both houses of a legislature; "a joint session of Congress"


Joint   Dico Tools
United or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners"


Joint   Dico Tools
Affecting or involving two or more; "joint income-tax return"; "joint ownership"


Joint-stock_company   Dico Tools
A company (usually unincorporated) which has the capital of its members pooled in a common fund; transferable shares represent ownership interest; shareholders are legally liable for all debts of the company


Jointed   Dico Tools
Having joints or jointed segments;


Jointed_charlock   Dico Tools
Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits


Jointed_rush   Dico Tools
Rush of Australia


Jointer   Dico Tools
A long carpenter''s plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together


Jointer_plane   Dico Tools
A long carpenter''s plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together


Jointing_plane   Dico Tools
A long carpenter''s plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together


Jointly   Dico Tools
In conjunction with; combined; "Our salaries put together couldn''t pay for the damage"; "we couldn`t pay for the damages with all out salaries put together"


Jointly   Dico Tools
In collaboration or cooperation; "this paper was written jointly"


Jointure   Dico Tools
The act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"


Jointure   Dico Tools
(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower


Jointworm   Dico Tools
Larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains


Joint_author   Dico Tools
A writer who collaborates with others in writing something


Joint_Chiefs   Dico Tools
The executive agency that advises the President on military questions; composed of the chiefs of the Army and Navy and Air Force and the Commandant of the Marine Corps


Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff   Dico Tools
The executive agency that advises the President on military questions; composed of the chiefs of the Army and Navy and Air Force and the Commandant of the Marine Corps


Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition   Dico Tools
A pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs


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Joint_fir   Dico Tools
Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds


Joint_hinge   Dico Tools
A hinge with two long straps; one strap is fastened to the surface of a moving part (e.g., a door or lid) and the other is fastened to the adjacent stationary frame


Joint_probability   Dico Tools
The probability of two events occurring together


Joint_resolution   Dico Tools
A resolution passed by both houses of Congress which becomes legally binding when signed by the chief executive (or passed over the executive''s veto)


Joint_return   Dico Tools
A return filed by a husband and wife


Joint_snake   Dico Tools
Snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail


Joint_venture   Dico Tools
A venture by a partnership or conglomerate designed to share risk or expertise; "a joint venture between the film companies to produce TV shows"


Join_battle   Dico Tools
Engage in a conflict; "The battle over health care reform was joined"


Join_forces   Dico Tools
Work together on a common enterprise of project; "The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well"; "We joined forces with another research group"


Joist   Dico Tools
Beam used to support floors or roofs


Joke   Dico Tools
A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement


Joke   Dico Tools
Activity characterized by good humor


Joke   Dico Tools
A triviality not to be taken seriously; "I regarded his campaign for mayor as a joke"


Joke   Dico Tools
A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at hisown jest"; "even a schoolboy''s jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"


Joke   Dico Tools
Act in a funny or teasing way


Joke   Dico Tools
Tell a joke; speak humorously; "He often jokes even when he appears serious"


Joker   Dico Tools
A person who enjoys telling or playing jokes


Joker   Dico Tools
A person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway"


Jokester   Dico Tools
A person who enjoys telling or playing jokes


Joking   Dico Tools
Characterized by jokes and good humor


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Jokingly   Dico Tools
Not seriously; "I meant it facetiously"


Jokingly   Dico Tools
In jest; "I asked him jokingly whether he thought he could drive the Calcutta-Peshawar express"


Joliet   Dico Tools
French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)


Joliot   Dico Tools
French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie''s assistant and who worked with Marie Curie''s daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)


Joliot-Curie   Dico Tools
French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie''s assistant and who worked with Marie Curie''s daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)


Joliot-Curie   Dico Tools
French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956)


Jolliet   Dico Tools
French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)


Jollification   Dico Tools
A boisterous celebration; a merry festivity


Jollify   Dico Tools
Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let''s whoop it up--the boss is gone!"


Jollity   Dico Tools
Feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor


Jolly   Dico Tools
A yawl used by a ship''s sailors for general work


Jolly   Dico Tools
A happy party


Jolly   Dico Tools
Be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"


Jolly   Dico Tools
Full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"


Jolly   Dico Tools
Used as an intensifier (`jolly'' is used informally in Britain); "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"


Jolly_along   Dico Tools
Cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful; "She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee"


Jolly_boat   Dico Tools
A yawl used by a ship''s sailors for general work


Jolly_Roger   Dico Tools
A black flag bearing a white skull and crossbones; indicates a pirate ship


Jolly_up   Dico Tools
Cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful; "She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee"


Jolson   Dico Tools
United States singer (born in Russia) who appeared in the first full-length talking film (1886-1950)


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Jolt   Dico Tools
An abrupt spasmodic movement


Jolt   Dico Tools
A sudden impact; "the door closed with a jolt"


Jolt   Dico Tools
Disturb (someone''s) composure; "The audience was jolted by the play"


Jolt   Dico Tools
Move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion


Jolted   Dico Tools
Disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock; "retrieved his named from her jolted memory"; "the accident left her badly shaken"


Jolted   Dico Tools
Bumped or shaken jerkily; "the jolted passengers"


Jolting   Dico Tools
Characterized by rough motion; "a bumpy ride"


Jolty   Dico Tools
Characterized by rough motion; "a bumpy ride"


Jomada_I   Dico Tools
The fifth month of the Islamic calendar


Jomada_II   Dico Tools
The sixth month of the Islamic calendar


Jomo_Kenyata   Dico Tools
Kenyan statesman and the first president of independent Kenya (1893-1978)


Jonah   Dico Tools
A book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale


Jonah   Dico Tools
A person believed to bring bad luck to those around him


Jonah   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to become a prophet so God caused a great storm to throw him overboard from a ship; he was saved by being swallowed by a whale that vomited him out onto dry land


Jonah_crab   Dico Tools
Large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America


Jonas_Edward_Salk   Dico Tools
United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914)


Jonas_Salk   Dico Tools
United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914)


Jonathan   Dico Tools
Red late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw


Jonathan_Edwards   Dico Tools
American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758)


Jonathan_Swift   Dico Tools
An English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)


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Jonathan_Trumbull   Dico Tools
American Revolutionary leader who as governor of Connecticut provided supplies for the Continental Army (1710-1785)


Jones   Dico Tools
English phonetician (1881-1967)


Jones   Dico Tools
One of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)


Jones   Dico Tools
American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792)


Jones   Dico Tools
United States golfer (1902-1971)


Jones   Dico Tools
United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)


Jones   Dico Tools
United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)


Jones'_penstemon   Dico Tools
Low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near tips of stems; Nevada to Utah


Jonesboro   Dico Tools
A town in northeast Arkansas


Jong   Dico Tools
United States writer (born in 1942)


Jongleur   Dico Tools
A singer of folk songs


Jonquil   Dico Tools
Widely cultivated ornamental plant native to southern Europe but naturalized elsewhere having fragrant yellow or white clustered flowers


Jonquil   Dico Tools
Often used colloquially for any yellow daffodil


Jonson   Dico Tools
English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637)


Jons_Jakob_Berzelius   Dico Tools
Swedish chemist who discovered three new elements and determined the atomic weights of many others (1779-1848)


Jook   Dico Tools
A small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox


Jook   Dico Tools
A Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast


Jook_house   Dico Tools
A small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox


Jook_joint   Dico Tools
A small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox


Joplin   Dico Tools
United States composer who was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions (1868-1917)


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Joplin   Dico Tools
United States singer who died of a drug overdose at the height of her popularity (1943-1970)


Joppa   Dico Tools
A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950


Jordan   Dico Tools
An Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea


Jordan   Dico Tools
A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan


Jordanella   Dico Tools
Flagfishes


Jordanella_floridae   Dico Tools
Flagfish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida


Jordanian   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Jordan


Jordanian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of Jordan or its people; "Jordanian archeological sites"


Jordanian_dinar   Dico Tools
The basic unit of money in Jordan; equal to 1,000 fils


Jordanian_monetary_unit   Dico Tools
Monetary unit in Jordan


Jordan_almond   Dico Tools
An almond covered with a sugar coating that is hard and flavored and colored


Jordan_almond   Dico Tools
Variety of large almond from Malaga, Spain; used in confectionery


Jordan_curve   Dico Tools
A closed curve that does not intersect itself


Jordan_River   Dico Tools
A river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan


Jorge_Borges   Dico Tools
Argentinian writer remembered for his short stories (1899-1986)


Jorge_Luis_Borges   Dico Tools
Argentinian writer remembered for his short stories (1899-1986)


Jorge_Mario_Pedro_Vargas_Llosa   Dico Tools
Peruvian writer (born in 1936)


Joroslav_Heyrovsky   Dico Tools
Czechoslovakian chemist who developed polarography (1890-1967)


Jorum   Dico Tools
A large drinking bowl


Josef_Albers   Dico Tools
United States painter born in Germany; works characterized by simple geometrical patterns in various colors (1888-1976)


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Josef_Hoffmann   Dico Tools
Austrian architect known for his use of rectilinear units (1870-1956)


Josef_Michel_Montgolfier   Dico Tools
French inventor who (with his brother Jacques Etienne Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1740-1810)


Josef_von_Sternberg   Dico Tools
United States film maker (born in Austria) whose films made Marlene Dietrich an international star (1894-1969)


Joseph   Dico Tools
(New Testament) husband of Mary and (in Christian belief) the foster father of Jesus


Joseph   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) the 11th son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel; Jacob gave Joseph a coat of many colors, which made his brothers jealous and they sold him into slavery in Egypt


Joseph   Dico Tools
Leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops (1840-1904)


Joseph's_coat   Dico Tools
Perennial aromatic herb of southeastern Asia having large usually bright-colored or blotched leaves and spikes of blue-violet flowers; sometimes placed in genus Solenostemon


Josephus   Dico Tools
Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)


Joseph_Alois_Schumpeter   Dico Tools
United States economist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1883-1950)


Joseph_Banks_Rhine   Dico Tools
United States parapsychologist (1895-1980)


Joseph_ben_Matthias   Dico Tools
Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)


Joseph_Black   Dico Tools
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)


Joseph_Campbell   Dico Tools
United States mythologist (1904-1987)


Joseph_Conrad   Dico Tools
English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924)


Joseph_Deems_Taylor   Dico Tools
United States composer and music critic (1885-1966)


Joseph_Eggleston_Johnston   Dico Tools
Confederate general in the American Civil War; led the Confederate troops in the West (1807-1891)


Joseph_Emerson_Worcester   Dico Tools
United States lexicographer who was accused of plagiarism by Noah Webster (1784-1865)


Joseph_Francis_Keaton   Dico Tools
United States comedian and actor in silent films noted for his acrobatic skills and deadpan face (1895-1966)


Joseph_Goebbels   Dico Tools
German propaganda minister in Nazi Germany who persecuted the Jews (1897-1945)


Joseph_Greenberg   Dico Tools
United States linguist who studied the historical relations among 5,000 languages (1916-2001)


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Joseph_Haydn   Dico Tools
Prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809)


Joseph_Heller   Dico Tools
United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999)


Joseph_Henry   Dico Tools
United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)


Joseph_Hilaire_Peter_Belloc   Dico Tools
English author (born in France) remembered especially for his verse for childre (1870-1953)


Joseph_Hooker   Dico Tools
United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)


Joseph_Jacques_Cesaire_Joffre   Dico Tools
French field marshal who commanded the Allied armies in France during World War II (1852-1931)


Joseph_Joachim   Dico Tools
Hungarian violinist and composer (1831-1907)


Joseph_John_Thomson   Dico Tools
English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940)


Joseph_Lincoln_Steffens   Dico Tools
United States journalist who exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936)


Joseph_Lister   Dico Tools
English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912)


Joseph_Louis_Barrow   Dico Tools
United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight campion for 12 years (1914-1981)


Joseph_Louis_Gay-Lussac   Dico Tools
French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850)


Joseph_M._Jacquard   Dico Tools
French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)


Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner   Dico Tools
English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)


Joseph_Marie_Jacquard   Dico Tools
French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)


Joseph_McCarthy   Dico Tools
United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)


Joseph_Oliver   Dico Tools
United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)


Joseph_Paul_DiMaggio   Dico Tools
United States professional baseball player noted for his batting ability (1914-1999)


Joseph_Paxton   Dico Tools
English architect (1801-1865)


Joseph_Priestley   Dico Tools
English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804)


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Joseph_Pulitzer   Dico Tools
United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911)


Joseph_Raymond_McCarthy   Dico Tools
United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)


Joseph_Rudyard_Kipling   Dico Tools
English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)


Joseph_Schumpeter   Dico Tools
United States economist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1883-1950)


Joseph_Smith   Dico Tools
Religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844)


Joseph_Stalin   Dico Tools
Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)


Joseph_Warren_Stilwell   Dico Tools
United States general who commanded the Allied forces in China and Burma and India during World War II (1883-1946)


Jose_Clemente_Orozco   Dico Tools
Mexican painter noted for his monumental murals (1883-1949)


Jose_Julian_Marti   Dico Tools
Cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for Cuban independence from Spain (1853-1895)


Jose_Orozco   Dico Tools
Mexican painter noted for his monumental murals (1883-1949)


Jose_Ortega_y_Gasset   Dico Tools
Spanish philosopher who advocated leadership by an intellectual elite (1883-1955)


Josh   Dico Tools
Be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"


Joshua   Dico Tools
A book in the Old Testament describing how Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan (the Promised Land) after the death of Moses


Joshua   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) Moses'' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land; best remembered for his destruction of Jericho


Joshua_tree   Dico Tools
A large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers


Josh_Billings   Dico Tools
United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)


Josiah_Quincy   Dico Tools
American patriot who presented the colonists'' grievances to the English king (1744-1775)


Josiah_Spode   Dico Tools
English potter who started a pottery famous for its bone china (1754-1827)


Josiah_Wedgwood   Dico Tools
English potter (1730-1795)


Josiah_Willard_Gibbs   Dico Tools
United States chemist (1839-1903)


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Josip_Broz   Dico Tools
Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war (1892-1980)


Joss   Dico Tools
A Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol


Joss_house   Dico Tools
A Chinese temple or shrine for idol worship


Joss_stick   Dico Tools
A slender stick of incense burned before a joss by the Chinese


Jostle   Dico Tools
The act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing)


Jostle   Dico Tools
Come into rough contact with while moving; "The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train"


Jostle   Dico Tools
Make one''s way by jostling, pushing, or shoving; "We had to jostle our way to the front of the platform"


Jostling   Dico Tools
The act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing)


Josue   Dico Tools
A book in the Old Testament describing how Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan (the Promised Land) after the death of Moses


Jot   Dico Tools
A brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note


Jot   Dico Tools
A slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"


Jot   Dico Tools
Write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of


Jotter   Dico Tools
A small notebook for rough notes


Jotting   Dico Tools
A brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note


Jotun   Dico Tools
(Norse mythology) one of a race of giants often in conflict with the Aesir


Jotunn   Dico Tools
(Norse mythology) one of a race of giants often in conflict with the Aesir


Jot_down   Dico Tools
Write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of


Joule   Dico Tools
English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889)


Joule   Dico Tools
A unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second


Jounce   Dico Tools
A sudden impact; "the door closed with a jolt"


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Jounce   Dico Tools
Move up and down repeatedly


Journal   Dico Tools
The part of the axle contained by a bearing


Journal   Dico Tools
A record book as a physical object


Journal   Dico Tools
A daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations


Journal   Dico Tools
A periodical dedicated to a particular subject; "he reads the medical journals"


Journal   Dico Tools
A ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred


Journalese   Dico Tools
The style in which newspapers are written


Journalism   Dico Tools
The profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media


Journalism   Dico Tools
Newspapers and magazines collectively


Journalist   Dico Tools
Someone who keeps a diary or journal


Journalist   Dico Tools
A writer for newspapers and magazines


Journalist's_privilege   Dico Tools
The right of a journalist to refuse to divulge sources of confidential information


Journalistic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism; "journalistic writing"


Journalistically   Dico Tools
By journalists; "he is being journalistically crucified in his own country"


Journal_bearing   Dico Tools
The bearing of a journal


Journal_box   Dico Tools
Metal housing for a journal bearing


Journey   Dico Tools
The act of traveling from one place to another


Journey   Dico Tools
Undertake a journey or trip


Journey   Dico Tools
Travel upon or across; "travel the oceans"


Journeyer   Dico Tools
Goes on a trip


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Journeying   Dico Tools
The act of traveling from one place to another


Journeyman   Dico Tools
A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft


Journey_cake   Dico Tools
Cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)


Joust   Dico Tools
A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances


Joust   Dico Tools
Joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback


Jove   Dico Tools
(Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus


Jovial   Dico Tools
Full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"


Joviality   Dico Tools
A jovial nature


Joviality   Dico Tools
Feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor


Jovially   Dico Tools
In a jovial manner; "he greeted his friend jovially"


Jovian   Dico Tools
Of or pertaining to or befitting the Roman deity Jupiter; "Jovian thunderbolts"; "Jovian wrath"


Jovian   Dico Tools
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of or resembling the planet Jupiter; "Jovian satellites"


Jovian_planet   Dico Tools
Any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter)


Jowett   Dico Tools
English classical scholar noted for his translations of Plato and Aristotle (1817-1893)


Jowl   Dico Tools
The lower jawbone in vertebrates; it is hinged to open the mouth


Jowl   Dico Tools
A fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging)


Jowly   Dico Tools
Having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw


Joy   Dico Tools
Something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"


Joy   Dico Tools
The emotion of great happiness


Joy   Dico Tools
Make glad or happy


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Joy   Dico Tools
Feel happiness or joy


Joyce   Dico Tools
Influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941)


Joyce_Carol_Oates   Dico Tools
United States writer (born in 1938)


Joyful   Dico Tools
Full of or suggesting exultant happiness; "a joyful heart"; "a joyful occasion"; "the joyous news"; "joyous laughter"


Joyful   Dico Tools
Full of or producing joy; "make a joyful noise"; "a joyful occasion"


Joyful   Dico Tools
Full of high-spirited delight


Joyfully   Dico Tools
In a joyous and gleeful manner; "the old man had greeted her gleefully"


Joyfulness   Dico Tools
The emotion of great happiness


Joyless   Dico Tools
Not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings"


Joylessly   Dico Tools
In a joyless manner; without joy; "she greeted her guests joylessly"


Joylessness   Dico Tools
A feeling of dismal cheerlessness


Joyous   Dico Tools
Full of or suggesting exultant happiness; "a joyful heart"; "a joyful occasion"; "the joyous news"; "joyous laughter"


Joyous   Dico Tools
Full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"


Joyously   Dico Tools
In a joyous and gleeful manner; "the old man had greeted her gleefully"


Joyousness   Dico Tools
The emotion of great happiness


Joyride   Dico Tools
A ride in a car taken solely for pleasure; "they took their girlfriends for joyrides in stolen cars"


Joyride   Dico Tools
Ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street"


Joystick   Dico Tools
A manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers


Joystick   Dico Tools
A lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane


Jr   Dico Tools
A son who has the same first name as his father


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Jr.   Dico Tools
Used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father; "John Junior"; "John Smith, Jr."


JRA   Dico Tools
A terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists; "in 1972 the Japanese Red Army was responsible for a massacre at an airport in Is


Juan_Carlos   Dico Tools
King of Spain since 1975 (born in 1938)


Juan_Carlos_Victor_Maria_de_Borbon_y_Borbon   Dico Tools
King of Spain since 1975 (born in 1938)


Juan_Domingo_Peron   Dico Tools
Argentine soldier who became president of Argentina (1895-1974)


Juan_Ramon_Jimenez   Dico Tools
Spanish lyric poet (1881-1958)


Juarez   Dico Tools
A city in northern Mexico on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso


Jubbulpore   Dico Tools
An industrial city of central India southeast of Delhi


Jubilance   Dico Tools
A feeling of extreme joy


Jubilancy   Dico Tools
A feeling of extreme joy


Jubilant   Dico Tools
Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout"


Jubilant   Dico Tools
Full of high-spirited delight


Jubilantly   Dico Tools
In a joyous manner; "they shouted happily"


Jubilate   Dico Tools
To express great joy; "Who cannot exult in Spring?"


Jubilate   Dico Tools
Celebrate a jubilee


Jubilation   Dico Tools
The utterance of sounds expressing great joy


Jubilation   Dico Tools
A joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event


Jubilation   Dico Tools
A feeling of extreme joy


Jubilee   Dico Tools
A special anniversary (or the celebration of it)


Juda   Dico Tools
An ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center


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Judaea   Dico Tools
The southern part of the ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah; a Roman province at the time of Christ


Judah   Dico Tools
An ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center


Judah   Dico Tools
(Old Testament) the fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel; one of his descendants was to be the Messiah


Judaic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion; "He is Jewish"; "a Jewish wedding"


Judaic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of the Jews or their culture or religion; "the Judaic idea of justice"


Judaica   Dico Tools
Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism


Judaical   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of the Jews or their culture or religion; "the Judaic idea of justice"


Judaism   Dico Tools
The monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud


Judaism   Dico Tools
Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud


Judas   Dico Tools
A one-way peephole in a door


Judas   Dico Tools
Someone who betrays under the guise of friendship


Judas   Dico Tools
(New Testament) the Apostle who betrayed Jesus to his enemies for 30 pieces of silver


Judas   Dico Tools
(New Testament) supposed brother of St James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless


Judas_Iscariot   Dico Tools
(New Testament) the Apostle who betrayed Jesus to his enemies for 30 pieces of silver


Judas_Maccabaeus   Dico Tools
Jewish leader of a revolt in Judea that recovered Jerusalem around 166 BC; hero of the Apocryphal books I Maccabees and II Maccabees (?-161 BC)


Judas_tree   Dico Tools
Small tree of the eastern Mediterranean having abundant purplish-red flowers growing on old wood directly from stems and appearing before the leaves: widely cultivated in mild regions; wood valuable for veneers


Judder   Dico Tools
Shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively; "The old engine was juddering"


Jude   Dico Tools
A New Testament book attributed to Saint Jude


Jude   Dico Tools
(New Testament) supposed brother of St James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless


Judea   Dico Tools
The southern part of the ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah; a Roman province at the time of Christ


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Judeo-Christian   Dico Tools
Being historically related to both Judaism and Christianity; "the Judeo-Christian tradition"


Judeo-Spanish   Dico Tools
The Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script


Judge   Dico Tools
An authority who is able to estimate worth or quality


Judge   Dico Tools
A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice


Judge   Dico Tools
Form an opinion of or pass judgment on; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"


Judge   Dico Tools
Determine the result of (a competition)


Judge   Dico Tools
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"


Judge   Dico Tools
Pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"


Judge   Dico Tools
Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"


Judge's_robe   Dico Tools
A gown worn by academics or judges


Judgement   Dico Tools
The act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"


Judgement   Dico Tools
(law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it


Judgement   Dico Tools
The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions


Judgement   Dico Tools
Ability to make good judgments


Judgement   Dico Tools
The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions


Judgement   Dico Tools
An opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind"


Judgement   Dico Tools
The legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge"


Judgement_by_default   Dico Tools
A judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court)


Judgement_Day   Dico Tools
(New Testament) day of the Last Judgment when God will decree the fates of all men according to the good and evil of their earthly lives


Judgement_in_personam   Dico Tools
A judgment rendered against an individual (or corporation) for the payment of money damages


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Judgement_in_rem   Dico Tools
A judgment pronounced on the status of some particular subject or property or thing (as opposed to one pronounced on persons)


Judgement_of_dismissal   Dico Tools
A judgment disposing of the matter without a trial


Judgement_on_the_merits   Dico Tools
Judgment rendered through analysis and adjudication of the factual issues presented


Judgement_on_the_pleadings   Dico Tools
A judgment rendered by the court prior to a verdict because no material issue of fact exists and one party or the other is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law


Judges   Dico Tools
A book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges


Judgeship   Dico Tools
The position of judge


Judge_advocate   Dico Tools
A staff officer serving as legal adviser to a military commander


Judge_advocate   Dico Tools
An officer assigned to the judge advocate general


Judge_advocate_general   Dico Tools
The senior legal advisor to a branch of the military


Judging   Dico Tools
The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions


Judgment   Dico Tools
The act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"


Judgment   Dico Tools
(law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it


Judgment   Dico Tools
The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions


Judgment   Dico Tools
Ability to make good judgments


Judgment   Dico Tools
The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions


Judgment   Dico Tools
An opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind"


Judgment   Dico Tools
The legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge"


Judgmental   Dico Tools
Depending on judgment; "a judgmental error"; "I think that she is too judgmental to be a good therapist"


Judgment_by_default   Dico Tools
A judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court)


Judgment_Day   Dico Tools
(New Testament) day of the Last Judgment when God will decree the fates of all men according to the good and evil of their earthly lives


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Judgment_in_personam   Dico Tools
A judgment rendered against an individual (or corporation) for the payment of money damages


Judgment_in_rem   Dico Tools
A judgment pronounced on the status of some particular subject or property or thing (as opposed to one pronounced on persons)


Judgment_lien   Dico Tools
Lien on a debtor''s property that is granted to a creditor by court judgment; lien may be enforced by having the sheriff seize the property and hold a sheriff''s sale


Judgment_of_conviction   Dico Tools
(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise"


Judgment_of_dismissal   Dico Tools
A judgment disposing of the matter without a trial


Judgment_on_the_merits   Dico Tools
Judgment rendered through analysis and adjudication of the factual issues presented


Judgment_on_the_pleadings   Dico Tools
A judgment rendered by the court prior to a verdict because no material issue of fact exists and one party or the other is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law


Judgship   Dico Tools
The position of judge


Judicable   Dico Tools
Capable of being judged or decided; "judicable issues"


Judicatory   Dico Tools
The system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government


Judicature   Dico Tools
The position of judge


Judicature   Dico Tools
The administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments; "justice deferred is justice denied"


Judicature   Dico Tools
The system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government


Judicature   Dico Tools
An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business


Judicial   Dico Tools
Expressing careful judgment; "discriminative censure"; "a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose"-Tyler Dennett


Judicial   Dico Tools
Decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice; "a judicial decision"


Judicial   Dico Tools
Relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge; "judicial system"


Judicial   Dico Tools
Belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge; "judicial robes"


Judicially   Dico Tools
In a judicial manner; "judicially controlled process"


Judicially   Dico Tools
As ordered by a court


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Judicial_activism   Dico Tools
An interpretation of the U.S. constitution holding that the spirit of the times and the needs of the nation can legitimately influence judicial decisions (particularly decisions of the Supreme Court)


Judicial_admission   Dico Tools
(law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record; "a stipulation of fact was made in order to avoid del


Judicial_branch   Dico Tools
The branch of the United States government responsible for the administration of justice


Judicial_decision   Dico Tools
(law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it


Judicial_doctrine   Dico Tools
(law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence


Judicial_principle   Dico Tools
(law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence


Judicial_proceeding   Dico Tools
A legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights


Judicial_review   Dico Tools
Review by a court of law of actions of a government official or entity or of some other legally appointed person or body or the review by an appellate court of the decision of a trial court


Judicial_sale   Dico Tools
A sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court''s writ of execution in order satisfy and unpaid obligation


Judicial_separation   Dico Tools
A judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart


Judicial_system   Dico Tools
The system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government


Judicial_writ   Dico Tools
(law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer


Judiciary   Dico Tools
Persons who administer justice


Judiciary   Dico Tools
The system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government


Judicious   Dico Tools
Proceeding from good sense or judgment; "a sensible choice"


Judicious   Dico Tools
Marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one''s money"; "a sensible manager"; "a wise decision"


Judicious   Dico Tools
Characterized by good judgment or sound thinking; "judicious journalism"


Judiciously   Dico Tools
In a judicious manner; "let''s use these intelligence tests judiciously"


Judiciousness   Dico Tools
The trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating


Judiciousness   Dico Tools
Good judgment


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Judith   Dico Tools
An Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people


Judith   Dico Tools
Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes


Judith_Jamison   Dico Tools
United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1944)


Judo   Dico Tools
A sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan


Judy_Garland   Dico Tools
United States singer and film actress (1922-1969)


Jug   Dico Tools
A large bottle with a narrow mouth


Jug   Dico Tools
The quantity contained in a jug


Jug   Dico Tools
Stew in an earthenware jug; "jug the rabbit"


Jug   Dico Tools
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"


Jugale   Dico Tools
The craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone


Jugal_bone   Dico Tools
The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek


Jugal_point   Dico Tools
The craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone


Jugful   Dico Tools
The quantity contained in a jug


Juggernaut   Dico Tools
A crude idol of Krishna


Juggernaut   Dico Tools
An avatar of Vishnu


Juggernaut   Dico Tools
A massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way


Juggle   Dico Tools
Throwing and catching several objects simultaneously


Juggle   Dico Tools
The act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression


Juggle   Dico Tools
Throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously


Juggle   Dico Tools
Deal with simultaneously; "She had to juggle her job and her children"


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Juggle   Dico Tools
Manipulate by or as if by moving around components; "juggle an account so as to hide a deficit"


Juggle   Dico Tools
Influence by slyness


Juggler   Dico Tools
A performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity


Jugglery   Dico Tools
The performance of a juggler


Jugglery   Dico Tools
Artful trickery designed to achieve an end; "the senator''s tax program was mere jugglery"


Juggling   Dico Tools
Throwing and catching several objects simultaneously


Juggling   Dico Tools
The act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression


Juglandaceae   Dico Tools
Trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans


Juglandales   Dico Tools
Coextensive with the family Juglandaceae


Juglans   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Juglandaceae


Juglans_californica   Dico Tools
Medium-sized tree with somewhat aromatic compound leaves and edible nuts


Juglans_cinerea   Dico Tools
North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye


Juglans_nigra   Dico Tools
North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut


Juglans_regia   Dico Tools
Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated


Jugoslav   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia


Jugoslavian   Dico Tools
A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia


Jugoslavija   Dico Tools
A mountainous republic in southeastern Europe


Jugular   Dico Tools
A vital part that is vulnerable to attack; "he always goes for the jugular"


Jugular   Dico Tools
Veins in the neck that return blood from the head


Jugular   Dico Tools
Relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat; "jugular vein"


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Jugular_vein   Dico Tools
Veins in the neck that return blood from the head


Jug_band   Dico Tools
A musical group that uses jugs and washboards and kazoos and other improvised instruments


Jug_wine   Dico Tools
Inexpensive wine sold in large bottles or jugs


Juice   Dico Tools
Any of several liquids of the body; "digestive juices"


Juice   Dico Tools
The liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue


Juice   Dico Tools
Electric current; "when the wiring was finished they turned on the juice"


Juice   Dico Tools
Energetic vitality; "her creative juices were flowing"


Juiceless   Dico Tools
Lacking juice


Juiceless   Dico Tools
Lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; "a dry book"; "a dry lecture filled with trivial details"; "dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life"- John Mason Brown


Juicer   Dico Tools
A squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit


Juicer   Dico Tools
A person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)


Juice_reamer   Dico Tools
A squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit


Juice_up   Dico Tools
E.g.,make more interesting or lively; "juice up a party"; "pep up your paper"


Juiciness   Dico Tools
A juicy appetizingness


Juicy   Dico Tools
Full of juice


Juicy   Dico Tools
Lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"


Juicy   Dico Tools
Suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"


Juicy   Dico Tools
Having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"


Jujitsu   Dico Tools
A method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker''s own weight and strength


Juju   Dico Tools
A charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers


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Juju   Dico Tools
The power associated with a juju


Jujube   Dico Tools
Chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat)


Jujube   Dico Tools
Dark red plum-like fruit of Old World buckthorn trees


Jujube   Dico Tools
Spiny tree having dark red edible fruits


Jujube_bush   Dico Tools
Spiny tree having dark red edible fruits


Jujutsu   Dico Tools
A method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker''s own weight and strength


Juke   Dico Tools
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player


Juke   Dico Tools
A small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox


Jukebox   Dico Tools
A cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin


Juke_house   Dico Tools
A small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox


Juke_joint   Dico Tools
A small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox


Julep   Dico Tools
Bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice


Jules_Alfred_Huot_de_Goncourt   Dico Tools
French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870)


Jules_de_Goncourt   Dico Tools
French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870)


Jules_Emile_Frederic_Massenet   Dico Tools
French composer best remembered for his pop operas (1842-1912)


Jules_Feifer   Dico Tools
United States cartoonist who created a sarcastic comic strip (born in 1929)


Jules_Verne   Dico Tools
French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905)


Julian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of Julius Caesar; "the Julian calendar"


Julian_Bond   Dico Tools
United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)


Julian_calendar   Dico Tools
The solar calendar introduced in Rome in 46 b.c. by Julius Caesar and slightly modified by Augustus, establishing the 12-month year of 365 days with each 4th year having 366 days and the months having 31 or 30 days except for February


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Julia_Evelina_Smith   Dico Tools
United States suffragist who refused to pay taxes until she could vote (1792-1886)


Julia_Ward_Howe   Dico Tools
United States feminist who was active in the women''s suffrage movement (1819-1910)


Julienne   Dico Tools
Cut into long thin strips; "julienne the potatoes"


Julio_Iglesias   Dico Tools
Spanish singer noted for his ballads and love songs (born in 1943)


Julius_Caesar   Dico Tools
Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC)


Julius_Erving   Dico Tools
United States basketball forward (born in 1950)


Julius_Marx   Dico Tools
United States comedian; oldest of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1890-1977)


Julius_Ullman   Dico Tools
United States film actor noted for his swashbuckling roles (1883-1939)


Julius_Winfield_Erving   Dico Tools
United States basketball forward (born in 1950)


July   Dico Tools
The month following June and preceding August


July_1   Dico Tools
A legal holiday in Canada commemorating receiving Dominion status in 1867


July_4   Dico Tools
A legal holiday in the United States


Jumada_I   Dico Tools
The fifth month of the Islamic calendar


Jumada_II   Dico Tools
The sixth month of the Islamic calendar


Jumbal   Dico Tools
Small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie


Jumbie_bead   Dico Tools
West Indian tree similar to Ormosia monosperma but larger and having smaller leaflets and smaller seeds


Jumble   Dico Tools
A theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas


Jumble   Dico Tools
Small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie


Jumble   Dico Tools
A confused multitude of things


Jumble   Dico Tools
Bring into random order


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Jumble   Dico Tools
Assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"


Jumble   Dico Tools
Be all mixed up or jumbled together; "His words jumbled"


Jumbled   Dico Tools
In utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"


Jumble_sale   Dico Tools
A sale of donated articles


Jumbo   Dico Tools
Of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"


Jumbojet   Dico Tools
A very large jet plane


Jumbo_jet   Dico Tools
A very large jet plane


Jumby_bead   Dico Tools
West Indian tree similar to Ormosia monosperma but larger and having smaller leaflets and smaller seeds


Jumby_bean   Dico Tools
Small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong slender-pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers; seeds are black or scarlet with black spots


Jumby_tree   Dico Tools
Small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong slender-pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers; seeds are black or scarlet with black spots


Jument   Dico Tools
An animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work


Jumentous   Dico Tools
Smelling strongly like an animal; "jumentous urine"


Jump   Dico Tools
The act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected"


Jump   Dico Tools
Descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army"


Jump   Dico Tools
A sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start"


Jump   Dico Tools
(film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another


Jump   Dico Tools
An abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"


Jump   Dico Tools
A sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance"


Jump   Dico Tools
Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions


Jump   Dico Tools
Rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"


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Jump   Dico Tools
Increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight"


Jump   Dico Tools
Pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"


Jump   Dico Tools
Bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"


Jump   Dico Tools
Enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game"


Jump   Dico Tools
Make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat"


Jump   Dico Tools
Start a car engine whose battery by connecting it to another car''s battery


Jump   Dico Tools
Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"


Jump   Dico Tools
Move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"


Jump   Dico Tools
Cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop"


Jump   Dico Tools
Jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute


Jump   Dico Tools
Run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"


Jump   Dico Tools
Be highly noticeable


Jump-start   Dico Tools
Start or re-start vigorously; "The Secretary of State intends to jumpstart the Middle East Peace Process"


Jump-start   Dico Tools
Start a car engine whose battery by connecting it to another car''s battery


Jumped-up   Dico Tools
(British informal) upstart


Jumper   Dico Tools
A player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump


Jumper   Dico Tools
A sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing


Jumper   Dico Tools
A loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen


Jumper   Dico Tools
A small connector used to make temporary electrical connections


Jumper   Dico Tools
An athlete who bounds or leaps (as in basketball)


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Jumper   Dico Tools
An athlete who competes at jumping


Jumpers   Dico Tools
A coverall worn by children


Jumper_cable   Dico Tools
A jumper that consists of a short piece of wire; "it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads"


Jumper_lead   Dico Tools
A jumper that consists of a short piece of wire; "it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads"


Jumpiness   Dico Tools
The anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters


Jumping   Dico Tools
The act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected"


Jumping   Dico Tools
The act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump


Jumping-off_place   Dico Tools
A place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched; "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure was San Francisco"


Jumping-off_point   Dico Tools
A beginning from which an enterprise is launched; "he uses other people''s ideas as a springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but mu


Jumping_bean   Dico Tools
Seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble


Jumping_bristletail   Dico Tools
Wingless insect living in dark moist places as under dead tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed


Jumping_gene   Dico Tools
A segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole)


Jumping_jack   Dico Tools
Plaything consisting of a toy figure with movable joints that can be made to dance by pulling strings


Jumping_mouse   Dico Tools
Any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches; of woodlands of Eurasia and North America


Jumping_orchid   Dico Tools
Orchid having both male and female flowers in the same raceme; when a sensitive projection at the base of the column of the male flower is touched the pollen is suddenly ejected


Jumping_plant_louse   Dico Tools
Small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices


Jumping_seed   Dico Tools
Seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble


Jumping_up_and_down   Dico Tools
Jumping in one spot (as in excitement); "the wailing and jumping up and down exhausted him"


Jumpstart   Dico Tools
Start or re-start vigorously; "The Secretary of State intends to jumpstart the Middle East Peace Process"


Jumpstart   Dico Tools
Start a car engine whose battery by connecting it to another car''s battery


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Jumpsuit   Dico Tools
One-piece garment fashioned after a parachutist''s uniform


Jumpy   Dico Tools
Being in a tense state


Jump_ball   Dico Tools
(basketball) the way play begins or resumes when possession is disputed; an official tosses the ball up between two players who jump in an effort to tap it to a teammate


Jump_cut   Dico Tools
An immediate transition from one scene to another


Jump_for_joy   Dico Tools
Feel extreme happiness or elation


Jump_off   Dico Tools
Set off quickly, usually with success; "The freshman set off to a good start in his math class"


Jump_on   Dico Tools
Get on the back of; "mount a horse"


Jump_out   Dico Tools
Be highly noticeable


Jump_rope   Dico Tools
A child''s game or a cardiopulmonary exercise in which the player jumps over a swinging rope


Jump_rope   Dico Tools
A length of rope (usually with handles on each end) that is swung around while someone jumps over it


Jump_seat   Dico Tools
A folding seat in an automobile


Jump_shot   Dico Tools
A player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump


Jump_suit   Dico Tools
One-piece uniform worn by parachutists


Jump_suit   Dico Tools
One-piece garment fashioned after a parachutist''s uniform


Juncaceae   Dico Tools
Tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes


Juncaginaceae   Dico Tools
A family of monocotyledonous bog herbs of order Naiadales


Junco   Dico Tools
Small North American finch seen chiefly in winter


Junco_hyemalis   Dico Tools
Common North American junco having gray plumage and eyes with dark brown irises


Junction   Dico Tools
An act of joining or adjoining things


Junction   Dico Tools
The place where two or more things come together


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Junction   Dico Tools
Something that joins or connects


Junction   Dico Tools
The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made


Junction   Dico Tools
The state of being joined together


Junction_barrier   Dico Tools
A junction unit for connecting 2 cables without the need for plugs


Junction_rectifier   Dico Tools
A semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction


Junction_transistor   Dico Tools
A semiconductor device capable of amplification


Juncture   Dico Tools
An event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"


Juncture   Dico Tools
The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made


Juncture   Dico Tools
A crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made; "at that juncture he had no idea what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"


Juncus   Dico Tools
Type genus of the Juncaceae; perennial tufted glabrous marsh plants of temperate regions: rushes


Juncus_articulatus   Dico Tools
Rush of Australia


Juncus_bufonius   Dico Tools
Low-growing annual rush of damp low-lying ground; nearly cosmopolitan


Juncus_effusus   Dico Tools
Tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America


Juncus_inflexus   Dico Tools
Tall rush of temperate regions


Juncus_leseurii   Dico Tools
Rush of the Pacific coast of North America


Juncus_tenuis   Dico Tools
Tufted wiry rush of wide distribution


Jund-ul-Islam   Dico Tools
An Islamic extremist group of Kurds who oppose secular control with bombings and assassinations; believed to have ties with al-Qaeda


June   Dico Tools
The month following May and preceding July


Juneau   Dico Tools
The state capital of Alaska


Juneberry   Dico Tools
Edible purple or red berries


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Juneberry   Dico Tools
Any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit


Juneberry_holly   Dico Tools
A holly shrub


June_14   Dico Tools
Commemorating the adoption of the U.S. flag in 1777


June_21   Dico Tools
June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point


June_23   Dico Tools
The night before Midsummer Day


June_24   Dico Tools
A quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland


June_29   Dico Tools
First celebrated in the 3rd century


June_3   Dico Tools
Celebrated in southern United States


June_beetle   Dico Tools
Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.


June_bug   Dico Tools
Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc.


June_grass   Dico Tools
Valuable meadow and pasture grass in Europe and especially central United States having tall stalks and slender bright green leaves; a chief constituent in lawn grass mixtures


Jung   Dico Tools
Swiss psychologist (1875-1961)


Jungermanniaceae   Dico Tools
Comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales


Jungermanniales   Dico Tools
Large order of chiefly tropical liverworts


Jungian   Dico Tools
Of or relating to Carl Jung or his psychological theories


Jungian_psychology   Dico Tools
The psychological theories of Carl Jung


Jungle   Dico Tools
A place where hoboes camp


Jungle   Dico Tools
A location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival


Jungle   Dico Tools
An impenetrable equatorial forest


Jungle_cat   Dico Tools
Small Asiatic wildcat


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Jungle_cock   Dico Tools
Male jungle fowl


Jungle_fever   Dico Tools
Severe form of malaria occurring in tropical regions


Jungle_fowl   Dico Tools
Small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl


Jungle_gym   Dico Tools
A structure of vertical and horizontal rods where children can climb and play


Jungle_hen   Dico Tools
Female jungle fowl


Jungle_rot   Dico Tools
Skin disorder induced by a tropical climate


Jungly   Dico Tools
Overgrown with tropical vegetation


Junin_virus   Dico Tools
The RNA virus that causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever; carried by rats and mice


Junior   Dico Tools
The younger of two men


Junior   Dico Tools
A third-year undergraduate


Junior   Dico Tools
A son who has the same first name as his father


Junior   Dico Tools
Term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male; "look here, junior, it''s none of your business"


Junior   Dico Tools
Including or intended for youthful persons; "a junior sports league"; "junior fashions"


Junior   Dico Tools
Younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service


Junior(a)   Dico Tools
Used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student"


Junior-grade   Dico Tools
Inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"


Junior_class   Dico Tools
Penultimate class in high school or college


Junior_college   Dico Tools
A college that offers only the first two years terminating in an associate degree


Junior_featherweight   Dico Tools
Weighs no more than 122 pounds


Junior_high   Dico Tools
A secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades


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Junior_high_school   Dico Tools
A secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades


Junior_lightweight   Dico Tools
Weighs no more than 130 pounds


Junior_middleweight   Dico Tools
Weighs no more than 154 pounds


Junior_school   Dico Tools
British school for children aged 7-11


Junior_status   Dico Tools
In a junior position


Junior_varsity   Dico Tools
A college or university team that competes at a level below the varsity team


Junior_welterweight   Dico Tools
Weighs no more than 140 pounds


Juniper   Dico Tools
Coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones


Juniper   Dico Tools
Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista


Juniperic_acid   Dico Tools
A crystalline acid found in the exudations of some conifers


Junipero_Serra   Dico Tools
Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784)


Juniperus   Dico Tools
Junipers


Juniperus_bermudiana   Dico Tools
Ornamental densely pyramidal juniper of Bermuda; fairly large for a juniper


Juniperus_communis   Dico Tools
Densely branching shrub or small tree having pungent blue berries used to flavor gin; widespread in northern hemisphere; only conifer on coasts of Iceland and Greenland


Juniperus_communis_depressa   Dico Tools
A procumbent variety of the common juniper


Juniperus_flaccida   Dico Tools
Small tree of western Texas and mountains of Mexico having spreading branches with drooping branchlets


Juniperus_horizontalis   Dico Tools
Low to prostrate shrub of Canada and northern United States; bronzed purple in winter


Juniperus_procera   Dico Tools
Tropical African timber tree with fragrant wood


Juniperus_sabina   Dico Tools
Procumbent or spreading juniper


Juniperus_silicicola   Dico Tools
Juniper of swampy coastal regions of southeastern United States; similar to eastern red cedar


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Juniperus_virginiana   Dico Tools
Small juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needles


Juniper_berries   Dico Tools
Berrylike cone of a common juniper; used in making gin


Juniper_berry   Dico Tools
Berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper


Juniper_bush   Dico Tools
Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista


Junk   Dico Tools
Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails


Junk   Dico Tools
The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up


Junk   Dico Tools
Dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer"


Junked   Dico Tools
Disposed of as useless; "waste paper"


Junker   Dico Tools
Member of the Prussian aristocracy noted especially for militarism


Junkers   Dico Tools
German aircraft engineer who designed the first all-metal airplane (1859-1935)


Junket   Dico Tools
A trip taken by an official at public expense


Junket   Dico Tools
A journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"


Junket   Dico Tools
Dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet


Junket   Dico Tools
Partake in a feast or banquet


Junket   Dico Tools
Provide a feast or banquet for


Junket   Dico Tools
Go on a pleasure trip


Junketing   Dico Tools
Taking an excursion for pleasure


Junkie   Dico Tools
Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a news junkie"


Junkie   Dico Tools
A narcotics addict


Junky   Dico Tools
Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a news junkie"


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Junky   Dico Tools
A narcotics addict


Junkyard   Dico Tools
A field where junk is collected and stored for resale


Junk_bond   Dico Tools
A (speculative) bond with a credit rating of BB or lower; issued for leveraged buyouts and other takeovers by companies with questionable credit


Junk_DNA   Dico Tools
Stretches of DNA that do not code for genes; "most of the genome consists of junk DNA"


Junk_e-mail   Dico Tools
Unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)


Junk_food   Dico Tools
Food that tastes good but is high in calories having little nutritional value


Junk_heap   Dico Tools
An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter


Junk_mail   Dico Tools
Third-class mail consisting of advertising and often addressed to `resident'' or `occupant''


Junk_pile   Dico Tools
An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter


Junk_shop   Dico Tools
A shop that sells cheap secondhand goods


Juno   Dico Tools
(Roman mythology) queen of the Olympian gods who protected marriage; wife and sister of Jupiter; counterpart of Greek Hera


Junoesque   Dico Tools
Suggestive of a statue


Junta   Dico Tools
A group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power


Junto   Dico Tools
A clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue


Jupati   Dico Tools
A tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes


Jupati_palm   Dico Tools
A tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes


Jupaty   Dico Tools
A tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes


Jupiter   Dico Tools
The largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites


Jupiter   Dico Tools
(Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus


Jupiter's_beard   Dico Tools
Silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers


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Jupiter_Fidius   Dico Tools
An epithet for Jupiter


Jupiter_Fulgur   Dico Tools
An epithet for Jupiter


Jupiter_Fulminator   Dico Tools
An epithet for Jupiter


Jupiter_Optimus_Maximus   Dico Tools
An epithet for Jupiter


Jupiter_Pluvius   Dico Tools
An epithet for Jupiter


Jupiter_Tonans   Dico Tools
An epithet for Jupiter


Jural   Dico Tools
Of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations


Jurassic   Dico Tools
From 190 million to 135 million years ago; dinosaurs; conifers


Jurassic_period   Dico Tools
From 190 million to 135 million years ago; dinosaurs; conifers


Juridic   Dico Tools
Relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge; "judicial system"


Juridic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the law or jurisprudence; "juridical days"


Juridical   Dico Tools
Relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge; "judicial system"


Juridical   Dico Tools
Of or relating to the law or jurisprudence; "juridical days"


Jurisdiction   Dico Tools
(law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law; "courts having jurisdiction in this district"


Jurisdiction   Dico Tools
In law; the territory within which power can be exercised


Jurisdictional   Dico Tools
Restricted to the geographic area under a particular jurisdiction; "the jurisdictional limits of a state"


Jurisprudence   Dico Tools
The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do


Jurisprudence   Dico Tools
The collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"


Jurisprudential   Dico Tools
Relating to the science or philosophy of law or a system of laws


Jurisprudentially   Dico Tools
In respect to jurisprudence or the science or philosophy of law


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Jurist   Dico Tools
A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice


Jurist   Dico Tools
A legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations


Juristic   Dico Tools
Of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations


Juror   Dico Tools
Someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury


Jury   Dico Tools
A body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law


Jury   Dico Tools
A committee appointed to judge a competition


Jury-rigged   Dico Tools
Done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"


Juryman   Dico Tools
Someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury


Jurywoman   Dico Tools
Someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury


Jury_box   Dico Tools
An enclosure within a courtroom for the jury


Jury_duty   Dico Tools
The civic duty to serve on a jury


Jury_mast   Dico Tools
A temporary mast to replace one that has broken off


Jury_system   Dico Tools
A legal system for determining the facts at issue in a law suit


Jussieu   Dico Tools
French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836)


Jussive_mood   Dico Tools
A mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener''s behavior


Just   Dico Tools
Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"


Just   Dico Tools
Implying justice dictated by reason, conscience, and a natural sense of what is fair to all; "equitable treatment of all citizens"; "an equitable distribution of gifts among the children"


Just   Dico Tools
Used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting; "a just and lasting peace"- A.Lincoln; "a kind and just man"; "a just reward"; "his just inheritance"


Just   Dico Tools
Of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass


Just   Dico Tools
By a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats


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And nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment"


Just   Dico Tools
Only a moment ago; "he has just arrived"; "the sun just now came out"


Just   Dico Tools
Indicating exactness or preciseness; "he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do"; "it was just as he said--the jewel was gone"; "it has just enough salt"


Just   Dico Tools
Absolutely; "I just can''t take it anymore"; "he was just grand as Romeo"; "it''s simply beautiful!"


Just-noticeable_difference   Dico Tools
(psychophysics) the difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected


Justice   Dico Tools
The administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments; "justice deferred is justice denied"


Justice   Dico Tools
The quality of being just or fair


Justice   Dico Tools
The United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870


Justice   Dico Tools
A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice


Justice_Department   Dico Tools
The United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870


Justice_of_the_peace   Dico Tools
A local magistrate with limited powers


Justiciar   Dico Tools
Formerly a high judicial officer


Justiciary   Dico Tools
The jurisdiction of a justiciar


Justiciary   Dico Tools
Formerly a high judicial officer


Justifiable   Dico Tools
Capable of being justified


Justifiably   Dico Tools
With good reason; "he is justifiably bitter"


Justification   Dico Tools
The act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller


Justification   Dico Tools
Something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary; "he considered misrule a justification for revolution"


Justification   Dico Tools
A statement in explanation of some action or belief


Justificative   Dico Tools
Providing justification


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Justificative   Dico Tools
Attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing


Justificatory   Dico Tools
Providing justification


Justificatory   Dico Tools
Attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing


Justified   Dico Tools
Having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins


Justifiedly   Dico Tools
With honesty; "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time"


Justifier   Dico Tools
A person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment"


Justify   Dico Tools
Adjust the spaces between words; "justify the margins"


Justify   Dico Tools
Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child''s seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"


Justify   Dico Tools
Show to be right by providing justification or proof; "vindicate a claim"


Justify   Dico Tools
Show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means"


Justify   Dico Tools
Let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"


Justinian   Dico Tools
Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman Law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565)


Justinian_code   Dico Tools
The legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law


Justinian_I   Dico Tools
Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman Law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565)


Justinian_the_Great   Dico Tools
Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman Law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565)


Justly   Dico Tools
In accordance with moral or social standards; "that serves him right"; "do right by him"


Justly   Dico Tools
With honesty; "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time"


Justness   Dico Tools
Conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty"


Justness   Dico Tools
The quality of being just or fair


Just_about   Dico Tools
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he''s about 30 years old"; "I''ve had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundre


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Just_as   Dico Tools
At the same time as; "even as he lay dying they argued over his estate"; "the building collapsed just as he arrived"


Just_deserts   Dico Tools
An outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically)


Just_in_case   Dico Tools
If there happens to be need; "in case of trouble call 911"; "I have money, just in case"


Just_in_time   Dico Tools
At the last possible moment; "she was saved in the nick of time"


Just_now   Dico Tools
Only a moment ago; "he has just arrived"; "the sun just now came out"


Just_right   Dico Tools
In every detail; "the new house suited them to a T"


Just_so   Dico Tools
In a careful manner; "you must treat this plant just so"


Just_then   Dico Tools
At a particular time in the past; "just then the bugle sounded"


Just_the_ticket   Dico Tools
The appropriate or desirable thing; "this car could be just the ticket for a small family"


Jus_civile   Dico Tools
The legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law


Jus_sanguinis   Dico Tools
The principle that a person''s nationality at birth is the same as that of his natural parents


Jus_soli   Dico Tools
The principle that a person''s nationality at birth is determined by the place of birth


Jut   Dico Tools
The act of projecting out from something


Jut   Dico Tools
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form


Jut   Dico Tools
Extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"


Jute   Dico Tools
A member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons


Jute   Dico Tools
A plant fiber used in making rope or sacks


Jutish   Dico Tools
One of the major dialects of Old English


Jutland   Dico Tools
An indecisive naval battle in World War I (1916); fought between the British and German fleets off the northwestern coast of Denmark


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Jutland   Dico Tools
Peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany


Jutting   Dico Tools
The act of projecting out from something


Jutting   Dico Tools
Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"


Jut_out   Dico Tools
Extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff"


Juvenal   Dico Tools
Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140)


Juvenescence   Dico Tools
The process of growing into a youth


Juvenile   Dico Tools
A youthful person


Juvenile   Dico Tools
Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"


Juvenile   Dico Tools
Of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people; "juvenile diabetes"; "juvenile fashions"


Juvenile-onset_diabetes   Dico Tools
Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease


Juvenile_amaurotic_idiocy   Dico Tools
A congenital progressive disorder of lipid metabolism having an onset at age 5 and characterized by blindness and dementia and early death


Juvenile_body   Dico Tools
The body of a young person


Juvenile_court   Dico Tools
A court having jurisdiction over dependent and delinquent children


Juvenile_delinquency   Dico Tools
An antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor


Juvenile_delinquent   Dico Tools
A young offender


Juvenile_diabetes   Dico Tools
Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease


Juvenile_person   Dico Tools
A youthful person


Juvenile_rheumatoid_arthritis   Dico Tools
A form of rheumatoid arthritis that affects children; large joints become inflamed and bone growth may be retarded


Juvenile_wart   Dico Tools
A small benign growth on the faces of hands of children


Juvenility   Dico Tools
The freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person


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Juvenility   Dico Tools
Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life


Juxtapose   Dico Tools
Place side by side; "The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors"


Juxtaposed   Dico Tools
Placed side by side often for comparison; "juxtaposed pictures"


Juxtaposition   Dico Tools
The act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"


Juxtaposition   Dico Tools
A side-by-side position


JV   Dico Tools
A college or university team that competes at a level below the varsity team


Jyaistha   Dico Tools
The third month of the Hindu calendar


Jylland   Dico Tools
Peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany


Jynx   Dico Tools
Wrynecks


J_particle   Dico Tools
A neutral meson with a large mass



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