5-letter words containing z
- muzzy — confused; muddled.
- nazca — of or relating to a pre-Incan culture of SW Peru, dating from c200 b.c., characterized by polychrome pottery and the employment of irrigation techniques in agriculture.
- nazir — (in Muslim countries) the title of any of various public officials.
- nazis — a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler and advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan supremacy, all these leading directly to World War II and the Holocaust.
- neeze — (intransitive, UK dialectal, or, archaic) To sneeze.
- nertz — insane; crazy.
- nizam — the title of the ruler of Hyderabad from the beginning of the 18th century to 1950.
- nozle — Obsolete form of nozzle.
- nudzh — to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
- nzcer — New Zealand Council for Educational Research
- nzrfu — New Zealand Rugby Football Union
- oozed — Simple past tense and past participle of ooze.
- oozes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ooze.
- orczy — Emmuska [em-moo sh-ko] /ˈɛm mʊʃ kɒ/ (Show IPA), Baroness, 1865–1947, English novelist, born in Hungary.
- ormuz — Strait of. Hormuz, Strait of.
- ouzel — dipper (def 4).
- ozark — a town in SE Alabama.
- ozawa — Seiji [sey-jee] /ˈseɪ dʒi/ (Show IPA), born 1935, Japanese conductor in the U.S.
- ozeki — a sumo wrestling champion
- ozmas — a festival resembling Christmas, celebrated at midwinter in the southern hemisphere
- ozone — a form of oxygen, O 3 , with a peculiar odor suggesting that of weak chlorine, produced when an electric spark or ultraviolet light is passed through air or oxygen. It is found in the atmosphere in minute quantities, especially after a thunderstorm, is a powerful oxidizing agent, and is thus biologically corrosive. In the upper atmosphere, it absorbs ultraviolet rays, thereby preventing them from reaching the surface of the earth. It is used for bleaching, sterilizing water, etc.
- ozzie — a male given name, form of Oswald.
- panza — Sancho, Sancho Panza.
- peize — to weigh
- 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.
- pizz. — pizzicato
- 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.
- pkzip — (tool) A file compression and archiver utility for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows from PKWARE, Inc.. PKZIP uses a variation on the sliding window compression algorithm. It comes with pkunzip and pklite and is available as shareware from most FTP archives in a self-expanding MS-DOS executable. Current versions as of 1999-10-07: PKZIP 2.60 GUI for Microsoft Windows 3.1x, Windows 9x, Windows NT; PKZIP 2.50 Command Line for Windows 9x NT; PKZIP 2.04g for MS-DOS; PKZIP 2.51 for Unix, (Linux, SPARC Solaris, Digital, HP-UX, IBM AIX and SCO Unix); PKZIP 2.50 for OS/2; PKZIP for Open VMS/VAX. A distribution in about 1995-06-22 claiming to be "PKZIP 3" was actually a Trojan horse which attempted to reformat the hard disk and delete all files on it.
- plaza — a public square or open space in a city or town.
- plotz — to collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion.
- plzen — a city in Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic.
- ponzi — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
- ponzu — a type of Japanese dipping sauce made from orange juice, sake, sugar, soy sauce, and red pepper
- prize — leverage.
- quizz — Archaic form of quiz.
- 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.
- ritzy — swanky; elegant; posh: a ritzy neighborhood; a ritzy hotel.
- rizal — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1861–96, Philippine patriot, novelist, poet, and physician.
- rnzaf — Royal New Zealand Air Force
- rodez — a department in S France. 3387 sq. mi. (8770 sq. km). Capital: Rodez.
- sadza — a southern African porridge
- scuzz — Also called scuzzball [skuhz-bawl] /ˈskʌzˌbɔl/ (Show IPA), scuzzbucket [skuhz-buhk-it] /ˈskʌzˌbʌk ɪt/ (Show IPA). a dirty, grimy, sordid, or repulsive person or thing.
- seaze — to seize
- seize — to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.