kamet
- n a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)
katsina
- n a city in northern Nigeria; a major center of the Hausa people
jacques loeb
- n United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924)
jacaranda
- n an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
jack
- n a small worthless amount
you don't know jack - n a man who serves as a sailor
- n someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
- n immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
- n a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
- n an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
- n game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
- n small flag indicating a ship's nationality
- n one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
- n tool for exerting pressure or lifting
- n any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
- n male donkey
- v lift with a special device
jack up the car so you can change the tire - v hunt with a jacklight
jack-a-lantern
- n a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent
jack-in-the-box
- n plaything consisting of a toy clown that jumps out of a box when the lid is opened
jack-in-the-pulpit
- n common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
- n common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
jack-o'-lantern
- n a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground
- n lantern carved from a pumpkin