8-letter words starting with J
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter J. This section showcases how J at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with J, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| judgment | 19 | the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | they criticized my judgment of the contestants |
| jealousy | 18 | a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) | - |
| juvenile | 18 | displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | their behavior was juvenile |
| johannes | 18 | - | - |
| jeopardy | 21 | a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | - |
| junction | 17 | the state of being joined together | - |
| judicial | 18 | relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | judicial system |
| jeanette | 15 | - | - |
| jingling | 17 | having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | jingling sleigh bells |
| junkyard | 23 | a field where junk is collected and stored for resale | - |
| juggling | 18 | the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | - |
| juncture | 17 | an event that occurs at a critical time | at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave |
| jurassic | 17 | from 190 million to 135 million years ago; dinosaurs; conifers | - |
| jeweller | 18 | someone who makes jewelry | - |
| jumpsuit | 19 | one-piece garment fashioned after a parachutist's uniform | - |
| joystick | 24 | a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | - |
| jailbird | 18 | a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly | - |
| joyfully | 24 | in a joyous and gleeful manner | - |
| jamboree | 19 | a gay festivity | - |
| jangling | 17 | like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | cowboys with jangling spurs |
| jokingly | 23 | not seriously | - |
| jaundice | 18 | yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | - |
| jalapeno | 17 | plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red | - |
| jettison | 15 | throw as from an airplane | - |
| jailbait | 17 | - | - |
| joyously | 21 | in a joyous and gleeful manner | - |
| jubilant | 17 | full of high-spirited delight | - |
| jacketed | 22 | - | - |
| jacquard | 27 | French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834) | - |
| jokester | 19 | a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes | - |
| jostling | 16 | the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | - |
| juiciest | 17 | - | - |
| jackboot | 23 | (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot | - |
| jerrycan | 20 | - | - |
| jalopies | 17 | - | - |
| japonica | 19 | deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms | - |
| jetliner | 15 | a large jet plane that carries passengers | - |
| jubilate | 17 | to express great joy | - |
| julienne | 15 | a vegetable cut into thin strips (usually used as a garnish) | - |
| jalousie | 15 | a window with glass louvers | - |
| jiggered | 18 | (British informal expletive) surprised | Well I'm jiggered! |
| jatropha | 20 | a mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae | - |
| jewelled | 19 | covered with beads or jewels or sequins | - |
| jihadist | 19 | a Muslim who is involved in a jihad | - |
| jolliest | 15 | - | - |
| jovially | 21 | in a jovial manner | he greeted his friend jovially |
| jabbered | 20 | - | - |
| jabberer | 19 | someone whose talk is trivial drivel | - |
| jabbling | 20 | - | - |
| jacamars | 19 | - | - |
| jacinthe | 20 | - | - |
| jacinths | 20 | - | - |
| jackaroo | 21 | - | - |
| jackdaws | 25 | - | - |
| jackeens | 21 | - | - |
| jackeroo | 21 | - | - |
| jackfish | 27 | - | - |
| jackings | 22 | - | - |
| jacklegs | 22 | - | - |
| jackling | 22 | - | - |
| jackpots | 23 | - | - |
| jackroll | 21 | - | - |
| jacksies | 21 | - | - |
| jackstay | 24 | - | - |
| jacobins | 19 | - | - |
| jaconets | 17 | - | - |
| jaculate | 17 | - | - |
| jacuzzis | 35 | - | - |
| jadeites | 16 | - | - |
| jadelike | 20 | - | - |
| jaderies | 16 | - | - |
| jadishly | 22 | - | - |
| jaggeder | 18 | - | - |
| jaggedly | 21 | with a ragged and uneven appearance | - |
| jagghery | 23 | unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap | - |
| jaggiest | 17 | - | - |
| jaghires | 19 | - | - |
| jailable | 17 | - | - |
| jailless | 15 | - | - |
| jakfruit | 22 | - | - |
| jalapins | 17 | - | - |
| jalfrezi | 27 | - | - |
| jallebis | 17 | - | - |
| jaloused | 16 | - | - |
| jalouses | 15 | - | - |
| jamadars | 18 | - | - |
| jambarts | 19 | - | - |
| jambeaus | 19 | - | - |
| jambeaux | 26 | - | - |
| jambiers | 19 | - | - |
| jambiyah | 25 | - | - |
| jambiyas | 22 | - | - |
| jambolan | 19 | - | - |
| jambones | 19 | - | - |
| jambools | 19 | - | - |
| jamdanis | 18 | - | - |
| jammable | 21 | - | - |
| jammiest | 19 | - | - |
| jammings | 20 | - | - |
| jampanee | 19 | - | - |
| jampanis | 19 | - | - |
| janglers | 16 | - | - |
| janglier | 16 | - | - |
| janiform | 20 | - | - |
| janisary | 18 | - | - |
| janitors | 15 | - | - |
| janitrix | 22 | - | - |
| janizars | 24 | - | - |
| janizary | 27 | - | - |
| janneyed | 19 | - | - |
| jannocks | 21 | - | - |
| jannying | 19 | - | - |
| jantiest | 15 | - | - |
| japanise | 17 | - | - |
| japanize | 26 | - | - |
| japanned | 18 | - | - |
| japanner | 17 | - | - |
| japeries | 17 | - | - |
| japingly | 21 | - | - |
| jararaca | 17 | - | - |
| jararaka | 19 | - | - |
| jargoned | 17 | - | - |
| jargonel | 16 | - | - |
| jargoons | 16 | - | - |
| jarheads | 19 | - | - |
| jarldoms | 18 | - | - |
| jarosite | 15 | - | - |
| jarovise | 18 | - | - |
| jarovize | 27 | - | - |
| jarrings | 16 | - | - |
| jasmines | 17 | - | - |
| jaspises | 17 | - | - |
| jauncing | 18 | - | - |
| jaunsing | 16 | - | - |
| jauntier | 15 | - | - |
| jaunties | 15 | - | - |
| jauntily | 18 | in a jaunty fashionable manner | his hat sat jauntily on his full brown hair |
| jaunting | 16 | - | - |
| javelina | 18 | dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States | - |
| javelins | 18 | - | - |
| jawboned | 21 | - | - |
| jawboner | 20 | - | - |
| jawbones | 20 | - | - |
| jawboxes | 27 | - | - |
| jawfalls | 21 | - | - |
| jawholes | 21 | - | - |
| jawlines | 18 | - | - |
| jaybirds | 21 | - | - |
| jaywalks | 25 | - | - |
| jazerant | 24 | - | - |
| jazziest | 33 | - | - |
| jazzlike | 37 | - | - |
| jealouse | 15 | - | - |
| jeelying | 19 | - | - |
| jeepneys | 20 | - | - |
| jeerings | 16 | - | - |
| jeggings | 18 | - | - |
| jehadeen | 19 | - | - |
| jehadism | 21 | - | - |
| jehadist | 19 | - | - |
| jejunely | 25 | in an immature manner | - |
| jejunity | 25 | the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | - |
| jejunums | 24 | - | - |
| jellabah | 20 | - | - |
| jellabas | 17 | - | - |
| jellying | 19 | - | - |
| jelutong | 16 | - | - |
| jemadars | 18 | - | - |
| jemidars | 18 | - | - |
| jemmiest | 19 | - | - |
| jemmying | 23 | - | - |
| jeofails | 18 | - | - |
| jeopards | 18 | - | - |
| jeremiad | 18 | a long and mournful complaint | a jeremiad against any form of government |
| jerepigo | 18 | - | - |
| jerkiest | 19 | - | - |
| jerkings | 20 | - | - |
| jeroboam | 19 | a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon) | - |
| jerquers | 24 | - | - |
| jerquing | 25 | - | - |
| jerreeds | 16 | - | - |
| jerrican | 17 | - | - |
| jerseyed | 19 | - | - |
| jestbook | 21 | - | - |
| jestings | 16 | - | - |
| jesuitic | 17 | having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism | - |
| jesuitry | 18 | the theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic) | - |
| jetbeads | 18 | - | - |
| jetfoils | 18 | - | - |
| jetpacks | 23 | - | - |
| jetplane | 17 | - | - |
| jetports | 17 | - | - |
| jettiest | 15 | - | - |
| jettying | 19 | - | - |
| jewelers | 18 | - | - |
| jeweling | 19 | - | - |
| jezebels | 26 | - | - |
| jibbered | 20 | - | - |
| jibbings | 20 | - | - |
| jibbooms | 21 | - | - |
| jibingly | 21 | - | - |
| jickajog | 29 | - | - |
| jigaboos | 18 | - | - |
| jigajigs | 24 | - | - |
| jigajogs | 24 | - | - |
| jiggiest | 17 | - | - |
| jiggings | 18 | - | - |
| jigglier | 17 | - | - |
| jiggling | 18 | - | - |
| jigsawed | 20 | - | - |
| jihadeen | 19 | - | - |
| jihadism | 21 | - | - |
| jillaroo | 15 | - | - |
| jillions | 15 | - | - |
| jimcrack | 25 | - | - |
| jimmying | 23 | - | - |
| jimpiest | 19 | - | - |
| jimpness | 19 | - | - |
| jingalls | 16 | - | - |
| jingbang | 19 | - | - |
| jingkoes | 20 | - | - |
| jinglers | 16 | - | - |
| jinglets | 16 | - | - |
| jinglier | 16 | - | - |
| jingoish | 19 | - | - |
| jingoism | 18 | an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions | - |
| jingoist | 16 | an extreme bellicose nationalist | - |
| jinjilis | 22 | - | - |
| jinkered | 20 | - | - |
| jipijapa | 26 | - | - |
| jipyapas | 22 | - | - |
| jirbling | 18 | - | - |
| jirkinet | 19 | - | - |
| jittered | 16 | - | - |
| jiujitsu | 22 | a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | - |
| jiujutsu | 22 | - | - |
| jobation | 17 | - | - |
| jobbings | 20 | - | - |
| jobnames | 19 | - | - |
| jobshare | 20 | - | - |
| jockdoms | 24 | - | - |
| jockette | 21 | - | - |
| jockeyed | 25 | - | - |
| jockiest | 21 | - | - |
| jockneys | 24 | - | - |
| jocosely | 20 | with humor | - |
| jocosest | 17 | - | - |
| jocosity | 20 | fun characterized by humor | - |
| jocunder | 18 | - | - |
| jocundly | 21 | - | - |
| jodelled | 17 | - | - |
| jodhpurs | 21 | (used in the plural) flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots | - |
| joggings | 18 | - | - |
| jogglers | 17 | - | - |
| joggling | 18 | - | - |
| jogpants | 18 | - | - |
| jogtrots | 16 | - | - |
| johnboat | 20 | - | - |
| johnnies | 18 | - | - |
| johnsons | 18 | - | - |
| joinable | 17 | - | - |
| joinders | 16 | - | - |
| joinings | 16 | - | - |
| jointers | 15 | - | - |
| jointing | 16 | - | - |
| jointure | 15 | (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower | - |
| joisting | 16 | - | - |
| jokesome | 21 | - | - |
| jokiness | 19 | - | - |
| jolleyer | 18 | - | - |
| jolliers | 15 | - | - |
| jollyers | 18 | - | - |
| jollying | 19 | - | - |
| jolthead | 19 | - | - |
| joltiest | 15 | - | - |
| joltings | 16 | - | - |
| joncanoe | 17 | - | - |
| jonesing | 16 | - | - |
| jongleur | 16 | a singer of folk songs | - |
| jonquils | 24 | - | - |
| jordeloo | 16 | - | - |
| joshings | 19 | - | - |
| jostlers | 15 | - | - |
| jottiest | 15 | - | - |
| jottings | 16 | - | - |
| jouncier | 17 | - | - |
| jouncing | 18 | - | - |
| journals | 15 | - | - |
| journeys | 18 | - | - |
| jousters | 15 | - | - |
| jousting | 16 | - | - |
| jovialty | 21 | - | - |
| jowliest | 18 | - | - |
| joyances | 20 | - | - |
| joyrider | 19 | - | - |
| joyrides | 19 | - | - |
| jubilees | 17 | - | - |
| juddered | 18 | - | - |
| judgiest | 17 | - | - |
| judgings | 18 | - | - |
| judicare | 18 | - | - |
| judoists | 16 | - | - |
| juggings | 18 | - | - |
| jugglers | 17 | - | - |
| jugglery | 20 | artful trickery designed to achieve an end | the senator's tax program was mere jugglery |
| jugheads | 20 | - | - |
| jugulars | 16 | - | - |
| jugulate | 16 | - | - |
| jujitsus | 22 | - | - |
| jujuisms | 24 | - | - |
| jujuists | 22 | - | - |
| jujutsus | 22 | - | - |
| jukskeis | 23 | - | - |
| jumaring | 18 | - | - |
| jumarred | 18 | - | - |
| jumblers | 19 | - | - |
| jumblier | 19 | - | - |
| jumbling | 20 | - | - |
| jumboise | 19 | - | - |
| jumboize | 28 | - | - |
| jumbucks | 25 | - | - |
| jumelles | 17 | - | - |
| jumpable | 21 | - | - |
| jumpiest | 19 | - | - |
| jumpings | 20 | - | - |
| jumpoffs | 25 | - | - |
| jumprope | 21 | - | - |
| jumpshot | 22 | - | - |
| jumpsies | 19 | - | - |
| juncates | 17 | - | - |
| juncuses | 17 | - | - |
| junglier | 16 | - | - |
| junglist | 16 | - | - |
| juniored | 16 | - | - |
| junipers | 17 | - | - |
| junkanoo | 19 | - | - |
| junketed | 20 | - | - |
| junketer | 19 | - | - |
| junkiest | 19 | - | - |
| juratory | 18 | - | - |
| juristic | 17 | of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | - |
| juryless | 18 | - | - |
| jurymast | 20 | - | - |
| jussives | 18 | - | - |
| justicer | 17 | - | - |
| justices | 17 | - | - |
| justling | 16 | - | - |
| justness | 15 | conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety | it was performed with justness and beauty |
| jutelike | 19 | - | - |
| juttiest | 15 | - | - |
| juttying | 19 | - | - |
| juvenals | 18 | - | - |
