jokelang
A joke language; an absurd constructed language created to amuse others.

jongseong
(in Korean or the hangul script) a consonant or consonant cluster in the syllable coda

jooal
Alternative form of joual.

jor
In Indian music, a formal section of composition in the long elaboration (alap) of a raga that forms the beginning of a performance.

joropo
A musical style resembling the waltz, performed in Venezuela and Colombia.
A Venezuelan dance associated with this music.

joropos
plural of joropo

jors
plural of jor

joseki
A studied and standardized sequence of moves in game of Go, especially at a corner of the board, in the opening phase of a game. Joseki have a variety of outcomes and can be beneficial or detrimental based on the situation. However, Joseki theoretically include the best moves locally for each player.

josekis
plural of joseki

jotation
Alternative form of iotation.

jotations
plural of jotation

joual
The dialect of working-class Quebecers.

journalism
The aggregating, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles for widespread distribution, typically in electronic publications, broadcast news media, or printed newspapers or periodicals, for the purpose of informing the audience, relying on a style of writing characteristic for this purpose, consisting of direct presentation of facts or events and (depending on type) either with or without analysis or interpretation.

journalisms
plural of journalism

journeywork
Work done by the day.
Work done by a journeyman at his trade.

judo
A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujutsu.

jugalbandhi
Alternative form of jugalbandi.

jugalbandhis
plural of jugalbandhi

jugalbandi
A kind of duet in Indian classical music.

jugalbandis
plural of jugalbandi

juju
A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers.
The magical or supernatural power of such a charm.
The (usually negative) karmic consequences of an action or behavior.

jujus
plural of juju

jukskei
A traditional game similar to quoits played by throwing the skei at the yoke.
One of the wooden pins thrown in the game of jukskei.

jukskeis
plural of jukskei

jummabundee
Alternative form of jummabundi.

jummabundees
plural of jummabundee

jummabundi
A register of holdings.

jummabundies
plural of jummabundy

jummabundis
plural of jummabundi

jummabundy
Alternative form of jummabundi.

jumpstyle
A European genre of frenetic electronic music accompanied by a jumping dance.

jungseong
(in Korean or the hangul script) a vowel or diphthong in the syllable nucleus

junkscape
A landscape dominated by junk.

junkscapes
plural of junkscape

juryo
The second highest division in sumo wrestling, below makuuchi and above makushita; rikishi at this point receive a salary.
An athlete in this division.

juryos
plural of juryo

juttal
A coin formerly used in India.

juttals
plural of juttal

kaaf
The letter ك in the Arabic script.

kaafs
plural of kaaf

kaddish
A Jewish prayer of praise to God recited during services, and specifically when mourning the death of a close relative.

kaddishes
plural of kaddish

kaddishim
plural of kaddish

kaf
The twenty-second letter of the Arabic alphabet. ك (k)
Alternative spelling of kaph.

kafi
A classical form of Sufi poem.
A genre of Punjabi and Sindhi classical music.

kafis
plural of kafi

kafs
plural of kaf

kagome
An arrangement of laths composed of interlaced triangles such that each point where two laths cross has four neighboring points. Although called a lattice, it is more closely related to the trihexagonal tiling than to a mathematical lattice.
Kagome Kagome, a Japanese children's game.

kagura
A kind of Shinto theatrical dance in Japan.

kaidan
A traditional Japanese ghost story or horror story.

kaidans
plural of kaidan

kajari
A Hindustani classical music genre of folk songs and dance.

kajiri
Alternative form of kajari.

kakawin
A long narrative poem composed in Old Javanese, with rhythms and meters derived from Sanskrit literature.

kakawins
plural of kakawin

kakemono
A vertical Japanese scroll painting.
A portable self-standing roll-up banner.

kakemonos
plural of kakemono

kakiemon
Japanese porcelain wares featuring enamel decoration.

kakizome
The first calligraphy written at the beginning of a year.

kakographies
plural of kakography

kakography
Alternative form of cacography.

kalotypography
Typography or printing that is beautiful or visually appealing.

kamatz
A Hebrew nikud vowel sign, shaped like a small uppercase T, which is written beneath a letter to indicate an /a/ sound (or, in Ashkenazi pronunciation, an /o/ sound).

kamatzes
plural of kamatz

kamatzim
plural of kamatz

kamora
The diacritic ̑ ( ̑) in the Old Cyrillic alphabet to indicate a plural, used on vowels, stressed or not stressed, in particular on о; not to be confused with the palatalization mark ҄ used on certain consonants.

kamoras
plural of kamora

kanhu
Alternative form of khanhoo.

kanones
plural of kanone

kaomoji
A text-based Japanese emoticon, distinct from a Western emoticon in that it is not rotated sideways, and often includes a larger variety of characters (originally from Shift JIS, now including Unicode).

kaomojis
plural of kaomoji

kapeek
A former coin of Belarus.

kapeeks
plural of kapeek

kapeika
A Latvian coin worth one hundredth of a rublis.

kapeikas
plural of kapeika

kapeyka
Alternative spelling of kopiyka.

kaph
The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

kaphs
plural of kaph

kapton
Alternative form of Kapton.

karamu
The feast eaten as part of Kwanzaa celebrations.

karbovanets
The monetary unit of Ukraine from 1917 to 1920, 1942 to 1945, and 1991 to 1996.

karbovantsi
plural of karbovanets

karbovantsiv
plural of karbovanets

karogram
Misspelling of karyogram.

karolin
Alternative form of carolin.

karoliner
plural of karolin

karolins
plural of karolin

karren
A small-scale ribbed and fluted erosion feature formed by differential solution from acidic water.

karrenfield
A landscape that has an abundance of karren.

karrenfields
plural of karrenfield

karyenda
A drum of Burundian origin, revered as a national symbol of spiritual importance.

karyogram
A graphical representation of a karyotype.

karyograms
plural of karyogram

kaseko
A musical genre from Suriname, a fusion of African, European and American styles.

kasida
Alternative form of qasida (“type of poem”).

kasidas
plural of kasida

kasra
In Arabic script, the vowel point for "i", appearing as a small diagonal line placed below a letter ( ـِ ) and designating a short i /i/. If the Arabic letter ي (yāʔ) immediately follows, it indicates a long ī /iː/.
In Iranian Persian ـِ represents the vowel /e/. If the letter ـی immediately follows it represents the diphthong /ej/. This usage differs from other Arabic script languages and from classical Persian, in which the diphthong /ej/ did not occur.

kasrah
Alternative form of kasra.

kasrahs
plural of kasrah

kasras
plural of kasra

kasre
The diacritical mark ـِ (-e) used in the Persian script to denote the short vowel sound e, analogically to Arabic kasra.

kasres
plural of kasre

katajjaq
An Inuit form of throat singing, traditionally performed by two women competing to see who can outlast the other.

katal
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of catalytic activity; one mole per second. Symbol: kat.

katals
plural of katal

kataphoresis
Alternative form of cataphoresis.

katarimono
A Japanese musical genre, that is usually accompanied with a biwa.

katauta
A particular kind of Japanese poem, having a 5-7-7 meter and forming half of an exchange of two poems.

katautas
plural of katauta

katharses
plural of katharsis

katharsis
Alternative form of catharsis.

kavadis
plural of kavadi