6-letter words containing z, e, a
- sazhen — an obsolete Russian measure of length equivalent to 7 feet or 2.1336 m
- sleaze — a contemptible or vulgar person.
- sleazo — a sleazy person
- sleazy — contemptibly low, mean, or disreputable: sleazy politics.
- spezia — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Ligurian Sea: naval base.
- suarez — Francisco [fran-sis-koh;; Spanish frahn-thees-kaw,, -sees-] /frænˈsɪs koʊ;; Spanish frɑnˈθis kɔ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), 1548–1617, Spanish theologian and philosopher.
- t-maze — a pathway shaped like the letter T through which an animal runs during learning experiments.
- teazel — to raise a nap on (cloth) with teasels; dress by means of teasels.
- teazle — to raise a nap on (cloth) with teasels; dress by means of teasels.
- upgaze — to gaze upwards
- valdez — an ice-free port in S Alaska, at N end of the Gulf of Alaska: S terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
- za-zen — meditation in a prescribed, cross-legged posture.
- zabeta — a tariff or tax
- zabrze — a city in SW Poland: formerly in Germany.
- zaffer — an artificial mixture, resembling smalt, containing cobalt oxide and, usually, silica, used to produce a blue color in glass and in ceramic glazes.
- zaffre — an artificial mixture, resembling smalt, containing cobalt oxide and, usually, silica, used to produce a blue color in glass and in ceramic glazes.
- zagged — Simple past tense and past participle of zag.
- zagreb — a republic in SE Europe: includes the historical regions of Dalmatia, Istria, and Slavonia; formerly a part of Yugoslavia. 21,835 sq. mi. (56,555 sq. km) Capital: Zagreb.
- zander — a freshwater pikeperch, Stizostedion (Lucioperca) lucioperca, of central Europe, valued as a food fish.
- zanier — ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.
- zanies — Plural form of zany.
- zapped — to kill or shoot.
- zapper — to kill or shoot.
- zarape — Alternative spelling of serape.
- zareba — (in the Sudan and adjoining regions) a protective enclosure, as of thorn bushes.
- zarnec — a sulphide of arsenic
- zealed — (obsolete) Full of zeal.
- zealot — a person who shows zeal.
- zeatin — a cytokinin occurring in corn, spinach, and peas.
- zebras — Plural form of zebra.
- zeeman — Pieter [pee-tuh r] /ˈpi tər/ (Show IPA), 1865–1943, Dutch physicist: Nobel prize 1902.
- zenana — the part of the house in which the women and girls of a family are secluded.
- zentai — Skintight garments that cover the entire body.
- zervan — the ancient Iranian god of time and fate.
- zethar — one of the seven eunuchs who served in the court of King Ahasuerus. Esther 1:10.
- zetta- — one sextillion; the factor 1021
- zeugma — the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.
- zidane — Zinedine (zinedin). born 1972, French footballer, known as Zizou; scored 31 goals in 108 games for France (1994–2006), including two in the 1998 World Cup final; sent off in the 2006 World Cup final; his club sides included Juventus and Real Madrid
- zonate — marked with zones, as of color, texture, or the like.
- zouave — (sometimes lowercase) one of a former body of infantry in the French army, composed originally of Algerians, distinguished for their dash, hardiness, and picturesque uniform.
- zymase — the complex of enzymes obtained from yeast, also occurring in bacteria and other organisms, that acts in alcoholic fermentation and other forms of glycolysis.