English Words: Z
2,810 words · Page 47 of 57
The use of living animals for medical treatment or as an adjunct to medical diagnosis.
The total habitat available for colonization within any certain ecotope or biotope by animal life.
A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies.
Any of the yellow pigmentary particles, or minute corpuscles of yellow coloring matter, found in certain radiolarians.
Any of a group of dinoflagellates of the zooxanthellae, represented by genus Symbiodinium and its allies, symbionts involved in coral.
A New World vulture of the family Cathartidae, especially the black vulture (Coragyps atratus).
A large, transparent, inflatable ball, inside which a person may be secured and then rolled downhill.
A form of nonferrous scrap metal consisting mainly of aluminum, especially that which is left behind after an automobile is shredded and the iron and steel is removed.
A Japanese sandal made from rice straw or lacquered wood, worn with a kimono for formal occasions.
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 47. 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.