Letter J
Jabiru: large tropical stork with massive bill
Jamb: metal leg-armour
Jiggery-pokery: deceptive or manipulative humbug
Juvenilia: works of one’s youth; early works of an artist or author
Jolley: guide for fixing a pottery mould for plates
Letter I
ICHTHYOPHAGOUS: fish-eating
ILKE: kind or nature
INSECTIVOROUS: eating insects
IZZAT: honour
ICKLE: little
INATHINE: violet-coloured
Letter A
AARDWOLF: South African carnivorous fox-like animal.
ABENG: Jamaican bugle (music instrument) made from cow horn.
ABSORBEFACIENT: causing or promoting absorption.
ACIPENSER: sturgeon
ADVERSATIVE: word or phrase expressing opposition.
Letter B
BYSSINE: soft
BUSHWA: nonsense
BRUMOUS: foggy
BRACHYPODOUS: short-legged
BONASUS: bison
BIS: twice; in two places
Letter Y
YUZBASHI: Turkish military officer
YAPNESS: hunger
YEEP: to cheep
YAGER: nineteenth-century rifle
YARLING: wailing
Letter N
NEPHELOCOCCYGIA: the act of finding shapes in clouds.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY: the study of the relation between brain and behaviour.
NIL: nothing.
NUTARIAN: a person who believes that nuts are the best kind of food.
NUMMAMOROUS: money-loving.
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