English Words: Z
2,810 words · Page 6 of 57
A small cannon supported by a swiveled rest, especially as mounted on the back of a camel.
of or pertaining to L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), creator of Esperanto (often with respect to Esperanto usage)
In British India, a system used to collect revenues from the ryots (cultivators of agricultural land) indirectly through the zamindars, as opposed to ryotwari, where revenues were collected directly.
An emerald palm (Zamioculcas zamiifolia (Araceae)), native to east Africa, grown as a houseplant.
In Italian cookery, stuffed pig's trotter with spicy ground pork, usually dried and cured, often served with lentils.
Of or relating to Yevgeny Zamyatin (Евге́ний Замя́тин, 1884–1937), Russian author of science fiction and political satire.
An Islamic holy well in Mecca, supposed to have been miraculously generated by Allah when Abraham's infant son Ishmael was crying for water.
An antiviral drug C₁₂H₂₀N₄O₇ that is a neuraminidase inhibitor taken by oral inhalation in the treatment and prophylaxis of Influenzavirus.
A complex phosphate with the chemical formula Ca₂(Mg,Fe)(Mg,Fe,Mn,Al)₄Be₄(OH)₄(PO₄)₆·6H₂O, having a pale to dark olive-green colour.
A theorised flood, 5.33 million years ago, of the Mediterranean basin, then dry due to the Messinian salinity crisis, triggered by its reconnection with the Atlantic Ocean, that marks the transition from the Miocene epoch (Messinian age) to the Pliocene epoch (Zanclean age).
A European freshwater fish in the family Percidae, closely related to the perch, Sander lucioperca.
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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 6. 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.