jakob hermandszoon

Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609) ;

jakob liebmann beer

German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864) ;

jakob ludwig felix mendelssohn-bartholdy

German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847) ;

jakob ludwig karl grimm

the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863) ;

jakobson

United States linguist (born in Russia) noted for his description of the universals of phonology (1896-1982) ;

jalalabad

a town in eastern Afghanistan (east of Kabul) ;

jalapeno

hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico ; plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red ;

jalapeno pepper

hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico ;

jalopy

a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus" ;

jalousie

a shutter made of angled slats ; a window with glass louvers ;

jam

deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems ; preserve of crushed fruit ; a dense crowd of people ; informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" ;

jam session

an impromptu jazz concert ;

jamaat ul-fuqra

an Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North America and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attack other Muslims who they regard as heretics ;

jamaica

an island in the West Indies south of Cuba and west of Haiti ; a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism ;

jamaica apple

large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft acid pulp ;

jamaica bayberry

West Indian tree; source of bay rum ;

jamaica caper tree

shrub of southern Florida to West Indies ;

jamaica dogwood

small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons ;

jamaica honeysuckle

West Indian passionflower; cultivated for its yellow edible fruit ;

jamaica quassia

West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia ; similar to the extract from Quassia amara ;

jamaica rum

heavy pungent rum from Jamaica ;

jamaica shorts

short pants that end at the knee ;

jamaica sorrel

East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber ;

jamaican

a native or inhabitant of Jamaica ;

jamaican capital

capital and largest city of Jamaica ;

jamaican cherry

a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves ;

jamaican dollar

the basic unit of money in Jamaica ;

jamais vu

the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; associated with certain types of epilepsy ;

jamb

upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame ;

jambalaya

spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery ;

jambeau

armor plate that protects legs below the knee ;

jamberry

annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes ; Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes ;

jambon

meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) ;

jamboree

a gay festivity ;

jambos

used in some classifications for rose apples (Eugenia jambos) ;

jambosa

tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit ;

james

a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle ; a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri ; a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads ; (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament ; writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916) ; United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910) ; United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882) ; the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625) ; the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701) ; a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513) ;

james a. garfield

20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881) ;

james abbott mcneill whistler

United States painter (1834-1903) ;

james abraham garfield

20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881) ;