English Words: Z
2,810 words · Page 23 of 57
A town in Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, on the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay and important under the Qing as a port and military garrison.
A hydroxy fluoride mineral of aluminium that forms colourless, transparent crystals.
Of or relating to Andrei Zhdanov (1896–1948), Soviet politician and propagandist who formulated the Zhdanov Doctrine.
The ideological repression of artists and intellectuals in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s.
A Boolean-valued polynomial formed as a XOR-sum (or "ring sum") of conjunctions.
A coastal province in eastern China, running from Hangzhou Bay to Fujian. Capital: Hangzhou.
A mineral of organic origin with chemical formula NaMg(FeAl)C₂O₄.8H₂O, forming smoky green crystals with a vitreous lustre.
A poisonous bird from Chinese mythology that is said to have existed in what is now southern China.
A district of Dandong, Liaoning, China, across the Yalu River from Sinuiju, North Pyongan, North Korea.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter Z contains 2,810 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 57 pages, and you are currently viewing page 23. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "Z" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.