12-letter words starting with z
- zalambdodont — (zoology) Having teeth with two ridges that meet at an angle, forming the letter lambda.
- zantedeschia — (botany) Any of the genus Zantedeschia of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa.
- zebra mussel — a small striped freshwater mussel from NE Europe, Dreissena polymorpha: introduced to the Great Lakes in the 1980s and deleteriously affecting water pipes, other fauna, etc.
- zebulon pike — James Albert, 1913–69, U.S. Protestant Episcopal clergyman, lawyer, and author.
- zen buddhism — Zen.
- zen buddhist — a follower or adherent of Zen Buddhism
- zeno of elea — c490–c430 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- zephyr cloth — a lightweight worsted cloth.
- zephyranthes — any of various bulbous plants belonging to the genus Zephyranthes, of the amaryllis family, as Z. grandiflora, having showy rose or pink flowers.
- zeptoseconds — Plural form of zeptosecond.
- zero defects — quality control that strives for a perfect production process, resulting in flawless products.
- zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.
- zero grazing — a type of dairy farming in which the cattle are fed with cut grass
- zero tillage — no-tillage.
- zero-divisor — a nonzero element of a ring such that its product with some other nonzero element of the ring equals zero.
- zhang zuolin — Chang Tso-lin.
- zielona gora — a city in W Poland.
- zillionaires — Plural form of zillionaire.
- zilog z80000 — (processor) A later version of the Zilog Z8000, expanded to 32 bits internally and with a 6-stage pipeline.
- zimmer frame — A Zimmer frame or a Zimmer is a frame that old or ill people sometimes use to help them walk.
- zinc sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.
- zinc sulfide — a white to yellow, crystalline powder, ZnS, soluble in acids, insoluble in water, occurring naturally as wurtzite and sphalerite: used as a pigment and as a phosphor on x-ray and television screens.
- zinc-plating — the process of covering something with a layer or coating of zinc
- zip fastener — a zipper.
- zone defence — a tactic whereby each player in a team defends a particular area of the pitch or field
- zone defense — a method of defense, especially in basketball and football, in which each member of the defensive team guards a specified portion of the playing area.
- zone melting — a process of purifying any of various metals and other materials, as germanium or silicon, by passing it in bar form through an induction coil.
- zone of fire — the area within which a unit is prepared to place its fire.
- zone therapy — a type of massage which works on the theory that specific parts of the foot or palm of the hand are associated with different parts of the body, and that massaging the feet or hands will give the patient relief from disorders in the related part of the body
- zoochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the constituents of the animal body; animal chemistry.
- zoochlorella — any of various symbiotic green algae in the cytoplasm of certain freshwater invertebrates, as stentors and hydras.
- zoogeography — the science dealing with the geographical distribution of animals.
- zoologically — In a zoologic manner.
- zoomastigote — A zooflagellate: a heterotrophic flagellate of the phylum Zoomastigophora.
- zoophytology — the branch of zoology concerning zoophytes
- zoosemiotics — the study of the sounds and signals used in animal communication, as song in birds or tail-wagging in dogs.
- zoosporangia — Plural form of zoosporangium.
- zootechnical — of or relating to zootechny
- zooxanthella — any of various symbiotic yellow-green or yellow–brown algae in the cytoplasm of certain radiolarians and marine invertebrates.
- zorn's lemma — a theorem of set theory that if every totally ordered subset of a nonempty partially ordered set has an upper bound, then there is an element in the set such that the set contains no element greater than the specified given element.
- zuid-holland — South Holland
- zuse, konrad — Konrad Zuse
- zwitterionic — an ion with both a positive and a negative charge.
- zygapophysis — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.
- zymotechnics — the art of managing the fermentation process
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