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
jester
- n a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
jesuit's bark
- n medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine
jesuit order
- n a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship
jesuitism
- n the theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic)
jesuitry
- n the theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic)
jesus
- n a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)