| blintz | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintze |
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| blintze | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintz |
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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 |
| (verb) attack suddenly and without warning | - |
| blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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| (verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |
| chintz | (noun) a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric | - |
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| chintzily | (adverb) in a stingy manner | Synonyms: cheaply, stingily |
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| chintzy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chinchy |
| chutzpa | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpah, hutzpah |
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| chutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, hutzpah |
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| chutzpanik | (noun) (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa | - |
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| czaritza | (noun) the wife or widow of a czar | Synonyms: czarina, tsarina, tsaritsa, tzarina |
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| deutzia | (noun) any of various shrubs of the genus Deutzia having usually toothed opposite leaves and shredding bark and white or pink flowers in loose terminal clusters | - |
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| elsholtzia | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Elsholtzia having blue or purple flowers in one-sided spikes | - |
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| ersatz | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: substitute |
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| (noun) an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation | - |
| 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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| 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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| hoactzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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| hoatzin | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoactzin, Opisthocomus hoazin, stinkbird |
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| howitzer | (noun) a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range | Synonyms: mortar, trench mortar |
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| hutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, chutzpah |
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| katzenjammer | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, uproar |
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| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: hangover |
| kibbitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibitz |
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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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| kibbutznik | (noun) a member of a kibbutz | - |
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| kibitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibbitz |
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| kibitzer | (noun) (Yiddish) a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others | - |
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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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| matzah | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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| matzo | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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| matzoh | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzah, matzo, unleavened bread |
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| megahertz | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle, megacycle per second, MHz |
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| mitzvah | (noun) (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty | Synonyms: mitsvah |
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| (noun) (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law | Synonyms: mitsvah |
| patzer | (noun) a poor chess player | - |
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| pretzel | (noun) glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot | - |
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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 |
| quartzite | (noun) hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals | - |
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| quartzose | (adjective) relating to or made of quartz | - |
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| quetzal | (noun) large trogon of Central America and South America having golden-green and scarlet plumage | Synonyms: quetzal bird |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Guatemala; equal to 100 centavos | - |
| ritz | (noun) ostentatious display of elegance | - |
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| ritzy | (adjective) luxuriously elegant | - |
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| schmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmalz, shmaltz |
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| schmaltzy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| schnitzel | (noun) deep-fried breaded veal cutlets | Synonyms: Wiener schnitzel |
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| seltzer | (noun) naturally effervescent mineral water | - |
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| (noun) effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: carbonated water, club soda, soda water, sparkling water |
| 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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| (verb) cover (a location) wholly or partially by squirting a liquid onto it | - |
| (verb) eject (a liquid) quickly | - |
| spritzer | (noun) a mixed drink made of wine mixed with a sparkling water | - |
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| terahertz | (noun) one trillion periods per second | Synonyms: THz |
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| tzar | (noun) a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) | Synonyms: czar, tsar |
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| tzarina | (noun) the wife or widow of a czar | Synonyms: czarina, czaritza, tsarina, tsaritsa |
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| tzarist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, czaristic, tsarist, tsaristic |
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| tzetze | (noun) bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. | Synonyms: glossina, tsetse, tsetse fly, tzetze fly |
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| 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 |
| (verb) dance a waltz | Synonyms: waltz around |
| waltzer | (noun) a dancer who waltzes | - |
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| wurtzite | (noun) a brownish-black mineral consisting of zinc sulfide | - |
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