| zinger | (noun) a striking or amusing or caustic remark | - |
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| zinkenite | (noun) a steel grey metallic mineral (a sulphide of lead and antimony) | - |
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| zinnia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads | Synonyms: old maid, old maid flower |
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| zinnwaldite | (noun) a mica containing iron and lithium | - |
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| zip | (noun) a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab | Synonyms: slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper |
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| (noun) forceful exertion | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour |
| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zippo |
| zipper | (noun) a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab | Synonyms: slide fastener, zip, zip fastener |
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| zippo | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip |
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| zircon | (noun) a common mineral occurring in small crystals; chief source of zirconium; used as a refractory when opaque and as a gem when transparent | Synonyms: zirconium silicate |
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| zirconia | (noun) a white crystalline oxide; used in refractories and in insulation and abrasives and enamels and glazes | Synonyms: zirconium dioxide, zirconium oxide |
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| zirconium | (noun) a lustrous grey strong metallic element resembling titanium; it is used in nuclear reactors as a neutron absorber; it occurs in baddeleyite but is obtained chiefly from zircon | Synonyms: atomic number 40, Zr |
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| zit | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: hickey, pimple |
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| zither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: cither, zithern |
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| zithern | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: cither, zither |
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| ziti | (noun) medium-sized tubular pasta in short pieces | - |
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| zizz | (noun) a nap | - |
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| (noun) a buzzing or whizzing sound | - |
| zloty | (noun) the basic unit of money in Poland | - |
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| zoanthropy | (noun) the delusion that you have assumed the form of an animal | - |
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| zoarium | (noun) a colony of zooids. | - |
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| zodiac | (noun) (astrology) a circular diagram representing the 12 zodiacal constellations and showing their signs | - |
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| (noun) a belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic; divided into 12 constellations or signs for astrological purposes | - |
| zombi | (noun) several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur | Synonyms: zombie |
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| (noun) a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force | Synonyms: living dead, zombie |
| (noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: automaton, zombie |
| (noun) a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies | Synonyms: snake god, zombie |
| (noun) (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body | Synonyms: zombi spirit, zombie, zombie spirit |
| zombie | (noun) several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur | Synonyms: zombi |
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| (noun) a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force | Synonyms: living dead, zombi |
| (noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: automaton, zombi |
| (noun) a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies | Synonyms: snake god, zombi |
| (noun) (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body | Synonyms: zombi, zombi spirit, zombie spirit |
| zona | (noun) (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure | Synonyms: zone |
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| zone | (noun) (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure | Synonyms: zona |
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| (noun) a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features | - |
| (noun) an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic | - |
| (noun) any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude | Synonyms: geographical zone |
| zoning | (noun) dividing an area into zones or sections reserved for different purposes such as residence and business and manufacturing etc | - |
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| zonula | (noun) small beltlike zone | Synonyms: zonule |
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| zonule | (noun) small beltlike zone | Synonyms: zonula |
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| zoo | (noun) the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition | Synonyms: menagerie, zoological garden |
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| zooecdysone | (noun) The term 'zooecdysone' refers to the molting hormones of insects. | - |
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| zooerastia | (noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: bestiality, sodomy, zooerasty |
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| zooerasty | (noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: bestiality, sodomy, zooerastia |
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| zooflagellate | (noun) flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics | Synonyms: zoomastigote |
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| zooid | (noun) one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan | - |
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| zoolatry | (noun) the worship of animals | Synonyms: animal-worship |
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| zoologist | (noun) a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals | Synonyms: animal scientist |
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| zoology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies animals | Synonyms: zoological science |
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| (noun) all the animal life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: fauna |
| zoom | (noun) the act of rising upward into the air | Synonyms: soar |
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| (noun) a rapid rise | Synonyms: rapid climb, rapid growth |
| zoomastigote | (noun) flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics | Synonyms: zooflagellate |
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| zoomorphism | (noun) the attribution of animal forms or qualities to a god | - |
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| zoonosis | (noun) an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans | Synonyms: zoonotic disease |
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| zoophagy | (noun) The quality of being an animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. | Synonyms: carnivorousness |
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| zoophilia | (noun) a sexual attraction to animals | Synonyms: zoophilism |
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| zoophilism | (noun) a sexual attraction to animals | Synonyms: zoophilia |
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| zoophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of animals | - |
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| zoophyte | (noun) any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge | - |
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| zooplankton | (noun) animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae | - |
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| zoopsia | (noun) visual hallucination of animals; sometimes occurring in delirium tremens | - |
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| zoospore | (noun) an asexual spore of some algae and fungi that moves by means of flagella | - |
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| zootoxin | (noun) a toxin resembling bacterial toxins in its antigenic properties that is found in the fluids of certain animals | Synonyms: animal toxin |
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| zori | (noun) a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes | Synonyms: pusher |
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| zoril | (noun) muishond of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ictonyx frenata |
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| zoster | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, shingles |
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| zoysia | (noun) any of several creeping grasses of the genus Zoysia | - |
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| zucchini | (noun) small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green | Synonyms: courgette |
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| (noun) marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small | Synonyms: courgette |
| zumbooruck | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruk |
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| zumbooruk | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruck |
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| zwieback | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread |
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| zydeco | (noun) music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues | - |
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| zygoma | (noun) the slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone | Synonyms: arcus zygomaticus, zygomatic arch |
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| zygomatic | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: cheekbone, jugal bone, malar, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic bone |
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| zygospore | (noun) a plant spore formed by two similar sexual cells | - |
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| zygote | (noun) (genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell) | Synonyms: fertilized ovum |
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| zygotene | (noun) the second stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| zymase | (noun) a complex of enzymes that cause glycolysis; originally found in yeast but also present in higher organisms | - |
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| zymogen | (noun) any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active | Synonyms: proenzyme |
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| zymology | (noun) the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling) | Synonyms: zymurgy |
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| zymolysis | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, fermenting, zymosis |
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| zymosis | (noun) (medicine) the development and spread of an infectious disease (especially one caused by a fungus) | - |
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| (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, fermenting, zymolysis |
| zymurgy | (noun) the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling) | Synonyms: zymology |
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