English Words: Z

2,810 words · Page 3 of 57

zaftigeadj

Alternative spelling of zaftig.

zafunoun

A round cushion used for sitting during meditation.

zagnoun

One of a series of sharp turns or reversals.

zagamiitenoun

A mineral of previously unknown structure containing aluminium, silicon, calcium, and oxygen.

zaggernoun

One who zags.

Zaghlulismnoun

Political support for the Egyptian statesman Saad Zaghlul.

Zaghlulistnoun

A supporter of the Egyptian statesman Saad Zaghlul.

Zaghouanname

A town in Tunisia.

Zagonname

A commune, village, and river in Covasna County, Romania.

Zagoriname

A municipality of Epirus, Greece.

Zagorskiname

A surname from Polish.

zagotzernonoun

A facility for storing and processing grain in certain rural locations in Soviet Russia.

Zagraname

A village and commune of Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania.

Zagrebname

The capital and largest city of Croatia.

Zagrebačkaname

Synonym of Zagreb (“county of Croatia”).

Zagrebianadj

Of, from or relating to Zagreb.

Zagreusname

An obscure figure in Greek mythology who, according to Orphic tradition, was the son of Zeus and Persephone who was destroyed by the Titans but reborn through the intervention of Zeus as Dionysus.

Zagrosname

A mountain range in Iran.

zaguannoun

A passageway of a central passage plan house, or the complex as a whole, in Territorial or Territorial Revival architecture in the American Southwest.

Zaharchukname

A surname from Ukrainian.

Zahavianadj

Of or relating to Amotz Zahavi (1928–2017), Israeli evolutionary biologist.

zaheritenoun

A mineral, a complex sulphate of aluminium, coloured white to blue-green.

zahidnoun

An ascetic.

zahirnoun

The external or apparent meaning of the Qur'an

Zahiriname

A liberal and literalist madhab in Islam that considers everything halal if it is not explicitly forbidden in the Quran and mutawatir hadiths

Zahirismnoun

The Sunni Islamic movement that promotes the apparent meaning of the Quran.

Zahnname

A surname from German.

Zahnisername

A surname from German.

Zahraname

A female given name from Arabic.

Zahranname

A male given name from Arabic, meaning “bright or pure”.

zaiadj

extremely skilled; talented.

zaibatsunoun

A large business conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan, generally controlled by a single family or individual.

Zaidname

A male given name from Arabic.

zaidanoun

Alternative spelling of zayde.

zaidenoun

Alternative spelling of zayde.

Zaidenname

A male given name originating as a coinage.

Zaidiadj

Of or pertaining to a particular branch of Shi'a Islam.

Zaiditenoun

Synonym of Zaidi.

zaidynoun

Alternative spelling of zayde.

Zaietsname

A surname from Ukrainian.

zaikainoun

Collectively, the powerful and influential businesspeople and tycoons of Japan.

zailnoun

An administrative unit of two to forty villages during the British Raj in India.

Zailckasname

A surname.

zaildarnoun

A native officer in charge of a zail.

zaimnoun

A Turkish irregular mounted militia.

zainnoun

A horse of a dark colour with no lighter spots.

Zainichinoun

A long-term Korean resident of Japan whose ancestry dates to Korea under Japanese rule.

Zaioncname

A surname from Polish.

Zaiontsname

A surname from Polish.

Zaiontzname

A surname from Polish.

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 3. 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.