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1,021 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

Job: Job
Jobier: a surname
Jocelyn: a male given name, equivalent to English Jocelyn
Jocelyne: a female given name, masculine equivalent Jocelyn, equivalent to English Jocelyn, popular in the mid-twentieth century
Jochgoun: a male given name from Azerbaijani
Jocond: a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Jucundus
Joconde: the Mona Lisa (a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci, widely considered to be the most famous painting in history); Mona Lisa (the subject of the painting, Lisa del Giocondo, née Gherardini (1479–1542))
Joconde: alternative form of Jocond; Giocondo (a character in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso); The protagonist of the eponymous tale by Jean de La Fontaine based on Canto XXVIII of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso.; The protagonist of the eponymous comedy by François-Pierre-Auguste Léger.; The protagonist of the eponymous opera by Nicolas Isouard.
Jodoigne: Jodoigne (a city in Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium)
John: a male given name and surname in English
Johnson: a surname from English
Joigny: Joigny (a town in Yonne department, France)
Joinville: a commune of Haute-Marne department, France
Joli-Cœur: a surname
Jolibois: a surname
Jolicoeur: a surname
Jolicœur: a surname
Joliette: a regional county municipality of Lanaudière, Quebec, Canada
Joliot: a surname
Joly: a French surname, Joly
Jomard: a surname
Jonas: Jonah
Jonathan: Jonathan (Biblical character); a male given name
Jones: a surname from English
Joppé: Joppa (previous name for Jaffa)
Jordan: a male given name, equivalent to English Jordan
Jordanie: Jordan (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)
Jordanien: Jordanian person
Jordanès: a male given name of historical usage, equivalent to English Jordanes; Jordanes (a 6th-century historian)
Jorre: a surname
Jos Bleau: John Doe
Joseph: Joseph (biblical figure); a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Joseph
Josette: a diminutive of the female given name Joséphine
Josiane: a female given name
Josselin: a male given name, variant of Jocelyn
Josseline: a female given name, variant of Jocelyne
Josué: Joshua; Joshua, the sixth book of the Bible; a male given name
Josèphe: a female given name, masculine equivalent Joseph
José: a male given name
Josée: a female given name, masculine equivalent José
Joséphine: a diminutive of the female given name Josèphe, from Hebrew
Jouan: a surname, Jouan
Jouanounet: A toponym in Montjoi, Tarn-et-Garonne
Jouars-Pontchartrain: Jouars-Pontchartrain
Jougla: a surname from Occitan
Jouly: a French surname
Jour J: D-Day (“6 June 1944”) (WWII); The date of any major event planned for the future.
Jourdain: Jordan (a river in West Asia in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)
Journée du chandail orange: September 30th; Orange Shirt Day; a Canadian national observance first observed in 2013
Journée du t-shirt orange: September 30th; Orange Shirt Day; a Canadian national observance first observed in 2013
Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation: 30th of September; the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a Canadian national statutory holiday first observed in 2021
Jousseaume: a surname
Jouxtens-Mézery: a commune of Vaud canton, Laussane district, Switzerland
Jouy: Jouy (a village in Eure-et-Loir department, Centre-Val de Loire, France)
Jouy-en-Josas: Jouy-enJosas (a city in Yvelines department, France)
Joël: Joel; a male given name from Hebrew or Breton, equivalent to English Joel
Joëlle: a female given name, female equivalent of Joël
Juché: Juche, the state ideology of North Korea.
Juda: Judah (first son of Jacob); Judah (an ancient kingdom in the Land of Israel; modern-day part of Israel and Palestine)
Judas: Judas