A Brazilian plant, the cricket-vine (Fridericia chica).
A red pigment extracted from the leaves of this plant.
carcajou
carcajou
noun
Synonym of wolverine (a solitary, fierce member of the weasel family)
carijona
crackjaw
crackjaw
adj
Difficult or unpleasant to pronounce.
hijacker
hijacker
noun
(computing) Hijackware.
Someone who hijacks.
jacamars
jacamars
noun
plural of jacamar
jacitara
jacitara
noun
The jacitara palm
jackaroo
jackaroo
noun
(Australia) A trainee station manager or owner, working as a stockman or farm hand; formerly, a young man of independent means working at a station in a supernumerary capacity to gain experience.
(Australia, Queensland, obsolete) A white man living outside of a white settlement.
verb
(intransitive) To work as a jackaroo.
jackbird
jackbird
noun
A saddleback (Philesturnus) in its first-year plumage, once thought to be a separate species.
jackeroo
jackeroo
noun
Alternative spelling of jackaroo
jackhorn
jackroll
jackroll
verb
(transitive) To rob or mug (a person).
(transitive, South Africa) To perpetrate male gang rape against women (jackrolling).
jackyard
jackyard
noun
(nautical) A spar at the top of a mast that supports a topsail
jacquard
jacquard
noun
(countable) A Jacquard loom.
Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process.
Fabric woven on a Jacquard loom.
janerich
jararaca
jararaca
noun
A species of venomous snake found in South America, Bothrops jararaca.
jargonic
jargonic
adj
Of or pertaining to a language to be described as jargon.
Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.
jerrican
jerrycan
jerrycan
noun
A robust fuel container often made from pressed steel.
jimcrack
jimcrack
adj
Alternative spelling of gimcrack
jocatory
jurassic
jurassic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.
Of or pertaining to the people or region near the Jura Mountain Range of Europe.
Proper noun
The period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period.
majorcan
majorcan
Adjective
From, or pertaining to, Majorca.
Noun
Someone from Majorca.
rejacket
rejacket
verb
(transitive) To cover (a book, etc.) with a new jacket.
scramjet
scramjet
noun
(aeronautics) A jet engine capable of propelling an aircraft at hypersonic speeds, in which combustion of the fuel/air mixture occurs at supersonic speeds.