review by a court of law of actions of a government official or entity or of some other legally appointed person or body or the review by an appellate court of the decision of a trial court
judicial decision
Noun
the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
justification
Noun
the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning
justification
Noun
something, such as a fact or circumstance, that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary
justification
Noun
a statement in explanation of some action or belief
job action
Noun
a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands
jamming
Noun
deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
jam
Noun
deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
jam
Noun
preserve of crushed fruit
jam
Noun
a dense crowd of people
jam
Noun
informal terms for a difficult situation
jam
Verb
interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
jam
Verb
block passage through
jam
Verb
crush or bruise
jam
Verb
crowd or pack to capacity
jam
Verb
get stuck and immobilized
jam
Verb
push down forcibly
jam
Verb
press tightly together or cram
jam
Verb
leave a location
jam
Verb
to play a musical instrument, usually with others
jumpstart
Noun
starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car
jumpstart
Verb
start or re-start vigorously
jumpstart
Verb
start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
jump-start
Noun
starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car
jump-start
Verb
start or re-start vigorously
jump-start
Verb
start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
jument
Noun
an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work
jawless vertebrate
Noun
eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
jawless fish
Noun
an eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages, including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
junco
Noun
small North American finch seen chiefly in winter
jenny wren
Noun
any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails
jackdaw
Noun
common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery
jay
Noun
a crested largely blue bird
jaybird
Noun
common jay of eastern North America
joint snake
Noun
a snakelike lizard of Europe, Asia, and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long, fragile tail
jungle fowl
Noun
small Asiatic wild bird
jungle cock
Noun
male jungle fowl
jigger
Noun
larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
jigger
Noun
any small mast on a sailing vessel
jigger
Noun
a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
jacamar
Noun
a tropical insectivorous bird native to Central and South America, having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage
jerboa kangaroo
Noun
brush-tailed rat kangaroo
jellyfish
Noun
any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
jellyfish
Noun
large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
jackknife clam
Noun
marine clam having a long narrow curved thin shell
jabiru
Noun
large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America
jabiru
Noun
large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa
jabiru
Noun
large mostly white Australian stork
jaeger
Noun
rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey
jacksnipe
Noun
American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting