Jamaica shorts
1: (usually in the plural) short pants that end at the knee [syn: {Bermuda shorts}]
Jamaica sorrel
1: 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 [syn: {roselle}, {rozelle}, {sorrel}, {red sor...
Jamaican
1: of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or to its inhabitants; "Jamaican rum"; "the Jamaican Prime Minister" n : a native or inhabitant of Jamaica
Jamaican capital
1: capital and largest city of Jamaica [syn: {Kingston}, {capital of Jamaica}]
Jamaican cherry
1: 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 [syn: {calabur tree}, {calab...
jamais vu
1: the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; associated with certain types of epilepsy
jamb
1: upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame
jambalaya
1: spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery
jambeau
1: armor plate that protects legs below the knee [syn: {greave}, {greaves}] [also: {jambeaux} (pl)]
jamberry
1: Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes [syn: {tomatillo}, {miltomate}, {purple ground cherry}, {Physalis philadelphica}] ...
jambon
1: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: {ham}, {gammon}]
jamboree
1: a gay festivity [syn: {gala}, {gala affair}, {blowout}]
Jambos
1: used in some classifications for rose apples (Eugenia jambos) [syn: {genus Jambos}]
jambosa
1: tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit [syn: {rose apple}, {rose-apple tree}, {Eugenia jambos}]
James
1: 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) [syn:...
James A. Garfield
1: 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881) [syn: {Garfield}, {James Garfield}, {James Abraham Garfield}, {President Garfield}]
James Abraham Garfield
1: 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881) [syn: {Garfield}, {James Garfield}, {James A. Garfield}, {President Garfield}]
James Agee
1: United States novelist (1909-1955) [syn: {Agee}]
James Albert Michener
1: United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997) [syn: {Michener}, {James Michener}]
James Alfred Van Allen
1: United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914) [syn: {Van Allen}]
James Arthur Baldwin
1: United States author who was an outspoken citic of racism (1924-1987) [syn: {Baldwin}, {James Baldwin}]
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
1: influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941) [syn: {Joyce}, {James Joyce}]
James Augustus Henry Murray
1: Scottish philologist and first lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) [syn: {Murray}, {James Murray}, {James Augustus Murray}, {Sir James Murray}, {Sir James Augustus Murray}, {...
James Augustus Murray
1: Scottish philologist and first lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) [syn: {Murray}, {James Murray}, {James Augustus Henry Murray}, {Sir James Murray}, {Sir James Augustus Murr...
James Baldwin
1: United States author who was an outspoken citic of racism (1924-1987) [syn: {Baldwin}, {James Arthur Baldwin}]
James Barrie
1: Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937) [syn: {Barrie}, {J. M. Barrie}, {James Matthew Barrie}, {Sir James Matthew Barrie}]
James Bay
1: the southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario
James Bernoulli
1: Swiss mathematician (1654-1705) [syn: {Bernoulli}, {Jakob Bernoulli}, {Jacques Bernoulli}]
James Bond
1: British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming [syn: {Bond}]
James Boswell
1: Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795) [syn: {Boswell}]
James Bowie
1: 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) [syn: {Bowie}, {Jim Bowi...
James Buchanan
1: 15th President of the United States (1791-1868) [syn: {Buchanan}, {President Buchanan}]
James Buchanan Brady
1: United States financier noted for his love of diamonds and his extravagant lifestyle (1856-1917) [syn: {Brady}, {Diamond Jim Brady}, {Diamond Jim}]
James Butler Hickock
1: frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876) [syn: {Hickock}, {Wild Bill Hickock}]
James Byron Dean
1: United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955) [syn: {Dean}, {James Dean}]
James Cagney
1: United States film actor known for his portrayals of tough characters (1899-1986) [syn: {Cagney}, {Jimmy Cagney}]
James Clark Ross
1: 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) [syn: {Ross}, {Sir James Clark Ross...
James Clerk Maxwell
1: Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879) [syn: {Maxwell}, {J. C. Maxwell}]
James Cleveland Owens
1: United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980) [syn: {Owens}, {Jesse Owens}]
James Cook
1: English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) [syn: {Cook}, {Captain Cook}, {Captain James Cook}]
James Crichton
1: Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582) [syn: {Crichton}, {The Admirable Crichton}]
James Dean
1: United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955) [syn: {Dean}, {James Byron Dean}]
James Dewey Watson
1: United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928) [syn: {Watson}, {James Watson}]
James Earl Carter
1: 39th President of the United States (1924-) [syn: {Carter}, {Jimmy Carter}, {James Earl Carter Jr.}, {President Carter}]
James Earl Carter Jr.
1: 39th President of the United States (1924-) [syn: {Carter}, {Jimmy Carter}, {James Earl Carter}, {President Carter}]
James Edmund Scripps
1: United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908) [syn: {Scripps}]
James Edward Meade
1: English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907) [syn: {Meade}]
James Fenimore Cooper
1: United States novelist noted for his stories of indians and the frontier life (1789-1851) [syn: {Cooper}]
James Franck
1: 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-...
James Garfield
1: 20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881) [syn: {Garfield}, {James A. Garfield}, {James Abraham Garfield}, {President Garfield}]
James George Frazer
1: English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941) [syn: {Frazer}, {Sir James George Frazer}]
James Grover Thurber
1: United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961) [syn: {Thurber}, {James Thurber}]
James Hargreaves
1: English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778) [syn: {Hargreaves}]
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James Harold Doolittle
1: 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) [syn: {Doolittle}, {Jimmy Doolittle}]
James Harvey Robinson
1: United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936) [syn: {Robinson}]
James Henry Leigh Hunt
1: British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) [syn: {Hunt}, {Leigh Hunt}]
James Hogg
1: Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835) [syn: {Hogg}]
James Howard Meredith
1: United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933) [syn: {Meredith}, {James Meredith}]
James Hutton
1: Scottish geologist who described the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth (1726-1797) [syn: {Hutton}]
James I
1: 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 t...
James II
1: the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)
James IV
1: 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)
James Ives
1: United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895) [syn: {Ives}, {James Merritt Ives}]
James Jerome Hill
1: United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916) [syn: {Hill}, {J. J. Hill}]
James John Corbett
1: United States heavyweight boxing champion (1866-1933) [syn: {Corbett}, {Jim Corbett}, {Gentleman Jim}]
James Joseph Tunney
1: United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Dempsey twice (1898-1978) [syn: {Tunney}, {Gene Tunney}]
James Joyce
1: influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941) [syn: {Joyce}, {James Augustine Aloysius Joyce}]
James K. Polk
1: 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) [syn: {Polk}, {James Polk}, {James Knox Polk}, {P...
James Knox Polk
1: 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) [syn: {Polk}, {James Polk}, {James K. Polk}, {Pre...
James Leonard Farmer
1: United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) [syn: {Farmer}]
James Madison
1: 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) [syn: {Madison}, {Preside...
James Maitland Stewart
1: United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997) [syn: {Stewart}, {Jimmy Stewart}]
James Marshall Hendrix
1: United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970) [syn: {Hendrix}, {Jimi Hendrix}]
James Mason
1: English film actor (1909-1984) [syn: {Mason}, {James Neville Mason}]
James Matthew Barrie
1: Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937) [syn: {Barrie}, {James Barrie}, {J. M. Barrie}, {Sir James Matthew Barrie}]
James Meredith
1: United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933) [syn: {Meredith}, {James Howard Meredith}]
James Merritt Ives
1: United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895) [syn: {Ives}, {James Ives}]
James Michener
1: United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997) [syn: {Michener}, {James Albert Michener}]
James Mill
1: Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836) [syn: {Mill}]
James Monroe
1: 5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine (1758-1831) [syn: {Monroe}, {President Monroe}]
James Murray
1: Scottish philologist and first lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) [syn: {Murray}, {James Augustus Murray}, {James Augustus Henry Murray}, {Sir James Murray}, {Sir James Augu...
James Naismith
1: United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939) [syn: {Naismith}]
James Polk
1: 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) [syn: {Polk}, {James K. Polk}, {James Knox Polk},...
James Prescott Joule
1: English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889) [syn: {Joule}]
James Riddle Hoffa
1: 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) [syn: {Hoffa}, ...
James River
1: a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads [syn: {James}] 2: a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri [syn: {James}]
James Scott Connors
1: outstanding United States tennis player (born in 1952) [syn: {Connors}, {Jimmy Conors}]
James Thomas Harris
1: Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931) [syn: {Harris}, {Frank Harris}]
James Thurber
1: United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961) [syn: {Thurber}, {James Grover Thurber}]
James Tobin
1: United States economist (1918-2002) [syn: {Tobin}]
James Usher
1: Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656) [syn: {Ussher}, {James Ussher}, {Usher}]
James Ussher
1: Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656) [syn: {Ussher}, {Usher}, {James Usher}]
James Watson
1: United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928) [syn: {Watson}, {James Dewey Watson}]
James Watt
1: Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) [syn: {Watt}]
James William Fulbright
1: 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) [syn: {Fulbright}, ...
James Wilson
1: American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798) [syn: {Wilson}]
James Wyatt
1: English architect (1746-1813) [syn: {Wyatt}]
Jamesonia
1: xerophytic ferns of South America [syn: {genus Jamesonia}]
Jamestown
1: 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
1: intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits [syn: {jimsonweed}, {jimson weed}, {common thorn a...
Jamison
1: United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1944) [syn: {Judith Jamison}]
jamjar
1: a jar for holding jellies or preserves [syn: {jampot}]
jammer
1: a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming
jammies
1: loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers [syn: {pajamas}, {pyjamas}, {pj's}]
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