Spanish–English dictionary

jardinería

(horticulture) The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.

jardinero

One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.

jardines

(in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

jareta

(often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.

jaripeo

(sports) A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock.

jarra

A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.

jarrear

(intransitive, informal) To rain heavily.

jarreo

A heavy rain.

jarrete

(countable) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.

jarretera

A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.

jarro

(archaic) A large bottle for drinks such as beer, cider, or wine; also, a bottle with a cap used by travellers.

jarrón

An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.

Jartum

The capital city of Sudan.

jasar

To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.

jashte

Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. [from 16th c.]

Jasón

(Greek mythology) The leader of the Argonauts, who retrieved the Golden Fleece from king Aeetes of Colchis, for his uncle Pelias.

jaspeado

Veined or clouded like imitation jasper.

jaspear

(transitive) To mark (something) with small spots.

jato

In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.

jaula

(countable) A cage to keep pet or zoological specimen birds in.

jauría

A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

Javier

Any of various notable people with this name as given name or surname, especially Saint Francis Xavier, a Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552).

Jazmín

A en given name.

jazz

(music genre) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.

JDR

(games) Initialism of roleplaying game.

jeans

A pair of trousers made from denim cotton and dyed dark blue.

jecho

(of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.

jechón

Tending to boast or brag.

jeder

(transitive, UK, dated, slang) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.

Jedi

(Star Wars) One of a fictional order of beings from the Star Wars universe who are gifted with heightened awareness of the Force.

jediondo

Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.

jeep

(genericized trademark) A sport utility vehicle or similar four-wheel-drive vehicle.

jefa

A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

jefatura

The center of an organization's operations or administration.

jefazo

(informal) A person of importance in a group or organization.

jefe

A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

jefe de comedor

A waiter who has a supervisory position over the other wait staff; chief waiter.

Jehová

(religion) A transliteration of the Masoretic pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.

Jehovah

(religion) A transliteration of the Masoretic pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.

jeje

An approximation to the sound of a mischievous giggle.

jején

Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera.

Jeju

An island, province, and city in South Korea.

jemer

A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.

Jena

An independent city in Thuringia, Germany.

jenabe

The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.

jenable

The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.

jeque

A leader of a clan or tribe.

jerarquizar

To augment or make something greater.

jerber

(transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

jerbiente

In a state of extreme volatility; about to boil over; boiling, bubbling.

jerbo

Any of a number of species comprising the family Dipodidae, native to the deserts of Asia and northern Africa, being a small, jumping rodent with a long tufted tail, very small forefeet and very long hind legs.

jerga

(countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.

Jericó

A city in the West Bank, Palestine.

jerife

A traditional Arab tribal title for one who serves as the protector of the tribe and all tribal assets.

jerigonza

Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.

jeringa

Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.

jeringuilla

A device consisting of a hypodermic needle, a chamber for containing liquids, and a piston for applying pressure (to inject) or reducing pressure (to draw); a hypodermic syringe.

jerma

A female person, usually an adult: a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.

jermu

(US, colloquial, slang, sometimes, dated) A woman or girl.

jeroglífico

An element (individual sign or glyph) of a hieroglyphic writing system.

Jerónimo

A surname transferred from the given name.

jersey

(countable) A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.

Jerusalén

A city in the Holy Land between the Mediterranean Sea and Dead Sea, holy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; the claimed capital city of both Israel and Palestine.

jerver

(transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

jerviente

In a state of extreme volatility; about to boil over; boiling, bubbling.

Jesé

(biblical character) The son of Obed and the father of king David.

Jesica

A en given name.

Jéssica

A en given name.

Jesucristo

(Christianity) A title given to Jesus of Nazareth, seen as the fulfiller of the messianic prophecy.

jesuita

(Catholicism) A member of the Society of Jesus.

Jesús

Said to somebody who has sneezed, as a rhetorical response; .

jet

(mathematics) an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.

jet lag

(aviation) A physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight; often the result of disruption to the circadian rhythms of the body.

jeta

The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.

jevo

A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.

Jezabel

(biblical character) The Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings & 2 Kings), and who incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols.

ji

The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.

jibarizar

(transitive) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).

jibia

Any squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened.

jicalpestle

Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).

jicalpextle

Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).

jícara

The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.

jicoria

(countable) Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.

jicote

Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.

jierro

(nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.

jifero

A large, sharp knife, used by the butcher for hacking meats.

jifia

A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.

jiga

(traditional English Morris, _, dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.

jimio

(loosely, sometimes, _, proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape.

jinete

A man who rides a horse.

jingoísmo

(uncountable) Excessive patriotism or aggressive nationalism, especially with regards to foreign policy.

jingoísta

Jingoistic; extremely supportive of warlike foreign policy.

jinn

(Arabic culture) A human-like spiritual or immaterial being, as opposed to al-ins (people), often invisible but able to manifest in form and also inhabit people or animals; origin of the genie of Western literature, film etc.

jipiar

(intransitive) To produce a hiccup; have the hiccups.

jipido

A case of the hiccups; the condition of having the spasms of hiccupping; singultus; diaphragmatic myoclonus.

jipío

A case of the hiccups; the condition of having the spasms of hiccupping; singultus; diaphragmatic myoclonus.

jira

The meal eaten at such a gathering.

jirafa

A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, making them the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones.

Jirán

A king of Tyre. (biblical character)

jirofle

(uncountable, or, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

jirón

(heraldiccharge) A triangular form having an angle at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon.

jirones

very old, torn clothes

jirviente

In a state of extreme volatility; about to boil over; boiling, bubbling.

jisca

Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges; perennial herbs with triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grass-like leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.

jíter

A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.

jitomate

A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.

Joaquín

A en given name, always rare in English.

jobi

An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.

jocoso

Humorous, amusing or joking.

jocoyote

The youngest child of a family.

joda

(informal) A large party; a gala event.

joder

An expression of dismay, disgust, anger, surprise etc.

jodido

(informal, Britain, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, mildly, _) Used as an intensifier.

jodontón

(slang) Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire.

jofaina

A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.

jogging

The practice of running at a relatively slow pace for exercise.

Johannesburgo

The largest city in South Africa, in Gauteng province.

jojoto

Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

Joker

A fictional villain of DC Comics, noted for his insanity and cunning, who either wears clown makeup or is disfigured to appear as such, and who is archenemy of Batman.

jol

A corridor; a hallway.

jolgorio

Joyful festivities, especially as a celebration.

jolín

(euphemistic, now sometimes specifically interpreted as a euphemism for 'fuck') Darn! Expresses mild dismay or annoyance.

jolines

(euphemistic, now sometimes specifically interpreted as a euphemism for 'fuck') Darn! Expresses mild dismay or annoyance.

jómper

(US) A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.

jónico

Synonym of Ionic.

Jordania

A small town, the county seat of Garfield County, Montana.

Jorge

A en given name; also used in the conjoined name George Ann(e).

Jorgina

A en given name.

jornada

(metaphorical) Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.

jornal

A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.

jornalero

A laborer who is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.

joroba

(dated, euphemistic) A mild expression of annoyance.

jorobado

(derogatory, now, offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.

jorobar

(transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

José de Arimetea

(Christianity) Joseph of Arimathea; man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus.

Josefa

A en given name.

Josefina

A en given name.

jota

The name of the Latin-script letter J/j.

jote

Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.

jotear

(transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's affection/support.

jotera

(LGBTQ) A woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.

joto

Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.

joven

A young tree, larger than a seedling.

jovencisímo

Most recently begun or formed.

jovencita

(chiefly, Scotland, Northern England, Geordie, Northumbria) A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.

jovencito

A young tree, larger than a seedling.

jovenete

(pejorative) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.

jovenzón

A young person.

jovenzuelo

A young person.

jovial

(comparable) Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry.