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
jiddah
- n port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca
jiffy
- n a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
jig
- n music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- n a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- n a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- n any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- v dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
jigger
- n a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- n any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
- n larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
jiggermast
- n any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
jiggery-pokery
- n verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way