jello

fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder ;

jelly

a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit ; an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods ; a substance having the consistency of semisolid foods ;

jelly bean

sugar-glazed jellied candy ;

jelly doughnut

a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam ;

jelly egg

sugar-glazed jellied candy ;

jelly fungus

any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh ;

jelly roll morton

United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941) ;

jellyfish

any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans ; large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles ;

jellyleaf

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 ;

jellyroll

thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake ;

jem

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

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 Indonesia ;

jemmy

a short crowbar; "in England they call a jimmy and jemmy" ;

jena

the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians ;

jenghiz khan

Mongolian emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227) ;

jenner

English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823) ;

jennet

female donkey ;

jenny

female donkey ; United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907) ;

jenny ass

female donkey ;

jenny lind

Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887) ;

jenny wren

and of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects ;

jens otto harry jespersen

Danish linguist (1860-1943) ;

jensen

modernistic Danish writer (1873-1950) ;

jeopardy

a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" ;

jerboa

mouselike jumping rodent ;

jerboa kangaroo

brush-tailed rat kangaroo ;

jerboa rat

large Australian rat with hind legs adapted for leaping ;

jeremiad

a long and mournful complaint; "a jeremiad against any form of government" ;

jeremiah

a book in the Old Testament containing the oracles of the prophet Jeremiah ; (Old Testament) an Israelite prophet who is remembered for his angry lamentations (jeremiads) about the wickedness of his people (circa 626-587 BC) ;

jeremy bentham

English philosopher and jurist; founder of utilitarianism (1748-1831) ;

jerevan

capital of Armenia ;

jerez

a city in southwestern Spain that is famous for making sherry ;

jerez de la frontera

a city in southwestern Spain that is famous for making sherry ;

jericho

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 they entered the Promised Land ;

jerk

a sudden abrupt pull ; an abrupt spasmodic movement ; raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms ; meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun ; a dull stupid fatuous person ; (mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration ;

jerk-off

terms of abuse for a masturbator ;

jerked meat

meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun ;

jerker

someone who gives a strong sudden pull ;

jerkin

a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times ;

jerkiness

the quality of being spasmodic and irregular ;