4-letter words containing z, a
- raza — (used with a plural verb) Mexican Americans collectively.
- raze — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- razz — to deride; make fun of; tease.
- riza — a cover of gilt or silvered metal whose purpose is to protect a religious work of art or icon, leaving spaces for the hands and face of the subject to show through
- spaz — an awkward or clumsy person.
- taiz — a city in S Yemen.
- tzar — an emperor or king.
- wazz — (UK, slang) An act of urination, a piss or a leak; urine.
- wzca — West Zone Cricket Academy
- yazd — Yezd.
- zaar — Alternative form of zar.
- zach — a male given name, form of Zachary or Zachariah.
- zack — (Australia, obsolete) Sixpence.
- zafu — a round cushion used in Zen meditation. See also zabuton.
- zags — Plural form of zag.
- zail — (India) An administrative unit of two to forty villages during the British Raj in India.
- zain — (archaic) A horse of a dark colour with no lighter spots.
- zama — an ancient town in N Africa, SW of Carthage: the Romans defeated Hannibal near here in the final battle of the second Punic War, 202 b.c.
- zams — zero age main sequence
- zane — a male given name, form of John.
- zanu — Zimbabwe African National Union.
- zany — ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.
- zapp — Zero Assignment Parallel Processor. A virtual tree machine architecture in which a process tree is dynamically mapped onto a fixed, strongly connected network of processors communicating by message passing. The basic operation of each node is to apply a divide and conquer function which takes four arguments: (1) a function 'primitive' which takes a problem description (PD) and returns true if it can be solved without division, (2) a function 'solve' which takes a primitive PD and returns its solution, (3) a function 'divide' which takes a PD and returns a list of PDs of smaller problems and (4) a function 'combine' which returns the solution to a problem by combining a list of solutions of subproblems. Each node has a copy of the code and one is given the initial problem description. Task distribution is by process stealing in which a process constructs a descriptor for each subtask and idle (lightly loaded) processors can steal a descriptor from a physically connected neighbour.
- zaps — Plural form of zap.
- zapu — Zimbabwe African People's Union
- zara — former name of Zadar.
- zarf — (in the Levant) a holder, usually of ornamental metal, for a coffee cup without a handle.
- zari — A type of gold thread used decoratively on Indian clothing.
- zati — a type of macaque monkey of India and Sri Lanka with a crown of hair on its head
- zawn — (regional UK) 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.
- zayn — The letter \u0632 in the Arabic script.
- zeal — fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.
- zean — (medicine, archaic) A highly concentrated fluid extract of cornsilk used as a diuretic and urinary antiseptic.
- zeta — the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet (Z, ζ).
- zeya — a river in SE Siberian Russia, flowing S and SE to the Amur River. 800 miles (1287 km) long.
- zika — Also called Zika fever, Zika disease, Zika virus disease. an illness caused by a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus , typically characterized by mild fever, rash, and joint pain.
- zila — an administrative district in India
- zoan — Biblical name of Tanis.
- zoar — the city where Lot and his family took refuge during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Gen. 19:20–30.
- zoea — any of the free-swimming larva of certain crustaceans, as the crab, having rudimentary legs and a spiny carapace.
- zola — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1840–1902, French novelist.
- zona — A zone or band; a layer.
- zora — a female given name.
- zuma — Jacob (Gidleyihlekisa). born 1942, South African politician: Deputy President of South Africa (1999–2005); President of the African National Congress from 2007; President of South Africa from 2009
- zupa — a confederation of Slavic or Serbian villages
- zyga — Plural form of zygon.