2-Letter Words Starting with J

Adjective meaning resembling

Jelutong

Jeopard

Impassioned tirades.

Lugubrious complaints.

Long laments

Unprofessional film quality

Fits and starts

Stupid marathoner's drink (wordplay)

Remote and insignificant

Remote, as a hamlet

Jeroboam

Containers and nicer jars smashed

Hall and toilets for emergency fuel containers

Light yellow color

Alternative spelling for an oleaceous shrub with fragrant flowers

Principles and practices of the Society of Jesus

Modern passenger craft.

Delta craft

Aeroplanes

Throws from a ship or aircraft

Discards or throws overboard

Throws goods overboard, discards

Watch men

Shopkeepers deftly absorbing taunts? Quite the opposite

Precious stones etc

Rings, bracelets etc

Precious ornaments for the body

Resembling a precious stone

Jewel

Jewelry

Touch-me-not.

Mulloways and some large groupers

Jigger

Jiggly

Woodshop specialty

Jingly

Jingoism

Country superfans

Jipijapa

Fast, jerky American dance of the 1940s

Type of two-step to jazz music

Swing era dance

Jittery

Jitter

Jiujitsu

Jiujutsu

Jobbery

Breadwinner

Jockette

Finagler's activity

Maneuvering

Overconfidence, to an athlete (wordplay)

It prevents balls from being hit

Guy's means of support

In a playful way

Casually induct into ecstasy with glee

Cheerfulness

Johnboat

Joinery

JOINTED joint

A woman who has a jointure.

Jointure

Estate tenures for wives

""The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in galllike swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop. Eurytoma hordei), which is found in galllike swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.""

Funny fellows

Funny people

Gagmen

Jollify

Jollify

Jollity

Juggling minstrels

Early minstrel

Jouncy

Travelled

One who journeys.

Cheerfulness in mood or disposition

Good-humouredness

Mirthfulness.

Joyful

JOYLESS without joy

Joypop

JOYPOP to use habit-forming drugs occasionally

Joyride

Car borrowers, of a sort

Soap opera about bubbly commuters (wordplay)

Reckless drivers

Pastime for a car thief, perhaps

'Sport' of car thieves

Driving with abandon

The View co-host Behar's collection of little bloodsuckers (wordplay)

'The View' co-host Behar's collection of little bloodsuckers (wordplay)

A feeling of extreme joy; jubilation.

Jubilate

Jubilate

Judder

Good sense in Britain.

Court ruling

Get soldiers in after Trump briefly gives order

Office of a court head

Bench seat

JUDGE to {estimate=v}

Variant assessments, opinions

Official decisions.

Case-law derives from a lot of combat with detectives and models

Relating to courts of law

Branch of government.

Juicy raid excited judges

Having good sense

Prudent, well-considered

Showing good sense

Juggling

Jugulate

Jugulate

Slang A heavy drinker; an alcoholic.

Lacking juice; dry.

Prized quality in fruit

Noisemakers of a sort

Great-grandfathers of the iPod

Record players of a sort.

Julienne

Julienne

Nervousness

Flee the board meeting (wordplay)

Things that zip up to go down (wordplay)

Fashion wear.

Meeting places

Meeting points

JUNCTURE the act of joining

Critical points

Jungly

JUNIOR one who is lower in rank or age than another

German aristo welcoming support of driver, jolly sort (wordplay)

Some Congressmen

Taking an excursion for pleasure

Places for scrap

Scrap-metal sites

Scrap metal sources

""Pertaining to a judge or to jurisprudence; acting in the distribution of justice; used in courts of law; according to law; legal; as, juridical law.as, juridical law.""

Same as Justiciary. Justiciary.

Proved to be right

Explained how margins were aligned

Only if it's, that's to say, five hundred can it be considered right.

""One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, or absolves.""

Absolves.

They sound as if they're miners

Children

Young adult novels (wordplay)

Children's books

The Brontes' Glass Town Confederacy stories, for example

Place cheek by jowl

Put side by side

Set side by side

Jaborandi

A small evergreen tropical tree (Myrciaria cauliflora) native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern U. S.; it is grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches.Myrciaria cauliflora) native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern U. S.; it is grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches.

Trees with purple flowers

Cheeky kid - Japan's cake (anagram)

Conceited, impertinent person

Knave, one imitates whippersnapper

JACKASS a male {donkey=n}

Shod like some fishermen

Wearing knee-high military footwear

JACKET to provide with a short coat

Jackfish

Jackfruit

Manly pneumatic tool (wordplay)

Men's club craftsman (wordplay)

It pounds the pavement

Like a semi in an L-shape (2 words)

Accidentally folded (of a lorry)

Doubled up, in a way.

Bends, as a semi

Has an accident with the rig

Does a fancy dive

Fancy swimming dives

Dives.

Dives

Jacklight

Fast lifting tool (wordplay)

Fishy hare (wordplay)

Prepare to fix a VW's flat (wordplay)

Jackroll

Hoisting equipment

Jacksmelt

Game of extrication

Game for steady hands

Children's game

Jacquerie

Jaculate

Something irregular like a bump on or crack in a smooth surface.

Jagghery

""A South American wild cat (Felis jaguarondi), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds. Felis jaguarondi), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds.""

Grayish wildcat

Some prison plots

Forcible escapes

Jailhouse

Jambalaya

Janisary

Opinion piece published at the start of the year (wordplay)

Turkish soldiers.

Japanize

Container for the display of flowers

Ornamental stand for plants

Ornamental flower pot

JARGONIZE

Jargonize

Jarovize

""An opaque cryptocrystalline variety of quartz that may be red, yellow, or brown.""

Jaundice

Lively self-confidence

Breezy liveliness

The high spirits of one in pleasure trip to a Scottish loch (wordplay)

Javelin

Jawboning

Ring zinger (wordplay)

Zbigniew Brzezinski, for example

Really hard candy

Citizens of Kansas.

Topeka natives

Kansas natives

Baby Gould's nannies (wordplay)

Baby Gould's nannies?

Pedestrians of a sort.

First Chief Justice afoot?

First Chief Justice afoot (wordplay)

Crossing the street illegally

Mistrustful feelings.

Lack of maturity

Insipid quality

Jejunity

Jellify

Perils

Jeopard

Put at risk

Off road, jeep is put at risk

Endanger

Put at risk

Imperil

Imperil.

Jessamine

JESUITIC pertaining to a {jesuit=n}

Jesuitism

Ditched plane has done its flying

Ditched aircraft, drifting on tides

Thrown overboard

Jewelweed

Plant named for Jamestown.

Thorn-apple alias

Hallucinogenic plant also called Thorn Apple

Loyal to a fault

Jack in turn is tribal leader in charge who is chauvinistic

Patriotic

""A small, two-wheeled carriage drawn by one or two persons.""

Tokyo two-wheeler

Eastern taxi variable

Oriental carriage.

Swing dances just get rib broken

Devotees of swing.

Swings, in a way

Jittery

Jobholder

Athlete's hunting gear (wordplay)

Junk drawers (wordplay)

JOCOSE humourous

Humorous remarks.

From jail, outcry of good-humour

Fun characterized by humor

Outcry with jail riots? Sign of wit is needed

Dessert for Cash (wordplay)

Dessert for Carson (wordplay)

Cornbread on the griddle

Jointure

Jointworm

Jokiness

Jollify

The talk of the fourth estate (wordplay)

Hackneyed style in certain newspapers

Jargon of poor news reports etc.

Yellow pages, at times (wordplay)

Field that has many sources

Field of Walter Cronkite

William Allen White.

Newsman who keeps a diary initially...

One who spoons and scoops

To enter or record in a journal or diary.

Journeyer

Journey

Adequately competent worker

Competent, but not exceptional, worker

Tourist perhaps is reliable but not outstanding

JOURNEY to {travel=v}

Jovialty

Joyful

The emotion of great happiness.

JOYOUS {joyful=adj}

Joypopper

Joypop

Joyriding

Jubilance

In a joyous manner

A person celebrating a jubilee.

Jubilate

High spirits.

Triumphal rejoicing

Triumphant feeling

Judgement

Judgeship

Tending to moralize

Fault-finding referee rumoured to be mad!

Excessively critical

""Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals. as, judicatory tribunals.""

""The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.""