English Words: Z
2,810 words · Page 38 of 57
A command and control center that guides and directs a zombie computer or zombie network.
A second mortgage which a debtor falsely believes to be forgiven or paid off, typically arising from a mortgage lender selling the debt to another servicer without notifying the borrower.
A poorly-run, moribund, or outdated organization, especially one that cannot accomplish any meaningful goals.
The later seasons of the animated television comedy The Simpsons, when regarded as mediocre and past their prime.
A hypothetical remnant star left behind by a type Iax supernova, which only partially dispersed the progenitor star.
A taxon that falsely appears to persist until, or reappear at, a time in the fossil record later than the taxon's actual point of extinction, due to fossils of organisms belonging to the taxon having been eroded from their original strata and redeposited in the source sediments for younger strata.
A scientific theory that has been disproved, or for which attempts to prove it have failed, but which continues to be presented as a viable theory.
In a zombie state (said either of a zombie process or of a computer covertly controlled by malware).
The act or practice of ghosting someone and later returning unexpectedly without explanation or apology.
An out-of-control communications satellite which cannot maintain its original orbit but remains capable of re-transmitting any signal it receives.
A pyrazolodiazepinone-derived drug, structurally related to certain benzodiazepine analogues.
Highland areas of the Indochina region of peninsular Southeast Asia that are historically outside the control of governments based in the population centres in the lowlands.
A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vanna with respect to changes in the spot price, or equivalently the rate of change of gamma with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
A regimen of medical treatment that involves prescribing a diet of raw meat in order to fight a disease.
The most superficial layer of the adrenal cortex, lying directly beneath the adrenal gland's capsule, and responsible for producing and secreting the mineralocorticoid aldosterone into the blood as part of the renin-angiotensin system.
A horizontally elongated region of grey matter in the subthalamus, of unknown function.
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 38. 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.