6-letter words containing z
- paczki — a traditional Polish doughnut, filled with jam or another sweet filling and covered with powdered sugar or icing.
- panzer — (especially in the German army) armored: a panzer unit.
- patzer — a casual, amateurish chess player.
- pazazz — pizazz.
- peretz — I(saac) L(oeb) or Yitzchok Leibush [yits-khawk ley-boo sh] /ˈyɪts xɔk ˈleɪ bʊʃ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1915, Polish author: writer of plays, poems, and short stories in Yiddish.
- perutz — Max Ferdinand, 1914–2002, English chemist, born in Austria: Nobel prize 1962.
- piazza — an open square or public place in a city or town, especially in Italy.
- piazzi — Giuseppe, 1746–1826, Italian astronomer.
- piezo- — pressure
- pinzon — Martín Alonzo [mahr-teen ah-lawn-thaw] /mɑrˈtin ɑˈlɔn θɔ/ (Show IPA), c1440–93? and his brother, Vicente Yáñez [bee-then-te yah-nyeth] /biˈθɛn tɛ ˈyɑ nyɛθ/ (Show IPA) c1460–1524?, Spanish navigators with Christopher Columbus.
- piozzi — Hester Lynch, Thrale, Hester Lynch.
- pizazz — energy; vitality; vigor.
- pizzle — the penis of an animal, especially a bull.
- podzol — spodosol.
- poznan — a city in W Poland, on the Warta River.
- prized — pry2 .
- prizer — a competitor for a prize.
- prozac — Prozac is a drug that is used to treat people who are suffering from depression.
- puzzle — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
- qazvin — a city in NW Iran, NW of Teheran: capital of Persia in the 16th century.
- quantz — Johann Joachim [yoh-hahn yoh-ah-khim] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm/ (Show IPA), 1697–1773, German flutist and composer: teacher of Frederick the Great.
- quartz — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quazzy — unwell
- queazy — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- quezal — quetzal
- quezon — Maˈnuel Luˈis (mɑnˈwɛl luˈis ) ; mänwelˈ lo̅oēsˈ) 1878-1944; Philippine statesman: 1st president of the Philippines (1935-44)
- quinze — An old French card game of Spanish origin, players attempting to make fifteen points.
- quizzy — Odd; eccentric.
- razeed — a ship, especially a warship, reduced in height by the removal of the upper deck.
- razzed — to deride; make fun of; tease.
- razzia — a plundering raid.
- razzie — any of several gold-plated ornamental raspberries awarded annually in the United States by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation for films or acting performances in films considered to be the worst of the year
- rebozo — a long woven scarf, often of fine material, worn over the head and shoulders by Spanish and Mexican women.
- resize — to change the size of (something) to make it more suitable, etc
- reszke — Édouard de [French ey-dwar duh] /French eɪˈdwar də/ (Show IPA), 1853–1917, Polish operatic bass.
- rezero — to reset to zero
- rezone — to reclassify (a property, neighborhood, etc.) as belonging to a different zone or being subject to different zoning restrictions.
- rhizic — of or relating to the root of a mathematical equation
- rhizo- — root
- ribozo — rebozo.
- rienzi — Cola di [kaw-lah dee] /ˈkɔ lɑ di/ (Show IPA), (Nicholas Gabrini) 1313?–54, Roman orator and tribune.
- rinzai — a Zen Buddhist school of Japan, characterized by the use of koans to lead to moments of insight and enlightenment
- rizard — a redcurrant
- rizzar — to dry or cure (meat, fish, etc., especially haddock) in the sun.
- rizzio — David [dah-veed] /ˈdɑ vid/ (Show IPA), 1533?–66, Italian musician: private foreign secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots 1564–66.
- rizzor — to dry or sun-dry
- roszak — Theodore, 1907–81, U.S. sculptor, born in Poland.
- rozzer — a policeman.
- ryazan — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Moscow.
- sanzar — South African, New Zealand, and Australian Rugby: an agreement between the rugby unions of these nations under which various competitions are held