Jean Luc Godard
1: French film maker influenced by surrealism; early work explored the documentary use of film; noted for innovative techniques (born in 1930) [syn: {Godard}]
Jean Martin Charcot
1: French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893) [syn: {Charcot}]
Jean Monnet
1: French economist who advocated a Common Market in Europe (1888-1979) [syn: {Monnet}]
Jean Paul Marat
1: 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) [syn: {Marat}]
Jean Piaget
1: Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980) [syn: {Piaget}]
Jean Racine
1: French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699) [syn: {Racine}, {Jean Baptiste Racine}]
Jean Sibelius
1: Finnish composer (1865-1957) [syn: {Sibelius}, {Johan Julius Christian Sibelius}]
Jean-Claude Duvalier
1: son and successor of Francois Duvalier as president of Haiti; he was overthrown by a mass uprising in 1986 (born in 1951) [syn: {Duvalier}, {Baby Doc}]
Jean-Frederic Joliot
1: 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 r...
Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie
1: 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 r...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1: 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) [syn: {Rousseau}]
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
1: United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969) [syn: {Kerouac}, {Jack Kerouac}]
Jean-Paul Sartre
1: French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980) [syn: {Sartre}]
Jean-Philippe Rameau
1: French composer of operas whose writings laid the foundation for the modern theory of harmony (1683-1764) [syn: {Rameau}]
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson
1: French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764) [syn: {Pompadour}, {Marquise de Pompdour}]
Jeanne d'Arc
1: 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 ...
Jeannette Rankin
1: leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973) [syn: {Rankin}]
Jebel Musa
1: a promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar; one of the Pillars of Hercules [syn: {Abila}, {Abyla}]
Jed'dah
1: port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca [syn: {Jeddah}, {Jiddah}, {Jidda}]
Jeddah
1: port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca [syn: {Jed'dah}, {Jiddah}, {Jidda}]
jeep
1: a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain [syn: {landrover}]
jeer
1: showing your contempt by derision [syn: {jeering}, {mockery}, {scoff}, {scoffing}] v : laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" [syn: {scoff}, {flout}, {barrack}, {gib...
jeerer
1: someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision [syn: {scoffer}, {flouter}, {mocker}]
jeering
1: abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn: {derisive}, {gibelike}, {mocking}, {ta...
jeeringly
1: in a disrespectful jeering manner [syn: {mockingly}, {gibingly}]
Jeffers
1: United States poet who wrote about California (1887-1962) [syn: {Robinson Jeffers}, {John Robinson Jeffers}]
Jefferson
1: 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) [syn:...
Jefferson City
1: capital of the state of Missouri; located in central Missouri on the Missouri river [syn: {capital of Missouri}]
Jefferson Davis
1: iAmerican statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War (1808-1889) [syn: {Davis}]
Jeffersonian
1: relating to or characteristic of Thomas Jefferson or his principles or theories; "Jeffersonian democracy"
Jeffrey pine
1: 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 pond...
Jeffrey's pine
1: 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 pond...
jehad
1: a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels [syn: {jihad}, {international jihad}] 2: a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal [syn: {jihad}]
Jehovah
1: a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH [syn: {Yahweh}, {YHWH}, {Yahwe}, {Yahveh}, {YHVH}, {Yahve}, {Wahvey}, {Jahvey}, {Jahweh}, {JHVH}] 2: terms ...
Jehovah's Witness
1: believer in imminent approach of the millennium; practitioner of active evangelism
Jehovah's Witnesses
1: Protestant denomination founded in the United States by Charles Taze Russell in 1884
jejunal artery
1: branch of the superior mesenteric artery that supplies the jejunum [syn: {intestinal artery}]
jejune
1: lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor" [syn: {insubstantial}] 2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "...
jejunely
1: in an immature manner; "his teenage son still behaves very immaturely" [syn: {immaturely}] [ant: {maturely}]
jejuneness
1: lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life [syn: {callowness}, {juvenility}] 2: the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated [syn: {jejunity}, {tameness}, {vapidity}, {vapidness}] 3: quali...
jejunitis
1: inflammation of the jejunum of the small intestine
jejunity
1: the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated [syn: {jejuneness}, {tameness}, {vapidity}, {vapidness}] 2: quality of lacking nutritive value [syn: {jejuneness}]
jejunoileitis
1: inflammation of the jejunum and the ileum of the small intestine
jejunostomy
1: surgical creation of an opening between the jejunum and the anterior abdominal wall; will allow artificial feeding
jejunum
1: the part of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum
jell
1: become gelatinous; "the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme" [syn: {set}, {congeal}]
Jell-O
1: fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder [syn: {jello}]
jellaba
1: a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa
jelled
1: congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling; "in Georgia they serve congealed salads" [syn: {congealed}, {jellied}]
jellify
1: become jelly; "The sauce jellified" 2: make into jelly; "jellify a liquid" [syn: {jelly}] [also: {jellified}]
jello
1: fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder [syn: {Jell-O}]
jelly
1: a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit 2: an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods [syn: {gelatin}] 3: a substance havin...
jelly bean
1: sugar-glazed jellied candy [syn: {jelly egg}]
jelly doughnut
1: a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam [syn: {Berlin doughnut}, {bismark}]
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jelly egg
1: sugar-glazed jellied candy [syn: {jelly bean}]
jelly fungus
1: any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh
Jelly Roll Morton
1: United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941) [syn: {Morton}, {Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton}]
jellyfish
1: large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles [syn: {Portuguese man-of-war}, {man-of-war}] 2: any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute t...
jellyleaf
1: 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 [syn: {Queensland hemp}...
jellylike
1: thick like gelatin [syn: {gelatinous}, {gelatinlike}]
jellyroll
1: thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake [syn: {Swiss roll}]
JEM
1: 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
1: 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 I...
jemmy
1: a short crowbar; "in England they call a jimmy and jemmy" [syn: {jimmy}] [also: {jemmied}]
Jena
1: the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians [syn: {Battle of Jena}]
Jenghiz Khan
1: Mongolian Emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227) [syn: {Genghis Khan}, {Jinghis Khan}]
Jenner
1: English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823) [syn: {Edward Jenner}]
jennet
1: female donkey [syn: {jenny}, {jenny ass}]
Jenny
1: United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907) [syn: {William Le Baron Jenny}] 2: female donkey [syn: {jennet}, {jenny ass}]
jenny ass
1: female donkey [syn: {jennet}, {jenny}]
Jenny Lind
1: Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887) [syn: {Lind}, {Swedish Nightingale}]
jenny wren
1: and of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects [syn: {wren}]
Jensen
1: modernistic Danish writer (1873-1950) [syn: {Johannes Vilhelm Jensen}]
jeopardise
1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: {endanger}, {jeopardize}, {menace}, {threaten}, {imperil}, {peril}]
jeopardize
1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: {endanger}, {jeopardise}, {menace}, {threaten}, {imperil}, {peril}] 2: put at risk; "I will stake my good reput...
jeopardy
1: a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" [syn: {hazard}, {peril}, {risk}]
jerboa
1: mouselike jumping rodent
jerboa rat
1: large Australian rat with hind legs adapted for leaping
jeremiad
1: a long and mournful complaint; "a jeremiad against any form of government"
Jeremiah
1: (Old Testament) an Israelite prophet who is remembered for his angry lamentations (jeremiads) about the wickedness of his people (circa 626-587 BC) 2: a book in the Old Testament containing the ora...
Jeremy Bentham
1: English philosopher and jurist; founder of utilitarianism (1748-1831) [syn: {Bentham}]
Jerevan
1: capital of Armenia [syn: {Yerevan}, {Erivan}, {capital of Armenia}]
Jerez
1: a city in southwestern Spain that is famous for making sherry [syn: {Jerez de la Frontera}]
Jerez de la Frontera
1: a city in southwestern Spain that is famous for making sherry [syn: {Jerez}]
Jericho
1: 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
1: a dull stupid fatuous person [syn: {dork}] 2: an abrupt spasmodic movement [syn: {jerking}, {jolt}] 3: (mechanics) the rate of change of velocity [syn: {rate of acceleration}] 4: a sudden abrupt pu...
jerk off
1: get sexual gratification through self-stimulation [syn: {masturbate}, {wank}, {fuck off}, {she-bop}, {jack off}]
jerk-off
1: terms of abuse for a masturbator [syn: {tosser}, {wanker}]
jerked meat
1: meat cut in strips and dried in the sun [syn: {jerky}]
jerker
1: someone who gives a strong sudden pull [syn: {yanker}]
jerkily
1: with spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner" [syn: {spasmodically}] 2: with jerking motions; "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat"
jerkin
1: a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times
jerkiness
1: the quality of being spasmodic and irregular [syn: {fitfulness}]
jerking
1: not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn: {arrhythmic}, {jerky}, {unsteady}] n : an abrupt spasmodic movement [syn: {jerk}, {jolt}]
jerking off
1: slang terms for masturbation [syn: {jacking off}, {hand job}, {wank}]
jerkwater
1: small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" [syn: {one-horse}, {pokey}, {poky}]
jerky
1: not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn: {arrhythmic}, {jerking}, {unsteady}] n : meat cut in strips and dried in the sun [syn: {jerked meat}] [also: {jerkiest}, {jerkier}]
Jeroboam
1: (Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC) [syn: {Jeroboam I}] 2: a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon) [syn: {double-magnum}]
Jeroboam I
1: (Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC) [syn: {Jeroboam}]
Jerom Bos
1: Dutch painter (1450-1516) [syn: {Bosch}, {Hieronymus Bosch}]
Jerome
1: (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 ...
Jerome David Kern
1: United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945) [syn: {Kern}, {Jerome Kern}]
Jerome Kern
1: United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945) [syn: {Kern}, {Jerome David Kern}]
Jerome Robbins
1: United States choreographer who brought human emotion to classical ballet and spirited reality to Broadway musicals (1918-1998) [syn: {Robbins}]
Jerry
1: offensive terms for a person of German descent [syn: {Kraut}, {Krauthead}, {Boche}, {Hun}]
Jerry Lee Lewis
1: United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935) [syn: {Lewis}]
jerry-builder
1: someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit
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