| laziness | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: acedia, sloth |
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| (noun) relaxed and easy activity | - |
| (noun) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work | Synonyms: indolence |
| magazine | (noun) a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored | Synonyms: powder magazine, powder store |
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| (noun) product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object | - |
| (noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, clip |
| (noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: cartridge |
| (noun) a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it | Synonyms: mag |
| (noun) a business firm that publishes magazines | Synonyms: magazine publisher |
| marbleizing | (noun) a texture like that of marble | Synonyms: marbleisation, marbleising, marbleization |
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| marzipan | (noun) almond paste and egg whites | Synonyms: marchpane |
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| maximizing | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximising |
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| meclizine | (noun) an antihistamine (trade name Antivert) used to treat or prevent motion sickness | Synonyms: Antivert, meclizine hydrochloride |
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| mesmerizing | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, spellbinding |
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| monazite | (noun) a reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium | - |
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| moralizing | (noun) indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code | Synonyms: moralisation, moralization |
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| muazzin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muadhdhin, muezzin |
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| muezzin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muadhdhin, muazzin |
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| narcotizing | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotising |
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| nazi | (noun) derogatory term for a person who is fanatically dedicated to, or seeks to control, some activity, practice, etc. | - |
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| nazify | (verb) cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character | - |
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| oozing | (adjective) leaking out slowly | Synonyms: oozy, seeping |
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| (noun) the process of seeping | Synonyms: ooze, seepage |
| oxaprozin | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Daypro) | Synonyms: Daypro |
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| patronizing | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, condescending, patronising |
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| patronizingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: condescendingly, patronisingly |
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| perphenazine | (noun) tranquilizer and antidepressant (trade name Triavil) sometimes used as an antiemetic for adults | Synonyms: Triavil |
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| phenelzine | (noun) monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Nardil) used to treat clinical depression | Synonyms: Nardil |
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| phenothiazine | (noun) a compound used primarily in veterinary medicine to rid farm animals of internal parasites | Synonyms: thiodiphenylamine |
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| philosophizing | (noun) the exposition (often superficially) of a particular philosophy | - |
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| pimozide | (noun) the most commonly used diphenylbutyl piperidine | - |
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| piperazine | (noun) vermifuge used to treat infestations by roundworms or pinworms | - |
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| pizzicato | (adjective) (of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger | - |
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| (noun) a note or passage that is played pizzicato | - |
| (adverb) with a light plucking staccato sound | - |
| procarbazine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug used to treat Hodgkin's disease | - |
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| prochlorperazine | (noun) antipsychotic and antiemetic drug used to treat schizophrenia and to combat nausea and vomiting | - |
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| promethazine | (noun) antihistamine (trade name Phenergan) used to treat allergies; also an antiemetic used to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Phenergan |
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| publicizing | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, merchandising |
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| quartzite | (noun) hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals | - |
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| quizzical | (adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: questioning |
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| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: mocking, teasing |
| quizzically | (adverb) in a quizzical and questioning manner | Synonyms: questioningly |
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| razing | (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: demolishing, leveling, tearing down |
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| (noun) the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled | Synonyms: wrecking |
| razzing | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razz, snort |
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| revitalizing | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalising, reviving |
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| seizing | (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: grasping, prehension, taking hold |
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| (noun) small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together | - |
| sensitizing | (adjective) making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: sensitising |
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| (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitization |
| shoegazing | (noun) A subgenre of alternative rock typified by significant use of guitar distortion, feedback, obscured vocals and the blurring of component musical parts into indistinguishable "walls of sound" | - |
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| simazine | (noun) a herbicide used to control weeds (especially among crops) | - |
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| sizing | (noun) any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics | Synonyms: size |
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| sleaziness | (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: manginess, seediness, shabbiness |
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| (noun) morally dishonorable | - |
| sneezing | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneeze, sternutation |
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| socializing | (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialising, socialization |
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| squeezing | (noun) the act of gripping and pressing firmly | Synonyms: squeeze |
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| stabilizing | (adjective) causing to become stable | Synonyms: stabilising |
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| stargazing | (noun) observation of the stars | - |
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| sulfadiazine | (noun) a sulfa drug used in treating meningitis and pneumonia and other infections | - |
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| sulfamethazine | (noun) a sulfa drug used like sulfadiazine and also in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: sulfamezathine |
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| symbolizing | (noun) the act of representing something with a symbol | Synonyms: symbolising |
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| synchronizing | (noun) coordinating by causing to indicate the same time | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronization |
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| (noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronising, synchronization |
| (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchrony |
| tantalizing | (adjective) very pleasantly inviting | Synonyms: tantalising, tempting |
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| (adjective) arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach | Synonyms: tantalising |
| tantalizingly | (adverb) in a tantalizing manner | Synonyms: invitingly |
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| thiazide | (noun) any of a group of drugs commonly used as diuretics in the treatment of hypertension; they block the reabsorption of sodium in the kidneys | - |
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| thiazine | (noun) a compound made up of a ring of four carbon atoms and one sulfur atom and one nitrogen atom | - |
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| thioridazine | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade name Mellaril) used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders | Synonyms: Mellaril |
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| tranquilizing | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| tranquillizing | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising |
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| trapezium | (noun) the wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals | Synonyms: os trapezium, trapezium bone |
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| (noun) a quadrilateral with no parallel sides | - |
| trapezius | (noun) either of two flat triangular muscles of the shoulder and upper back that are involved in moving the shoulders and arms | Synonyms: cowl muscle, musculus trapezius, trapezius muscle |
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| triazine | (noun) any of three isomeric compounds having three carbon and three nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring | - |
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| trichlormethiazide | (noun) diuretic drug (trade name Naqua) used to treat hypertension | Synonyms: Naqua |
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| unappetizing | (adjective) not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste | Synonyms: unappetising |
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| unappetizingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetisingness |
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| unsympathizing | (adjective) not showing or expressing sympathy | Synonyms: unsympathising |
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| unzip | (verb) open the zipper of | - |
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| urochezia | (noun) passage of urine from the anus | Synonyms: urochesia |
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| vitalizing | (adjective) giving or having the power to give life and spirit | Synonyms: life-giving |
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| vizier | (noun) a high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire) | - |
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| viziership | (noun) the position of vizier | - |
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| vocalizing | (noun) the act of singing vocal music | Synonyms: singing |
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| wheezily | (adverb) with a wheeze | Synonyms: wheezingly |
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| wheeziness | (noun) presence of abnormal high-pitched sound heard with a stethoscope when an airway is blocked (as in asthma or chronic bronchitis) | - |
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| wheezing | (adjective) relating to breathing with a whistling sound | Synonyms: asthmatic, wheezy |
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| wheezingly | (adverb) with a wheeze | Synonyms: wheezily |
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| wurtzite | (noun) a brownish-black mineral consisting of zinc sulfide | - |
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| zidovudine | (noun) an antiviral drug (trade name Retrovir) used in the treatment of AIDS; adverse side effects include liver damage and suppression of the bone marrow | Synonyms: AZT, Retrovir, ZDV |
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| zig | (noun) an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions | Synonyms: zag, zigzag |
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| zigadene | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonous | Synonyms: death camas |
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| ziggurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: zikkurat, zikurat |
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| zigzag | (adjective) having short sharp turns or angles | Synonyms: zig-zag |
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| (noun) an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions | Synonyms: zag, zig |
| (adverb) in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path | - |
| (verb) travel along a zigzag path | Synonyms: crank |
| zigzaggedness | (noun) The state or quality of being zigzagged or alternating directions sharply. | - |
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| zikkurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: ziggurat, zikurat |
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| zikurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: ziggurat, zikkurat |
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| zilch | (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, zip, zippo |
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| zill | (noun) one of a pair of small metallic cymbals worn on the thumb and middle finger; used in belly dancing in rhythm with the dance | - |
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| zillion | (adjective) very large indeterminate number | - |
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| (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, billion, gazillion, jillion, million, trillion |
| zinc | (noun) a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende | Synonyms: atomic number 30, Zn |
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| (verb) coat or cover with zinc | - |
| zinfandel | (noun) dry fruity red wine from California | - |
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| zing | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: dynamism, oomph, pizzaz, pizzazz |
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| (noun) a brief high-pitched buzzing or humming sound | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) close with a zipper | Synonyms: zip up, zipper |
| (verb) move very fast | Synonyms: hurry, speed, travel rapidly |
| 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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| (verb) close with a zipper | Synonyms: zip, zip up |
| 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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| zippy | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking |
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| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncing, bouncy, peppy, spirited |
| 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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