1: 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 [syn: {joule}, {watt second}] 2: the 10th letter of the Roman a...

1: a neutral meson with a large mass [syn: {psi particle}]

1: United States parapsychologist (1895-1980) [syn: {Rhine}, {Joseph Banks Rhine}]

1: Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964) [syn: {Haldane}, {John Burdon Sanderson Halda...

1: Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879) [syn: {Maxwell}, {James Clerk Maxwell}]

1: 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 hu...

1: United States writer (born 1919) [syn: {Salinger}, {Jerome David Salinger}]

1: Confederate general in the American Civil War; led the Confederate troops in the West (1807-1891) [syn: {Johnston}, {Joseph Eggleston Johnston}]

1: United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972) [syn: {Hoover}, {John Edgar Hoover}]

1: United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916) [syn: {Hill}, {James Jerome Hill}]

1: Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937) [syn: {Barrie}, {James Barrie}, {James Matthew Barrie}, {Sir James Matthew Barrie}]

1: Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909) [syn: {Synge}, {John Millington Synge}, {Edmund John Millington Synge}]

1: United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913) [syn: {Morgan}, {John Pierpont Morgan}]

1: 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) [syn: {Firth}, {Joh...

1: British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973) [syn: {Tolkien}, {John Ronald Reuel Tolkien}]

1: a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist" [syn: {jabbing}, {poke}, {poking}, {thrust}, {thrusting}] 2: a quick ...

1: an industrial city of central India southeast of Delhi [syn: {Jubbulpore}]

1: 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 Lebanes...

{jab}

1: rapid and indistinct speech [syn: {jabbering}, {gabble}] v : talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: {rant}, {mouth off}, {spout}, {rabbit on}, {rave}]

1: someone whose talk is trivial drivel [syn: {driveller}]

1: talking idly or incoherently; "blithering (or blathering) idiot"; "jabbering children"; "gabbling housewives"; "a babbling hospital inmate" [syn: {blathering}, {blithering}, {babbling}] n : rapid a...

1: nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll)

{jab}

1: large mostly white Australian stork [syn: {policeman bird}, {black-necked stork}, {Xenorhyncus asiaticus}] 2: large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around th...

1: large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America [syn: {jabiru}]

1: evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans [syn: {China tree}, {false dogwood}, {chinaberry}, {Sapindus saponaria}]

1: a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt

1: 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 t...

1: 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 t...

1: tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage

1: an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black [syn: {Brazilian rosewood}, {caviuna wood}, {Dalbergia nigra}]

1: a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone [syn: {hyacinth}]

1: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn: {diddly-squat}, {diddlysquat}, {diddly-shit}, {diddlyshit}, {diddly}, {diddley}, {squat}, {shit}] 2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: {marine...

1: annual semi-erect bushy plant of tropical South America bearing long pods with white seeds grown especially for forage [syn: {wonder bean}, {giant stock bean}, {Canavalia ensiformis}]

1: United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor (1894-1974) [syn: {Benny}, {Benjamin Kubelsky}]

1: fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico [syn: {crevalle jack}, {Caranx hippos}]

1: United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983) [syn: {Dempsey}, {William Harrison Dempsey}, {The Manassa Mauler}]

1: a personification of frost or winter weather

1: 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963) [syn: {Kennedy}, {John Fitzgerald Kennedy}, {JFK}, {President Kennedy}, {President John F. Kenne...

1: United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969) [syn: {Kerouac}, {Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac}]

1: (nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps [syn: {Jacob's ladder}, {pilot ladder}]

1: United States film actor (born in 1925) [syn: {Lemmon}, {John Uhler}]

1: United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916) [syn: {London}, {John Griffith Chaney}]

1: a California food fish [syn: {horse mackerel}, {Spanish mackerel}, {saurel}, {Trachurus symmetricus}]

1: United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940) [syn: {Nicklaus}, {Jack William Nicklaus}]

1: 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 [syn: {blackjack oak}, {blackjack}, {...

1: a person able to do a variety of different jobs acceptably well 2: a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks [syn: {handyman}, {odd-job man}]

1: get sexual gratification through self-stimulation [syn: {masturbate}, {wank}, {fuck off}, {she-bop}, {jerk off}]

1: slender medium-sized 2-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly gray to red-brown fissured bark [syn: {Pinus banksiana}]

1: a carpenter's plane for rough surfacing

1: United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972) [syn: {Robinson}, {Jackie Robinson}]

1: pike-like freshwater perches [syn: {walleye}, {walleyed pike}, {Stizostedion vitreum}]

1: an unidentified English murderer in the 19th century

1: lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire" [syn: {jack}]

1: United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940) [syn: {Nicklaus}, {Jack Nicklaus}]

1: a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent [syn: {jack-o-lantern fungus}, {jack-o-lantern}, {Omphalotus illudens}]

1: European herb that smells like garlic [syn: {garlic mustard}, {hedge garlic}, {sauce-alone}, {Alliaria officinalis}]

1: plaything consisting of a toy clown that jumps out of a box when the lid is opened [also: {jacks-in-the-box} (pl)]

1: common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries [syn: {Indian turnip}, {w...

1: a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground [syn: {friar's lantern}, {ignis fatuus}, {will-o'-the-wisp}] 2: lantern carved from a pumpkin

1: a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent [syn: {jack-o-lantern fungus}, {jack-a-lantern}, {Omphalotus illudens}]

1: a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent [syn: {jack-o-lantern}, {jack-a-lantern}, {Omphalotus illudens}]

1: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: {mariner}, {seaman}, {tar}, {Jack}, {old salt}, {seafarer}, {gob}, {sea dog}]

1: 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 [syn: {Canis aureus}]

1: someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous [syn: {whippersnapper}, {lightweight}]

1: a man who is a stupid incompetent fool [syn: {fathead}, {goof}, {goofball}, {bozo}, {goose}, {cuckoo}, {twat}, {zany}] 2: male donkey [syn: {jack}]

1: large spotted bat of southwestern United States having enormous ears [syn: {spotted bat}, {Euderma maculata}]

1: small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying call [syn: {Spheniscus demersus}]

1: (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot [syn: {Hessian boot}, {hessian}, {Wellington}, {Wellington boot}]

1: common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery [syn: {daw}, {Corvus monedula}]

{jackaroo}

1: a short coat 2: an outer wrapping or casing; "phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets" 3: (dentistry) an artificial crown fitted over a broken or decayed tooth [syn: {jacket crown}] 4: th...

1: (dentistry) an artificial crown fitted over a broken or decayed tooth [syn: {jacket}]

1: a baked potato served with the jacket on

{jackfish}

1: East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds [syn: {jackfruit tree}, {Artocarpus heterophyllus}] 2: immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of; its seeds are commonly ...

1: East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds [syn: {jackfruit}, {Artocarpus heterophyllus}]

1: a hammer driven by compressed air [syn: {air hammer}, {pneumatic hammer}]

1: United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972) [syn: {Robinson}, {Jack Roosevelt Robinson}]

1: slang terms for masturbation [syn: {jerking off}, {hand job}, {wank}]

1: a large knife with one or more folding blades [syn: {clasp knife}] 2: a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out v : dive into the water bending the body at the wa...

1: marine clam having a long narrow curved thin shell [syn: {razor clam}, {knife-handle}]

1: black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin [syn: {Equetus lanceolatus}]

{jackknife}

1: a light used as lure in hunting or fishing at night v : hunt with a jacklight [syn: {jack}]

1: the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) [syn: {pot}, {kitty}] 2: any outstanding award

1: large hare of western North America

1: plaything consisting of small 6-pointed metal pieces that are used (along with a ball) to play the game of jacks [syn: {jackstones}] 2: a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in variou...

{jack-in-the-box}

1: screw-operated jack [syn: {screw jack}]

1: large silversides of Pacific coast of North America [syn: {Atherinopsis californiensis}]

1: a small short-billed Old World snipe [syn: {half snipe}, {Limnocryptes minima}] 2: American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting [syn: {pectoral sandpiper}, {Calidris melanotos}]

1: English film actress who later became a member of Parliament (born in 1936) [syn: {Glenda Jackson}] 2: United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly succes...

1: United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956) [syn: {Pollock}]

1: genus of yellow-flowered Australian unarmed or spiny shrubs without true leaves but having leaflike stems or branches [syn: {genus Jacksonia}]

1: of or pertaining to Andrew Jackson or his presidency or his concepts of popular democracy

1: focal epilepsy in which the attack usually moves from distal to proximal limb muscles on the same side of the body

1: Florida's largest city; a port and important commercial center in northeastern Florida

1: plaything consisting of small 6-pointed metal pieces that are used (along with a ball) to play the game of jacks [syn: {jacks}] 2: a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various gro...

1: a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws [syn: {spillikin}]

1: a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others [syn: {spillikins}]

1: French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920) [syn: {Francois Jacob}] 2: (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patria...

1: British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959) [syn: {Epstein}, {Sir Jacob Epstein}]

1: Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609) [syn: {Arminius}, {Jacobus Arminius}, {Jakob Hermandszoon}]

1: pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers [syn: {Greek valerian}, {charity}, {Polemonium caeruleum}, {Polemonium van-bruntiae}, {Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae}] 2: (...

1: asphodel having erect smooth unbranched stem either flexuous or straight

1: 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 [syn: {ocotillo}, {coachwhip}, {v...

1: of or relating to James I or his reign or times; "Jacobean writers" n : any distinguished personage during the reign of James I

1: Mexican bulbous herb cultivated for its handsome bright red solitary flower [syn: {Aztec lily}, {Strekelia formosissima}]

1: German mathematician (1804-1851) [syn: {Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi}]

1: a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

1: of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; "Jacobinic terrorism" [syn: {Jacobinical}]

1: of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; "Jacobinic terrorism" [syn: {Jacobinic}]

1: the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror

1: a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts

1: English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943) [syn: {W. W. Jacobs}, {William Wymark Jacobs}] 2: United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916) [syn: {Jane Jacobs}] 3: Dutch ...

1: Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609) [syn: {Arminius}, {Jacob Harmensen}, {Jakob Hermandszoon}]

1: a lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and slightly stiff finish; used for clothing and bandages

1: Italian painter of the Venetian school (1518-1594) [syn: {Tintoretto}]