2-Letter Words Starting with J

Jagged

""A coarse, dark sugar, also JAGGARY, JAGGERY, JAGRA""

Pen pal (wordplay)

Man with a canary in a cage (wordplay)

Matt Ward song about escapee (wordplay)

Gala get-together, of scouts say

'Gala get-together, of scouts say (8)'

A mere job (anagram)

Jangler

Hypocritical

""A Turkish soldier, also JANIZARY""

Snow removers perhaps

Snow removers perhaps

Their business is picking up (wordplay)

Turkish soldier of yore

Former Turkish infantryman

Turkish soldier.

Person covering something with a black varnish

Jerry Lewis jests.

Jargon

A variety of pear

Jargoon

Jarldom

Hydrated iron and potassium in hexagonal crystals

""To hasten the flowering of a plant, also JAROVISE""

More sprightly

More chipper

More rakish

One who {jawbones=v}

Jaybird

Jemadar

Jemidar

Jeopard

Daredevil's delight

Danger of harm

Game whose answers are questions

Prophet's tale of woe

Tale of woe.

Lengthy, mournful complaint

Most foolish

Most spasmodic

A lot of champagne.

Major, OBE, lost bottle

Oversize wine bottle

Jerreed

Is Gerald able to hold so much (wordplay)

Holder for carrying fuel

Container for water or petrol

Flat-sided fuel carrier

Wearing a jersey

One way to get cross-country

Large passenger aeroplane

Airbus, for example

Modern airfields

Chain stores (wordplay)

Ring masters (wordplay)

Stone tools users (wordplay)

Medallion man (wordplay)

Maker of valuable adornments

Dealer in precious stones and metals

Fiddled with

Jiggly

Sleigh bells and such

Sleigh bells.

Jingly

Had the fidgets.

Was nervous

Vibrated

Short riding boots.

Part of a ringmaster's outfit

Equestrian's garb

Joggler

Joinder

Some woodworkers' tools

Widow's portion.

Widow's lifetime provision

Act of uniting

Stand-up guy (wordplay)

Joy buzzer user

Laugh-a-minute type

Wandering minstrel in medieval France

Itinerant minstrel

Wandering minstrel

Those in a rowdy crowd

Some moshers

Rude ones

Bumpier, as a ride

Day-by-day accounts

Crankshaft bearing surfaces

Writes in a diary

Travels from place to place

Trips, expeditions

Long trips

You'll get a charge out of them

Knights, at times

Old-time contestants

Teenager with a car, perhaps

Car thief, maybe

Person who drives around in stolen cars

Spins with hot wheels (wordplay)

Cruising-and-boozing sprees, say

Trips taken in 'borrowed' cars

Judder

Some keep balls in the air

They keep all the balls in the air

Performers of tricks of manual dexterity

Art of the Flying Karamazov Brothers

Drop everything if this act goes wrong (wordplay)

Vital and vulnerable targets

Vital and vulnerable targets, metaphorically

Jumbler

Important point of time

(Critical) point in time

Critical point, crossroads

Jungly

Gin berry sources

Evergreens.

Shrubs

""One that junkets, also JUNKETTER""

Spare parts source

Scrap metal source

Where trash is stashed for cash

Pertaining to an {oath=n}

Legal

Jabberer

Chattering like monkey

Chattering

Sweat- and saliva-inducing Brazilian drug

Tropical flowering tree

Tropical tree with fern-like leaves

Purple-blooming bignonia

Oceanian apprentices

Jackeroo

""A tropical Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) having large edible fruits, unisexual flowers, and fine-grained durable wood.""

Jackroll

Heavy-lifting machine

One or many little sticks in a game.

Pick-up sticks piece

Stick pulled from a pile

Jacquard

Revolt of French peasants, 1358.

Jaggary

Jaggery

They have time to finish

Cell dwellers.

Losers

Cooler idea (wordplay)

Warden's worry

Thin Lizzy's great escape

Scouting parties (wordplay)

Boy Scouts' gatherings

Meetings bore James unfortunately

Elite Turkish soldier, formerly

Ottoman soldier

Vacancy in middle of month filled by unmarried girl soldier ...

Japanner

Jargonel

Jargon

JARGON to use words specific to a trade or group

JARGON to use words specific to a trade or group

Jarosite

Jarovize

Jarovize

With a jolt

Jawboner

Kansas border ruffian of the Civil War

Kansan

Recklessly careless footman (wordplay)

Companion to Leno (wordplay)

Middle-of-the-road type (wordplay)

JEERING the act of jeering

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

Modern passenger craft.

Delta craft

Aeroplanes

Watch men

Shopkeepers deftly absorbing taunts? Quite the opposite

Precious stones etc

Rings, bracelets etc

Precious ornaments for the body

Jewelry

Jigger

Fast, jerky American dance of the 1940s

Type of two-step to jazz music

Swing era dance

Jittery

Jitter

Jobbery

Breadwinner

Overconfidence, to an athlete (wordplay)

It prevents balls from being hit

Guy's means of support

In a playful way

Joinery

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

Juggling minstrels

Early minstrel

Travelled

One who journeys.

Joyful

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

Judder

Relating to courts of law

Branch of government.

Juicy raid excited judges

JUNCTURE the act of joining

Critical points

JUNIOR one who is lower in rank or age than another

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

Some Congressmen

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.

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

Jaborandi

Trees with purple flowers

JACKASS a male {donkey=n}

Jackfruit

Manly pneumatic tool (wordplay)

Men's club craftsman (wordplay)

It pounds the pavement

Fast lifting tool (wordplay)

Fishy hare (wordplay)

Prepare to fix a VW's flat (wordplay)

Jackroll

Hoisting equipment

Game of extrication

Game for steady hands

Children's game

Jacquerie

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

Janisary

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

Turkish soldiers.

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.""

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.

Perils

Jeopard

Put at risk

Off road, jeep is put at risk

Endanger

Put at risk

Imperil

Imperil.

""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)

From jail, outcry of good-humour

Fun characterized by humor

Outcry with jail riots? Sign of wit is needed

Jointure

Jointworm

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}

Joypopper

Joyriding

A person celebrating a jubilee.

""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.""

Relentlessly destructive force or object

1974 film starring Richard Harris

Overwhelming, advancing force

Jugglery

Juniorate

Junketeer

Justiciar

Justifier

Meaningless talk (Lewis Carroll)

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...

Poem with a tumtum tree

Sidewalk destroyers

Concrete crackers