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joint-venture: joint venture (a cooperative business partnership)
jointif: joined (together); contiguous
jointivement: contiguously
jointoyer: to grout; to point (brickwork)
jointure: joint
jojo: cool, nice, good
joke: joke
joker: joker; wildcard; lifeline; blank tile
joli: pretty; cute; jolly, nice, pleasant, agreeable
joli cœur: a gallant, flirty man; synonym of bois de joli cœur (Pittosporum senacia Putt.)
jolibois: mezereon
jolie laide: unconventionally attractive
jolie laide: A woman who is unconventionally attractive.
joliesse: prettiness
joliment: prettily, cutely; extremely
jolokia: ghost pepper (“bhut jolokia”); ellipsis of piment jolokia
jonc: rush, bulrush; cane, rattan; trim (of a car); bangle, ring; gold, object made of gold
jonchaie: reed plantation
joncher: to scatter, sprinkle (e.g. flowers); to cover, litter, to be strewn over (be widespread, be sprawled across/around)
jonchée: a kind of fresh cheese from the Charente-Maritime department of France.
joncier: Spanish broom
jonction: junction; link-up
jonctionnement: jointing
jonglage: juggling
jongler: to juggle; to entertain; to think about, to worry about; to think of, to think about; to think, to meditate, to reflect, to ponder, to worry
jonglerie: juggling
jongleur: an entertainer; a juggler; a daydreamer
jonque: junk (type of ship)
jonquille: jonquil, daffodil
jordanien: Jordanian
jordanisation: Jordanization
jordaniser: to Jordanize
jorkyball: a modified form of two-on-two association football influenced by squash and played in a four-walled court
joséphisme: Josephinism
jota: jota (dance)
jouabilité: playability, gameplay
jouable: playable; feasible
joual: joual; horse
joual: joual
jouasse: content, satisfied
joubarbe: houseleek; Jupiter's beard
joue: cheek
jouer: to play (engage in games or play); to play (produce music from a musical instrument); to play (a role); to bid (money), gamble; to be close to the end, to be only a matter of time, be decided (as a fate)
jouer au chat et à la souris: to play cat and mouse
jouer au docteur: to play doctor (to pretend to be doctor and patient as a form of child play); to play doctor (to engage in sexual role-play of a medical nature)
jouer avec le feu: to play with fire
jouer cartes sur table: to play it straight, to play fair (to be upfront, honest; to act in a straightforward, candid manner, without concealing anything)
jouer de la harpe: To steal, to pickpocket.
jouer de la harpe: To be in prison; incarcerated, behind bars.
jouer des coudes: to elbow one's way through, to jostle for position, to push and shove; to elbow one's way to the top
jouer des tours: to play tricks on (to deceive or mislead)
jouer franc jeu: to play it straight, to play fair
jouer gros jeu: to play big, to play for high stakes
jouer la belle: to play the decider, to play a tiebreaker
jouer la carte de: to play the … card
jouer la comédie: to put on an act; to dive (to imitate a foul)
jouer la montre: to run out the clock, to play for time, to play the waiting game, to use delaying tactics, to stall
jouer le jeu: to play the game, to play by the rules, to observe the rules of the game; to play along, to go along, to play ball
jouer les gros bras: to act tough
jouer petit bras: to play it safe; to be unambitious