| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| zamindar | noun | A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue. |
| zampogna | noun | A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete. |
| zandmole | noun | The sand mole. |
| zaratite | noun | A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; — called also emerald nickel. |
| zealless | adjective | Wanting zeal. |
| zealotry | noun | The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause. |
| zemindar | noun | Same as Zamindar. |
| zenithal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the zenith. |
| zeolitic | adjective | Of or pertaining to a zeolite; consisting of, or resembling, a zeolite. |
| zephyrus | noun | The west wind, or zephyr; — usually personified, and made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities. |
| zetetics | adjective | A branch of algebra which relates to the direct search for unknown quantities. |
| zigzaggy | adjective | Having sharp turns. |
| zincking | present participle & vb. noun | of Zinc, Alt. of Zincing |
| ziphioid | noun | See Xiphioid. |
| zirconia | noun | The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light. |
| zirconic | adjective | Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zirconium; as, zirconic oxide; zirconic compounds. |
| zoanthus | noun | A genus of Actinaria, including numerous species, found mostly in tropical seas. The zooids or polyps resemble small, elongated actinias united together at their bases by fleshy stolons, and thus forming extensive groups. The tentacles are small and bright colored. |
| zodiacal | adjective | Of or pertaining to the zodiac; situated within the zodiac; as, the zodiacal planets. |
| zoetrope | noun | An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved. |
| zomboruk | noun | See Zumbooruk. |
| zoneless | adjective | Not having a zone; ungirded. |
| zoochemy | noun | Animal chemistry; zoochemistry. |
| zoocytia | plural | of Zoocytium |
| zooecium | noun | One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss. |
| zoogenic | adjective | Of or pertaining to zoogeny, animal production. |
| zoogloea | noun | A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively. |
| zoolatry | noun | The worship of animals. |
| zoologer | noun | A zoologist. |
| zoophaga | noun pl. | An artificial group comprising various carnivorous and insectivorous animals. |
| zoophily | noun | Love of animals. |
| zoophite | noun | A zoophyte. |
| zoophyta | noun pl. | An extensive artificial and heterogeneous group of animals, formerly adopted by many zoologists. It included the c/lenterates, echinoderms, sponges, Bryozoa, Protozoa, etc. |
| zoophyte | verb i. | Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids., Any one of the Zoophyta. |
| zoosperm | noun | One of the spermatic particles; spermatozoid. |
| zoospore | noun | A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore., See Swarmspore. |
| zopilote | noun | The urubu, or American black vulture. |
| zuchetto | noun | A skullcap covering the tonsure, worn under the berretta. The pope’s is white; a cardinal’s red; a bishop’s purple; a priest’s black. |
| zumology | noun | Alt. of Zumometer |
| zygantra | plural | of Zygantrum |
| zyophyte | noun | Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeae), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf. Oophyte. |
| zylonite | noun | Celluloid. |
| zymogene | noun | One of a physiological group of globular bacteria which produces fermentations of diverse nature; — distinguished from pathogene. |
| zymology | noun | A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation. |