| adz | (noun) an edge tool used to cut and shape wood | Synonyms: adze |
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| biz | (noun) your occupation or line of work | Synonyms: game |
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| blintz | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintze |
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| blitz | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitzkrieg |
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| (noun) (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line | Synonyms: linebacker blitzing, safety blitz |
| buzz | (noun) a confusion of activity and gossip | - |
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| (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombilation, bombination |
| capiz | (noun) marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell | Synonyms: Placuna placenta, window oyster, windowpane oyster |
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| chintz | (noun) a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric | - |
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| ersatz | (noun) an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation | - |
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| feryaz | (noun) a broad kaftan with long sleeves, worn by the nobility in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries. | - |
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| fez | (noun) a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown | Synonyms: tarboosh |
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| fizz | (noun) an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic) | - |
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| frizz | (noun) the condition of being formed into small tight curls | - |
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| fuzz | (noun) the first beard of an adolescent boy | - |
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| (noun) a hazy or indistinct representation | Synonyms: blur |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, cop, copper, pig |
| (noun) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant | Synonyms: hair, tomentum |
| gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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| glitz | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| grosz | (noun) 100 groszy equal 1 zloty in Poland | - |
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| guanabenz | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Wytensin) that reduces blood pressure by its effect on the central nervous system | Synonyms: Wytensin |
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| hertz | (noun) the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz) | Synonyms: cps, cycle, cycle per second, cycles/second, Hz |
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| isochalaz | (noun) a line indicating a constant frequency of hail storms. | - |
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| jazz | (noun) a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | - |
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| (noun) a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands | - |
| (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, malarkey, malarky, nothingness, wind |
| kameez | (noun) a long tunic worn by many people from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars) | - |
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| kibbutz | (noun) a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively | - |
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| kilohertz | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kc, kHz, kilocycle, kilocycle per second |
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| klutz | (noun) (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt | - |
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| kolkhoz | (noun) a collective farm owned by the communist state | - |
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| kuvasz | (noun) long-established Hungarian breed of tall light-footed but sturdy white dog; used also as a hunting dog | - |
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| lulz | (noun) An objective that is worth achieving only for its own enjoyment | - |
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| megahertz | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle, megacycle per second, MHz |
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| mittelschmerz | (noun) pain in the area of the ovary that is felt at the time of ovulation (usually midway through the menstrual cycle) | - |
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| phiz | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
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| pizzaz | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: dynamism, oomph, pizzazz, zing |
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| pizzazz | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: dynamism, oomph, pizzaz, zing |
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| putz | (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, shaft, tool |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot | - |
| quartz | (noun) a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities | - |
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| (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, lechatelierite, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
| quiz | (noun) an examination consisting of a few short questions | - |
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| razmataz | (noun) any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent | Synonyms: razzle-dazzle, razzle, razzmatazz |
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| razz | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razzing, snort |
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| razzmatazz | (noun) any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent | Synonyms: razmataz, razzle-dazzle, razzle |
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| ritz | (noun) ostentatious display of elegance | - |
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| schmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmalz, shmaltz |
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| schmalz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, shmaltz |
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| schnoz | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
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| shegetz | (noun) an offensive term for non-Jewish young man | - |
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| shmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, schmalz |
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| slivovitz | (noun) a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans | - |
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| spitz | (noun) any of various stocky heavy-coated breeds of dogs native to northern regions having pointed muzzles and erect ears with a curled furry tail | - |
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| spritz | (noun) a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water) | - |
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| swiz | (noun) British slang for a swindle | - |
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| terahertz | (noun) one trillion periods per second | Synonyms: THz |
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| topaz | (noun) a light brown the color of topaz | Synonyms: tan |
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| (noun) a mineral (fluosilicate of aluminum) that occurs in crystals of various colors and is used as a gemstone | - |
| (noun) a yellow quartz | Synonyms: common topaz, false topaz |
| waltz | (noun) a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat | Synonyms: valse |
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| (noun) music composed in triple time for waltzing | - |
| (noun) an assured victory (especially in an election) | Synonyms: walk-in |
| whiz | (noun) a buzzing or hissing sound as of something traveling rapidly through the air | - |
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| (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whizz, wiz, wizard |
| whizz | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, wiz, wizard |
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| wiz | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wizard |
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| z | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: ezed, izzard, Z, zed, zee |
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| zizz | (noun) a nap | - |
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| (noun) a buzzing or whizzing sound | - |