| apoenzyme | (noun) a protein that combines with a coenzyme to form an active enzyme | - |
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| azygos | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygous |
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| azygous | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygos |
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| azymia | (noun) absence of an enzyme | - |
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| benzyl | (noun) the univalent radical derived from toluene | Synonyms: benzyl group, benzyl radical |
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| benzylic | (adjective) relating to benzyl | - |
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| benzylpenicillin | (noun) the penicillin that constitutes the principal component of many commercial antibiotics | Synonyms: penicillin G |
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| blowzy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| boozy | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, drunken, sottish |
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| breezy | (adjective) fresh and animated | - |
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| (adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: blowy, windy |
| bronzy | (adjective) of the color of bronze | Synonyms: bronze |
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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 |
| chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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| coenzyme | (noun) a small molecule (not a protein but sometimes a vitamin) essential for the activity of some enzymes | - |
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| cozy | (adjective) suggesting connivance | Synonyms: cosy |
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| (adjective) enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space | Synonyms: cosy, snug |
| (adjective) having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere | Synonyms: cosy, informal, intimate |
| (noun) a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm | Synonyms: cosy, tea cosy, tea cozy |
| crazy | (adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: dotty, gaga, wild |
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| (adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement | - |
| (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: half-baked, screwball, softheaded |
| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) bizarre or fantastic | - |
| (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: looney, loony, nutcase, weirdo |
| crazyweed | (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, locoweed |
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| dizygotic | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygous |
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| dizygous | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygotic |
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| dizzy | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| (adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: giddy, vertiginous, woozy |
| (verb) make dizzy or giddy | - |
| dozy | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: drowsing, drowsy |
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| enzymatic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by an enzyme | - |
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| enzyme | (noun) any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions | - |
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| enzymologist | (noun) a person who is trained in or engaged in enzymology | - |
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| enzymology | (noun) the branch of biochemistry dealing with the chemical nature and biological activity of enzymes | - |
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| fizzy | (adjective) hissing and bubbling | Synonyms: fizzing |
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| floozy | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| frenzy | (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, delirium, fury, hysteria |
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| frizzy | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, kinky, nappy |
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| frowzy | (adjective) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt | Synonyms: frowsy, slovenly |
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| fuzzy | (adjective) covering with fine light hairs | Synonyms: fuzzed |
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| (adjective) confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out | - |
| (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, hazy, muzzy |
| gauzy | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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| hazy | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: brumous, foggy, misty |
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| (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, muzzy |
| heterozygosity | (noun) the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene | - |
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| heterozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring | - |
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| heterozygous | (adjective) having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| homozygosity | (noun) the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene | - |
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| homozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic | - |
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| homozygous | (adjective) having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| jazzy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, showy, sporty |
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| (adjective) resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm) | - |
| lazy | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: faineant, indolent, otiose, slothful, work-shy |
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| (adjective) moving slowly and gently | - |
| lazybones | (noun) a lazy person | - |
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| lysozyme | (noun) an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria | Synonyms: muramidase |
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| mazy | (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthian, labyrinthine |
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| monozygotic | (adjective) derived from a single fertilized egg | - |
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| muzzy | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muddled, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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| (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy |
| nonenzymatic | (adjective) not relating to or produced by enzymes | - |
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| oozy | (adjective) leaking out slowly | Synonyms: oozing, seeping |
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| proenzyme | (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: zymogen |
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| ritzy | (adjective) luxuriously elegant | - |
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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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| schmalzy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| sleazy | (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sordid, squalid |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, tinny |
| (adjective) of cloth; thin and loosely woven | - |
| snazzy | (adjective) flashily stylish | - |
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| sneezy | (adjective) inclined to sneeze | - |
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| syzygy | (noun) the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system | - |
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| tizzy | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, flap, fuss, pother |
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| wheezy | (adjective) having a tone of a reed instrument | Synonyms: reedy |
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| (adjective) relating to breathing with a whistling sound | Synonyms: asthmatic, wheezing |
| woozy | (adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: dizzy, giddy, vertiginous |
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| zydeco | (noun) music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues | - |
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| zygodactyl | (adjective) (of bird feet) having the first and fourth toes directed backward the second and third forward | - |
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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 | (adjective) of or relating to the cheek region of the face | - |
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| (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 |
| zygomorphic | (adjective) capable of division into symmetrical halves by only one longitudinal plane passing through the axis | Synonyms: bilaterally symmetrical, zygomorphous |
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| zygomorphous | (adjective) capable of division into symmetrical halves by only one longitudinal plane passing through the axis | Synonyms: bilaterally symmetrical, zygomorphic |
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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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| zygotic | (adjective) of or relating to a zygote | - |
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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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| zymoid | (adjective) resembling an enzyme | - |
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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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| zymolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing fermentation | Synonyms: zymotic |
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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 |
| zymotic | (adjective) relating to or caused by infection | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or causing fermentation | Synonyms: zymolytic |
| zymurgy | (noun) the branch of chemistry concerned with fermentation (as in making wine or brewing or distilling) | Synonyms: zymology |
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