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Iambi
- noun - a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
Iambs
- unknown - metrical feet used in various types of poetry.
Ianfu
- noun - a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II; "she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman"
Jabot
- noun - a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt
Jacal
- - In Mexico and the southwestern United States, a kind of plastered house or hut, usually made by planting poles or timber in the ground, filling in between them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.
Jacks
- noun - a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball
- a man who serves as a sailor
- a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
- a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"
- an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
- any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
- game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
- hunt with a jacklight
- immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
- lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire"
- male donkey
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
- small flag indicating a ship's nati
Jacky
- - Dim. or pet from Jack. Hence: (a) A landsman's nickname for a seaman, resented by the latter. (b) English gin.
Jacob
- noun - (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')
- French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
Jaded
- verb - dulled by surfeit; "the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes"
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
- exhausted; "my father's words had left me jaded and depressed"- William Styron
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"
Jades
- noun - a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green
- a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite
- a woman adulterer
- an old or over-worked horse
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"