Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
zealant |
noun |
One who is zealous; a zealot; an enthusiast. |
zealful |
adjective |
Full of zeal. |
zealous |
adjective |
Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object., Filled with religious zeal. |
zebrine |
adjective |
Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra. |
zedoary |
noun |
A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indies, having a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste. It is used in medicine as a stimulant. |
zeolite |
noun |
A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe. |
zesting |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Zest |
zetetic |
adjective |
Seeking; proceeding by inquiry., A seeker; — a name adopted by some of the Pyrrhonists. |