Elementary Vocabulary
36,007 words and 29 expressions at the elementary level.
The twenty-sixth letter of the English alphabet, called zed, zee or izzard and written in the Latin script.
English rendering of a common Hebrew posthumous honorific.
plural of z
z-axis
Initialism of zoological garden.
Of blessed memory, may he/she/they rest in peace; used after a reference to one or more people who died.
a 64-bit operating system for IBM's z/Architecture mainframes, introduced in 2000.
Initialism of zinc-aluminium (alloy).
The letter ظ in the Arabic script.
Alternative form of zar.
plural of zaa
A surname.
A Mughal land revenue system that replaced the earlier tribute system with a monetary tax system based on a uniform currency.
A male given name from Swahili.
Alternative form of zack.
A diminutive of the male given names Zachariah or Zachary.
A diminutive of the male given names Zachariah or Zachary.
plural of zac
Obsolete form of zed (“letter Z”).
Alternative spelling of zayde.
plural of ZAD
A round cushion used for sitting during meditation.
One of a series of sharp turns or reversals.
plural of zag
A surname.
Abbreviation of zero-age horizontal branch.
A surname.
A surname from German.
extremely skilled; talented.
A male given name from Arabic.
An administrative unit of two to forty villages during the British Raj in India.
A Turkish irregular mounted militia.
A horse of a dark colour with no lighter spots.
A diminutive of the male given names Zachariah or Zachary.
A series of Israeli disaster response teams.
A surname.
plural of zak
Alternative form of Zakho.
A county of Hungary.
Any of the genus Zale of erebid moths.
An instant messaging service from Vietnam.
shortened form of kazaam
Abbreviation of Zambia.
Synonym of zama-zama.
plural of zam
A diminutive of the female given names Susan, Susanne, Suzanne, or Susanna.
Relating to the Zand dynasty.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A surname.
A certain portion of the coast of East Africa.
Acronym of Zimbabwe African National Union
To leave hastily, to take off.
Representing the sound or action of a zap.
A surname.
plural of zap
Acronym of Zimbabwe African People's Union.
A diminutive of the male given names Zachariah or Zachary.
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.
A female given name.
Synonym of tombak (“a type of goblet drum used heavily in Persian music”)
An ornamental container designed to hold a coffee cup or teacup and insulate it from the hand of the drinker.
A West Chadic language of Nigeria.
A surname.
A surname from Italian.
A member of the South African Republic Police
A surname from German.
plural of Zar
plural of za
Pronunciation spelling of that, usually signifying a foreign accent, often French.
Synonym of soft.
Macaca radiata, a macaque native to India and Sri Lanka with a hairstyle similar to a centre parting.
A surname.
Linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation, associated with futurist poets of the Russian Empire.
A surname from German.
A state of ritual impurity arising from abnormal seminal discharge by the male.
plural of zav
A surname from Burmese.
A deep and narrow sea-inlet in the British Isles, especially Cornwall and the south-west, cut by erosion into sea-cliffs, and with steep or vertical side-walls; a cave through which the tide flows into a cliff.
A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.
Pronunciation spelling of they, usually signifying a foreign accent, often French or German.
A surname from Russian.
A male given name from Arabic.
The letter ز in the Arabic script.
A county of Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
A member of an ethnic minority of Iranian origin in eastern Turkey.
A Pashtun tribe.
Abbreviation of Zbit.
A surname.
Initialism of zero-based budgeting.
Initialism of zone bit recording.
A Rgyalrongic language spoken in China.
Abbreviation of Zechariah.
Initialism of zoned constant linear velocity, a modification of CLV that divides the disc into stepped zones, each with its own constant linear velocity.
Initialism of zero-coupon note.
plural of ZCN
Initialism of zenith distance.
A surname.
Initialism of zinc dialkyldithiophosphate.
Initialism of Zimbabwe Defence Forces.
Abbreviation of zidovudine.
The name of the Cyrillic script letter З / з.
A surname.
A highly concentrated fluid extract of cornsilk used as a diuretic and urinary antiseptic.
plural of zea
A diminutive of the male given names Zebadiah, Zebedee, Zebulon, or Zebulun.
A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos taurus indicus).
Acronym of zero-emission certificate.
Abbreviation of Zechariah.
plural of ZEC
A diminutive of the male given name Zedekiah.
Alternative spelling of zayde.
A surname.
plural of zed
A surname.
simple past and past participle of zee
A surname.
Alternative form of zir (“water jug”).
plural of zee
A South African counterculture movement associated with the white lower middle class.
A surname.
Any fish in the family Zeidae.
A protein derived from corn/maize, having many industrial applications.
A prisoner at a Russian prison, especially (historical) at a Soviet labour camp.
A diminutive of the male given name Ezekiel, also used as a formal given name.
plural of zek
Alternative form of zill.
Former name of Yell: an island, one of the Shetland islands.
plural of zel
Alternative form of zemi.
Any of various local deities, human or animal and represented by small idols, once worshipped by the Caribbean peoples of the Taino culture.
plural of zem
A school of Mahayana Buddhism characterized by sudden enlightenment achieved by indirect means and principally associated with China and Japan.
Exegetical glosses, paraphrases, commentaries and translations of the Avesta's texts.
Alternative spelling of zhng.
A surname.
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
A surname from German.
A surname.
A surname from German.
A pre-Columbian culture in Colombia from about 200 BCE to about 1600 CE, whose ancestral territory comprises the valleys of the Sinú and San Jorge rivers as well as the coast of the Caribbean around the Gulf of Morrosquillo.
the hot water added to the chalice by the priest during the Byzantine Eucharist to commemorate the water that flowed from the crucified Christ's side when pierced by the spear
A certain type of submarine sandwich
Abbreviation of Zephaniah.
A diminutive of the male given name Zephaniah, from Hebrew.
A surname.
plural of zep
Synonym of Poskam: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
A member of Generation Z.
Any of a class of types of grease nipples, or an instance thereof; (usually, in current usage) any grease nipple.
A surname
The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.
A surname.
plural of Zer
Initialism of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.
Alternative form of zetz
A surname from German.
Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera.
Abbreviation of zero-emission vehicle.
plural of ZEV
A river in southeastern Russia, a tributary of the Amur.
Abbreviation of zero emission zone.
A stringed instrument of sub-Saharan Africa.
plural of ZEZ
Initialism of Zermelo-Fraenkel (set theory): a particular axiomatic formulation of set theory without the axiom of choice.
Initialism of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with Choice; the standard axiomatization of set theory, including the axiom of choice.
Initialism of Zettabyte File System.
A surname.
A surname from Chinese.
A former city-state in Hongdong, Shanxi, China, under the Zhou.
The letter Ж, ж.
The letter for the zh sound /ʒ/ in Pitman shorthand.
Clipping of zhenniao
plural of zhe
Alternative spelling of dzo.
A city in Balochistan, Pakistan.
plural of zho
Synonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.
Initialism of Zenithal Hourly Rate.
An ancient Chinese unit of weight, notionally equivalent to 100 millet seeds or 1/24 of the liang/tael/Chinese ounce, chiefly used in denominating small coins in ancient and early imperial China.
Alternative form of skhug.
A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Жук (Žuk).
Exact, precise, spot-on.
A surname.
plural of zhu
Any of the three main territorial and tribal divisions in the Kipchak Plain area that cover much of the contemporary Kazakhstan, and represent the main tribal division within the ethnic group of the Kazakhs.
A male given name from Arabic popular among Muslims.
Abbreviation of zebibyte.
A prefecture-level city in central Shandong, China.
A surname.
Initialism of Zero insertion force.
A surname from Hebrew.
Zygote intrafallopian transfer, a technique in which a fertilized egg is inserted into the recipient's Fallopian tube.
A sudden or sharp turn or change of direction.
plural of zig
A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.
Acronym for IBM's System z Integrated Information Processor
An Islamic book that tabulates parameters used for various astronomical events and movements.
The disease caused by the Zika virus.
A surname from Czech.
Alternative form of dhikr.
Alternative form of zill (kind of cymbal)
Alternative form of zillah.
One of a set of small finger cymbals used in belly dancing and similar performances.
plural of zil
An unincorporated community in Minnesota, United States.
Abbreviation of Zimbabwe.
A surname.
An Ethiopian horsefly of the genus Pangonius, destructive to livestock.
A female given name.
A low-circulation, noncommercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.
A surname.
A surname from German.
The superpartner of the Z-boson.
plural of zin
Alternative letter-case form of Zio.
A hill in Jerusalem, Israel, on which ancient Jerusalem was partly built; a centrepiece to Biblical accounts of old days and future eschatological events.
plural of Zio
A department of Nahouri, Burkina Faso.
Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
A ruler in the southern area of Muisca.
A surname from German.
A surname.
simple past and past participle of zipper
plural of zip
A large clay jug for storing water, common in Egypt and the Sudan since ancient times.
A female given name.
Alternative letter-case form of ZIRP (“zero interest rate policy”).
plural of zir
Pronunciation spelling of this.
Alternative spelling of ziti.
A surname from Italian.
plural of zit
Alternative form of scythe.
Alternative form of zizz.
English rendering of a Hebrew posthumous honorific applied to martyrs
Initialism of zero-knowledge proof.
plural of ZKP
Abbreviation of zloty.
An oath; expressing fury, surprise etc.
Initialism of zero-length launch.
Ellipsis of ZLR camera.
plural of ZLR
Initialism of Zimmermann-Laband syndrome.
plural of zl.
Acronym of zero-length takeoff (“a military launch method where an aircraft uses rocket boosters for a nearly vertical take-off”).
A city in southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic, on the Dřevnice River.
Initialism of Zimbabwe National Army.
Initialism of Zambia National Service.
Alternative spelling of dzo.
A native Tupí–Guaraní tribe in the State of Pará, Municipality of Óbidos, on the Cuminapanema River, Brazil.
contracted form of zoo-
plural of zoon
A place of refuge; a sanctuary.
A kind of Asian cattle, supposed to be a hybrid between the zebu and yak.
Synonym of sock: a blow, a strike.
A unit of zodiacal dust, equal to the amount of interplanetary dust in the inner solar system, which absorbs light and re-radiates it with a luminosity about 10⁻⁷ that of the sun.
plural of zod
A female given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Zoë.
Alternative spelling of zoëa.
A female given name from Ancient Greek, a phonetic spelling of Zoë.
Alternative form of ZOG.
An oracle or priest among the Torres Strait Islanders.
Initialism of zero-order hold.
Initialism of Zero One Infinity, a rule of thumb in software suggesting that arbitrary limits on the number of entity instances are not allowed.
Showing traces of life; containing organic remains.
A reproductive cell that possesses one or more flagella, and is capable of independent movement.
A female given name.
A surname from Italian.
A surname.
Alternative form of zol.
plural of zol
A building with unusual geometry.
Alternative letter-case form of ZOMG.
The Zou people who speak the Zou language, a Northern Kukish language.
Alternative spelling of dzomo.
A cyan color with green in it.
A zone or band; a layer.
A surname from Chinese.
The offspring of a male zebra and a female pony.
plural of zona
animal
A surname.
A humming noise from something moving very fast.
plural of zoo
Initialism of zone of possible agreement.
A fish of species Ballerus ballerus (syn. Abramis ballerus) native to Eurasia.
A surname.
A large, transparent, inflatable ball, inside which a person may be secured and then rolled downhill.
A Japanese sandal made from rice straw or lacquered wood, worn with a kimono for formal occasions.
A text-based adventure game.
A surname.
plural of zo
Alternative spelling of Joshi.
The characteristic sound made by an anteater's tongue or by lightning.
third-person singular simple present indicative of zot
An indigenous people living along the frontier of India and Burma.
A style of dance music originating in the French Antilles, combining Latin American, African and Western disco rhythms; a dance to this music
Soul.
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
A larval stage of certain decapod crustaceans, especially of decapods such as crabs and certain Anomura, also called the copepod stage, characterized by spines on the carapace and rudimentary thoracic and abdominal limbs.
Rare spelling of zoo-.
Alternative spelling of zoon.
Initialism of zona pellucida.
Zero population growth: a condition of demographic balance where population remains constant over time.
plural of ZP
Initialism of Zanzibar Revenue Authority.
Initialism of Zimbabwe Republic Police.
plural of z
Initialism of zero-shot learning.
Abbreviation of zstandard, a compression algorithm.
the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
English rendering of a Hebrew posthumous honorific, usually applied to deceased rabbis or other holy figures
Initialism of zero trust architecture.
plural of ZTA
A lesser divinity of Akkadian mythology, and the son of the bird goddess Siris.
A surname from the Slavic languages
One of several species of European bison or aurochs, which were unclearly delineated in the 1800s when this sense was in use.
A courgette; a variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo, which bears edible fruit.
Alternative form of dzud.
plural of zud
A canton of Switzerland.
Alternative form of dhuhr.
Acronym of zooming user interface.
A resort in Suriname.
plural of ZUI
A surname from Polish.
plural of Zuk
One of the three stylized pillars (often considered chess rooks) in the canting arms of Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein.
sin, wrong-doing, injustice
The language of these people, a Bantu language; isiZulu.
A surname.
A type of Chinese ritual bronze or ceramic wine vessel with a round or square vase-like form, sometimes in the shape of an animal.
Of or pertaining to the Zuni people or their traditional language.
A surname.
plural of zun
A surname.
plural of Zuo
Alternative form of 'sup (“what's up? how are you?”).
An administrative unit among various South Slavic peoples.
Alternative form of zarf.
A unisex given name from Swahili, of modern African American usage
A surname.
An ancient Hebrew silver coin, one quarter of a shekel.
Alternative form of zuz (“ancient Hebrew coin”).
Alternative spelling of Zuni.
Acronym of zero-width joiner.
plural of ZWJ
Initialism of zero-width non-joiner (“non-printing character used to avoid ligatures”).
A surname from Polish.
union
plural of zygon
A surname from Polish.
Alternative form of zymo- (before a vowel).
A ferment.
A brand of tobacco-free snus (nicotine pouches) originating from Sweden.
plural of Zyn
A surname.
A surname from Polish.
An ancient region located on the northern slopes of the Western Caucasus.
A snoring sound, implying that somebody is asleep.
third-person singular simple present indicative of zzz
A female given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Zoë.
Alternative spelling of zori.