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Iyyar
- noun - the eighth month of the civil year; the second month of the ecclesiastical year (in April and May)
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.
Jafar
- noun - Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends (1965-2000)
Jalap
- - A purgative drug, obtained from the tuberous roots of a Mexican climbing plant ( Ipomoca purga )
- The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipom (or Exogonium purga) of the family Convolvulaceae, a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative (cathartic) medicines, and are also called jalap. Other species of Ipom yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the Ipom, and Ipom.
Japan
- noun - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building
- a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
- coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan
- lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient
- lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer
Javan
- adjective - a native or inhabitant of Java
- of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants or its language; "Javanese temples"; "Javanese dialects"
Jawan
- noun - (India) a private soldier or male constable
Jehad
- noun - a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal
- a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
Jihad
- noun - a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal
- a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
Jonah
- noun - (Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to become a prophet so God caused a great storm to throw him overboard from a ship; he was saved by being swallowed by a whale that vomited him out onto dry land
- a book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale
- a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him