English Words: Z
2,810 words · Page 28 of 57
A particular beta-adrenergic agonist used to increase size and feed efficiency in beef cattle.
A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zimbabwe. Formerly called Southern Rhodesia or Rhodesia.
A yellow-brown mineral with chemical formula (Na,K)₂PbAs₄(Nb,Ta,Ti)₄O₁₈, generally classed as an arsenite.
A language combining English with Zimbabwean languages, such as Shona, Zulu, Ndebele and Xhosa.
A set of anti-war political beliefs that emerged in 1915 in Siberia amongst political exiles in Irkutsk.
The self-imposed "withdrawal" of a part of God to enable the creation of the universe, as described by Isaac Luria.
A chemical element (symbol Zn) with an atomic number of 30, a blue-silvery metal that is slightly brittle at room temperature and tarnishes slightly in moist air.
Hydrous carbonate of zinc, usually occurring in white earthy incrustations; hydrozincite.
Any salt formally derived from zinc oxide or hydroxide by combination with a more electropositive element.
A triclinic-pinacoidal greenish yellow mineral containing arsenic, copper, hydrogen, iron, lead, oxygen, and zinc.
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 28. 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.