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
james michener
- n United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997)
jane doe
- n an unknown or fictitious woman who is a party to legal proceedings
jalousie
- n a window with glass louvers
- n a shutter made of angled slats
jam
- n preserve of crushed fruit
- n informal terms for a difficult situation
- n a dense crowd of people
- n deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
- v press tightly together or cram
- v push down forcibly
The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor - v crush or bruise
jam a toe - v interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- v get stuck and immobilized
the mechanism jammed - v crowd or pack to capacity
the theater was jampacked - v block passage through
jamaat ul-fuqra
- n 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