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
joker
- n a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- n a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
some joker is blocking the driveway - n an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent
when I demanded my money he showed me the joker in the contract - n a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
joliet
- n French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)
joliot
- n French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)
joliot-curie
- n French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956)
- n French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)