9-letter words starting with z
- zoospores — Plural form of zoospore.
- zoosporic — Having or pertaining to zoospores.
- zoosterol — (biochemistry) Any sterol found in animal tissue.
- zoot suit — a man's suit with baggy, tight-cuffed, sometimes high-waisted trousers and an oversized jacket with exaggeratedly broad, padded shoulders and wide lapels, often worn with suspenders and a long watch chain and first popularized in the early 1940s.
- zootechny — the science of breeding animals
- zootheism — the worship of animals as gods
- zootoxins — Plural form of zootoxin.
- zootrophy — the nourishment of animals
- zorbonaut — a person who engages in the activity of zorbing
- zoroaster — flourished 6th century b.c, Persian religious teacher.
- zorobabel — Zerubbabel.
- zsigmondy — Richard [rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1865–1929, German chemist, born in Austria: Nobel prize 1925.
- zucchetto — a small, round skullcap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics, a priest's being black, a bishop's violet, a cardinal's red, and the pope's white; calotte.
- zuckerman — Solly (ˈsɒlɪ), Baron. 1904–93, British zoologist, born in South Africa; chief scientific adviser (1964–71) to the British Government. His books include The Social Life of Monkeys (1932) and the autobiography From Apes to Warlords (1978)
- zugspitze — a mountain in S central Germany, on the Austrian border: highest peak of the Bavarian Alps and in Germany. 9718 feet (2962 meters).
- zugzwangs — Plural form of zugzwang.
- zulu time — Coordinated Universal Time
- zurvanism — a Zoroastrian heresy that developed during the late Achaemenian period according to which both Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu were offspring of Zurvan.
- zwanziger — a former silver coin of Germany or Austria worth twenty kreutzers
- zwiebacks — Plural form of zwieback.
- zwinglian — of or relating to Ulrich Zwingli or his doctrines, largely agreeing with those of Luther and offering a distinctive interpretation of the Lord's Supper.
- zygantrum — a part linking the vertebral segments of the body in snakes and some lizards and into which fits the zygosphene
- zygomatic — of, relating to, or situated near the zygoma.
- zygophore — (in certain fungi) any of several specialized branches of hyphae, bearing the isogametes that unite to produce a zygospore.
- zygophyte — a plant that reproduces by means of zygospores.
- zygosperm — (botany) A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. Zygosperms are found in certain orders of alg\u00e6 and fungi.
- zygospore — a cell formed by fusion of two similar gametes, as in certain algae and fungi.
- zymogenic — of or relating to a zymogen
- zymolysis — the digestive and fermentative action of enzymes.
- zymometer — an instrument for measuring the degree of fermentation.
- zymophyte — (biochemistry) A fermentation produced by bacteria, yeasts or similar micro-organisms.
- zymoscope — A zymometer.
- zyryenian — a member of a Uralic people of northeastern European Russia.