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
jidda
- n port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca
jews' harp
- n a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity
jezebel
- n wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC)
- n a shameless impudent scheming woman
jfk
- n 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)
jhvh
- n a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH
ji
- n a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia