English Words: Z

2,810 words · Page 9 of 57

Zaprudkaname

A village, the administrative centre of Zaprudka starostynskyi okruh, Ivankiv settlement hromada, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.

zaptiehnoun

A Turkish policeman.

zaptiénoun

A gendarme / carabineer in Italian colonies of the Ottoman Empire

Zaqname

A diminutive of the male given names Zachariah or Zachary.

Zaqatalaname

A city and district of Azerbaijan.

Zaqistanname

A self-proclaimed micronation (full name: the Republic of Zaqistan) located in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.

Zaqistaniadj

Of or pertaining to the micronation of Zaqistan.

Zaqqumname

A tree that grows in Jahannam (Hell), whose dwellers are compelled to eat the bitter fruit.

zaquenoun

A ruler in the northern area of Muisca.

zarnoun

A religious set of beliefs and practices in parts of northern Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a type of spirit.

Zaraname

A female given name.

Zarabiname

A surname from Persian.

Zaragosaname

A surname from Spanish.

Zaragozaname

A city, the regional capital of Aragon, Spain.

zaragozic acidnoun

Any of a family of natural products from fungi that are potent inhibitors of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Zarankiewicz problemname

An unsolved problem in mathematics, asking for the largest possible number of edges in a bipartite graph that has a given number of vertices and has no complete bipartite subgraphs of a given size.

zarapenoun

Alternative spelling of serape.

Zarasainame

A city and municipality of Utena County, Lithuania.

zaratannoun

In Arabic folklore, an extremely large (sea) turtle, the shell of which resembles an island.

Zaratename

A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].

Zarathushtraname

Alternative form of Zarathustra.

Zarathustraname

Synonym of Zoroaster.

Zarathustrianadj

Relating to or characteristic of Zarathustrianism (also known as Zoroastrianism).

Zarathustrianismnoun

Zoroaster's own doctrines as distinguished from later accretions (Zarathustricism, Zoroastrianism).

Zarathustricadj

Zarathustrian

Zarathustricismnoun

The teachings of Younger Avestan texts, as distinct from Zarathustrianism and also from later accretions.

zaratitenoun

a hydrous basic nickel carbonate occurring in emerald-green incrustations or compact masses

Zarayskyname

A surname from Russian.

Zarazuaname

A surname.

Zarconename

A surname from Italian.

zardanoun

The flavoured tobacco used in paan.

Zardaryanname

A surname from Armenian.

zardaverinenoun

A drug that acts as a phosphodiesterase inhibitor.

zardozinoun

A kind of embroidery using gold or silver thread.

Zarelname

A male given name from Afrikaans.

Zarembaname

A surname from Polish.

zarfnoun

An ornamental container designed to hold a coffee cup or teacup and insulate it from the hand of the drinker.

Zarfianadj

Of or relating to Andrew Plotkin ("Zarf", born 1970), a writer and critic of interactive fiction.

Zargariname

a secret language and sociolect based on Persian used by goldsmiths and some minorities of Iran, including Persian Jews

zarinoun

A fine gold or silver thread used in traditional Indian, Pakistani and Persian garments, especially as brocade in saris etc.

Zarianame

A large city in Kaduna State, Nigeria.

Zaricznyname

A surname from Ukrainian.

Zarifname

A surname from Persian.

Zarinaname

A female given name.

Zaringname

A surname from German.

Zariskiname

A surname.

Zariski topologynoun

Originally, a topology applicable to algebraic varieties, such that the closed sets are the variety's algebraic subvarieties; later, a generalisation in which the topological space is the set of prime ideals of a commutative ring and is called the spectrum of the ring.

Zariski-Riemann spacenoun

A locally ringed space of a subring k of a field K, whose points are valuation rings containing k and contained in K. They generalize the Riemann surface of a complex curve.

Zariskianadj

Of or relating to Oscar Zariski (born Oscher Zaritsky [Russian: О́шер Зари́цкий]; 1899–1986), American mathematician who had a major influence on algebraic geometry.

Zarjeh Bostanname

A village in the Kuhpayeh-e Gharbi Rural District, Central District, Abyek County, Qazvin Province, Iran.

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 9. 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.