Words starting with j

Words, definitions, meanings and synonyms

j means: the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet

j means: 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 particle means: a neutral meson with a large mass

j. b. rhine means: United States parapsychologist (1895-1980)

j. b. s. haldane means: 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 means: Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)

j. craig ventner means: 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 means: United States writer (born 1919)

j. e. johnston means: Confederate general in the American Civil War; led the Confederate troops in the West (1807-1891)

j. edgar hoover means: United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)

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anorectal means: pertaining to the anus and rectum considered together

body and soul means: with complete faith

chiliast means: a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity)

computer business means: a business that manufactures and sells computers

cylinder head means: a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump

douglas fairbanks means: United States film actor noted for his swashbuckling roles (1883-1939)

fasciculus means: a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)

gaius julius caesar means: conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC)

genus alcedo means: type genus of the Alcedinidae

lager means: a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons

lager means: a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September

megalomaniacal means: suffering from megalomania

milky way system means: the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky

monopolist means: someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something

protogeometric means: characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece

reburial means: the act of burying again

ringtail means: an immature golden eagle

ringtail means: monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl

ringtail means: North American raccoon

ringtail means: raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings