English Words: Z
2,810 words · Page 52 of 57
A double-reed outdoor wind instrument, usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian folk music.
A now-extinct branch of Zoroastrianism that had the divinity Zurvan as its primordial creator deity.
A rare recurrent condition characterized by draining abscesses around the nipple.
The ship of characters Zuko and Katara from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
A traditional rice wine brewed in Nagaland, a thick white beverage with a fruity aroma and sour taste.
A Z letter used by Russian nationalists, usually to support Vladimir Putin or the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Pursued after evaluating its consequences and consideration of the various means to achieve it.
Technical rationality; rationality in accordance with organizational demands instead of moral demands.
A two-handed sword primarily of Renaissance Germany, up to a fathom in length, invented in the 14th century.
A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
A form of rusk, usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp; considered easy to digest and therefore given to the ill and used as a teething food for toddlers.
A brown to black mineral containing manganese, iron, phosphorus, oxygen, and fluorine.
A surname from German [in turn from Alemannic German], notably borne by Huldrych Zwingli, a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.
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 52. 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.