English Words: Z
2,810 words · Page 5 of 57
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Someone who was born during a time period roughly between the end of Generation Z and the beginning of Generation Alpha.
A human monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of cancer of the head and neck.
A person who works illegally in abandoned mineshafts in order to retrieve metals or minerals.
An ancient colonial dance and music that originated in the Viceroyalty of Peru, taking its roots from African, Spanish, and Andean rhythms.
Any of a family of alloys with a zinc base and alloying elements of aluminium, magnesium, and copper.
An affluent district of central Cairo, Egypt, encompassing the northern portion of Gezira Island in the Nile river.
A province of Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines. Capital: Iba. Largest city: Olongapo City.
A river in Southern Africa, flowing south and west from Zambia through east Angola and Zambia and then east along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zambia. Formerly called Northern Rhodesia.
A province of Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, Philippines. Capital and largest city: Dipolog.
A province of Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, Philippines. Capital: Pagadian. Largest city: Zamboanga City.
A Spanish friction drum, consisting of a ceramic pot with a skin and a pole in the middle. To play it, the stick is rubbed to make a deep sound
An early electric battery constructed from discs of silver foil, zinc foil, and paper.
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 5. 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.