| YWCA |
abbreviation of "Young Women's Christian Association." |
| YWHA |
abbreviation of "Young Women's Hebrew Association." |
| z |
the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. [3 definitions] |
| Zagreb |
the capital of Croatia. |
| Zaire |
a central African country from 1971 to 1997, now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2 definitions] |
| zaire |
the chief monetary unit of Zaire, equaling one hundred makuta. |
| Zakynthos |
an island belonging to Greece, the third largest in the Ionian Sea. |
| Zambia |
a south central African country, south of Zaire and east of Angola; formerly Northern Rhodesia. |
| zany |
crazily silly or comical. [3 definitions] |
| zap |
(informal) to kill, strike, destroy, or smash suddenly. [4 definitions] |
| Zarathustra |
Zoroaster. |
| zarf |
an ornamental coffee cup holder used in the Middle East. |
| zayin |
the name of the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. |
| zeal |
intense enthusiasm for a person, ideal, cause, or the like. |
| zealot |
a person who is excessively and often intolerantly zealous, esp. about a cause or religious faith; fanatic. |
| zealous |
characterized by, showing, or filled with an intense enthusiasm, as toward a cause, purpose, or activity. |
| zebec |
variant of xebec. |
| zebra |
any of various horselike mammals, native to Africa, that have black and white or dark brown stripes on a whitish body. |
| zebra crossing |
(chiefly British) a painted pathway of black and white stripes across a road that indicates where pedestrians may cross safely. |
| zebrafish |
a small freshwater tropical fish that has zebralike stripes and is often kept in aquariums. |
| zebu |
a domesticated oxlike animal, native to Asia, that has a large hump over its shoulders and loose, fleshy skin at its throat. |