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kamet
  • n  a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)
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katsina
  • n  a city in northern Nigeria; a major center of the Hausa people
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jacques loeb
  • n  United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924)
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jacobite
  • n  a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts
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jacobinism
  • n  the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror
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jacobs
  • n  English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)
  • n  United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)
  • n  Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)
  • n  French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
  • n  (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God')
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jacobus arminius
  • n  Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609)
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jaconet
  • n  a lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and slightly stiff finish; used for clothing and bandages
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jacopo robusti
  • n  Italian painter of the Venetian school (1518-1594)
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jacquard
  • n  French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
  • n  a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
  • n  a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics
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