| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| zabism | noun | See Sabianism. |
| zabian | adjective & noun | See Sabian. |
| zachun | noun | An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Aegyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment. |
| zaffer | noun | A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc. |
| zaimet | noun | A district from which a Zaim draws his revenue. |
| zamang | noun | An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree. |
| zambos | plural | of Zambo |
| zamite | noun | A fossil cycad of the genus Zamia. |
| zander | noun | A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye; — called also sandari, sander, sannat, schill, and zant. |
| zanies | plural | of Zany |
| zareba | noun | An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc. |
| zarthe | noun | A European bream (Abramis vimba). |
| zealed | adjective | Full of zeal; characterized by zeal. |
| zealot | noun | One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan. |
| zechin | noun | See Sequin. |
| zeekoe | noun | A hippopotamus. |
| zehner | noun | An Austrian silver coin equal to ten kreutzers, or about five cents. |
| zenana | noun | The part of a dwelling appropriated to women. |
| zendik | noun | An atheist or unbeliever; — name given in the East to those charged with disbelief of any revealed religion, or accused of magical heresies. |
| zenick | noun | A South African burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla), allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse stripes on the back. Called also suricat. |
| zenith | noun | That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; — opposed to nadir., hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity. |
| zephyr | noun | The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze. |
| zequin | noun | See Sequin. |
| zeriba | noun | Same as Zareba. |
| zeroes | plural | of Zero |
| zested | imp. & past participle | of Zest |
| zeugma | noun | A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, “hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;” where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma. |
| zibeth | noun | A carnivorous mammal (Viverra zibetha) closely allied to the civet, from which it differs in having the spots on the body less distinct, the throat whiter, and the black rings on the tail more numerous. |
| zigger | verb i. | Alt. of Zighyr |
| zighyr | verb i. | Same as Sicker. |
| zigzag | noun | Something that has short turns or angles., A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3., See Boyau., Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course., To form with short turns., To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape. |
| zillah | noun | A district or local division, as of a province. |
| zinced | of Zinc | |
| zincic | adjective | Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zinc; zincous. |
| zincky | adjective | Pertaining to zinc, or having its appearance. |
| zinco- | A combining form from zinc; in chemistry, designating zinc as an element of certain double compounds. Also used adjectively. | |
| zingel | noun | A small, edible, freshwater European perch (Aspro zingel), having a round, elongated body and prominent snout. |
| zinnia | noun | Any plant of the composite genus Zinnia, Mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay-colored blossoms. Zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation. |
| zirco- | A combining form (also used adjectively) designating zirconium as an element of certain double compounds; zircono-; as in zircofluoric acid, sodium zircofluoride. | |
| zircon | noun | A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia. A red variety, used as a gem, is called hyacinth. Colorless, pale-yellow or smoky-brown varieties from Ceylon are called jargon. |
| zither | noun | An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.] |
| zodiac | noun | An imaginary belt in the heavens, 16¡ or 18¡ broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun’s path. It comprises the twelve constellations, which one constituted, and from which were named, the twelve signs of the zodiac., A figure representing the signs, symbols, and constellations of the zodiac., A girdle; a belt. |
| zonate | adjective | Divided by parallel planes; as, zonate tetraspores, found in certain red algae. |
| zonnar | noun | See Zonar. |
| zonule | noun | A little zone, or girdle. |
| zonure | noun | Any one of several of South African lizards of the genus Zonura, common in rocky situations. |
| zoonic | adjective | Of or pertaining to animals; obtained from animal substances. |
| zootic | adjective | Containing the remains of organized bodies; — said of rock or soil. |
| zoozoo | noun | The wood pigeon. |
| zoster | noun | Shingles. |
| zouave | noun | One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Arabs, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Arab dress., Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65. |
| zounds | interj. | An exclamation formerly used as an oath, and an expression of anger or wonder. |
| zoutch | verb t. | To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or liquid to cover them. |
| zufolo | noun | A little flute or flageolet, especially that which is used to teach birds. |
| zuisin | noun | The American widgeon. |
| zygoma | noun | The jugal, malar, or cheek bone., The zygomatic process of the temporal bone., The whole zygomatic arch. |
| zymase | noun | A soluble ferment, or enzyme. See Enzyme. |
| zymome | noun | A glutinous substance, insoluble in alcohol, resembling legumin; — now called vegetable fibrin, vegetable albumin, or gluten casein. |
| zymose | noun | Invertin. |
| zythem | noun | See Zythum. |
| zythum | noun | A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat. |