5-letter words containing z, a
- ozawa — Seiji [sey-jee] /ˈseɪ dʒi/ (Show IPA), born 1935, Japanese conductor in the U.S.
- ozmas — a festival resembling Christmas, celebrated at midwinter in the southern hemisphere
- panza — Sancho, Sancho Panza.
- penza — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe.
- pfalz — German name of The Palatinate.
- pinza — Ezio [et-see-oh,, ey-zee-oh;; Italian e-tsyaw] /ˈɛt siˌoʊ,, ˈeɪ ziˌoʊ;; Italian ˈɛ tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1957, Italian basso, in the U.S.
- pizza — a flat, open-faced baked pie of Italian origin, consisting of a thin layer of bread dough topped with spiced tomato sauce and cheese, often garnished with anchovies, sausage slices, mushrooms, etc.
- plaza — a public square or open space in a city or town.
- rabiz — (music) A popular modern Armenian music style. Shows Middle Eastern influences and is related to Russian blatnyak and Azeri mugham. Considered tasteless and vulgar by educated people.
- razee — a ship, especially a warship, reduced in height by the removal of the upper deck.
- razer — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- razoo — an imaginary coin
- razor — a sharp-edged instrument used especially for shaving the face or trimming the hair.
- rizal — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1861–96, Philippine patriot, novelist, poet, and physician.
- rnzaf — Royal New Zealand Air Force
- sadza — a southern African porridge
- seaze — to seize
- senza — without; omitting
- sizar — (at Cambridge University and at Trinity College, Dublin) an undergraduate who receives maintenance aid from the college.
- smaze — a mixture of haze and smoke.
- spazz — an awkward or clumsy person.
- swazi — a member of a Nguni people of Swaziland and the Republic of South Africa.
- taraz — a city in S Kazakhstan: chemical manufacturing. Pop: 339 000 (2005 est)
- tazza — a shallow, saucerlike, ornamental bowl, often having handles and usually on a high base or pedestal.
- tisza — a river in S central Europe, rising in the Ukraine and flowing from the Carpathian Mountains along the Romanian border into E Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia, where it joins the Danube N of Belgrade. 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- topaz — a mineral, a fluosilicate of aluminum, usually occurring in prismatic orthorhombic crystals of various colors, and used as a gem.
- tuzla — a city in NE Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- tzara — Tristan, original name Samuel Rosenstock. 1896–1963, French poet and essayist, born in Romania, best known as the founder of Dada: author of The Approximate Man (1931).
- vaduz — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
- waitz — Greta, 1953–2011, Norwegian distance runner.
- waltz — a ballroom dance, in moderately fast triple meter, in which the dancers revolve in perpetual circles, taking one step to each beat.
- wanze — to decrease or curtail
- warez — Software that has been illegally copied and made available.
- wazir — Alternative form of vizier.
- wazoo — the anus.
- yatzy — A dice game.
- yazoo — a city in W central Mississippi.
- z-bar — a steel bar with a Z -shaped section, used in building construction.
- zabra — a small 16th century Spanish sailing vessel
- zacks — Plural form of zack.
- zadar — a seaport in W Croatia, on the Adriatic: formerly, with surrounding territory, an exclave of Italy.
- zadok — a priest at the time of David and Solomon. I Sam. 15:34–37; I Kings 1:7, 8.
- zahir — (Islam) The external or apparent meaning of the Qur'an.
- zaidi — a member of a Shiʿite sect prominent in Yemen.
- zaire — Republic of, a former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- zakah — a tax, comprising percentages of personal income of every kind, levied as almsgiving for the relief of the poor: the third of the Pillars of Islam.
- zakat — a tax, comprising percentages of personal income of every kind, levied as almsgiving for the relief of the poor: the third of the Pillars of Islam.
- zaman — Albizia saman, a large tropical tree in the pea family.
- zambo — sambo.
- zamia — any of various plants of the genus Zamia, chiefly of tropical and subtropical America, having a short, tuberous stem and a crown of palmlike pinnate leaves.