zaireThe unit of currency of Zaire from 1967 to 1998.
ZaireanA person from Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo)
ZaireanizationA political process in Zaire in the 1960s and 1970s, aiming to rid the country of the influences of colonialism and Western culture by renaming cities, banning Western clothing, etc.
ZakarpatyeCarpathian Ruthenia, a historic region in the Carpathian Mountains in the west of Ukraine, eastern Slovakia, southeastern Poland, and northwestern Romania.
zakatAlmsgiving, usually in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property which is then used for charitable purposes; the third of the five pillars of Islam.
zakatchiA tax collector in what is now Uzbekistan.
ZakharA male given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
zakharoviteA silicate mineral of sodium and manganese, yellow in colour with a pearly lustre.
ZakharyA transliteration of the Russian male given name Заха́рий (Zaxárij).
ZakhoA city in Iraq, a few kilometers from the Turkish border.
zalcitabineA drug C₉H₁₃N₃O₃ which inhibits the replication of HIV and is formerly used in the treatment of AIDS, especially in combination with zidovudine. It is a synthetic analog of a pyrimidine nucleoside, acting as a reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
zaleplonA sedative hypnotic drug of the pyrazolopyrimidine class, mainly used to treat insomnia, rare among such drugs in having been found not to cause an increase in road traffic accidents.
zalgoIn full Zalgo text: digital text to which random Unicode diacritics have been copiously applied, obscuring the text, often protruding out of expected text boundaries, and imparting a "cursed" feeling.
ZambalesA province of Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines. Capital: Iba. Largest city: Olongapo City.
ZambesiA river in Southern Africa that has its source in Zambia and flows into the Indian Ocean.
ZambesiaA region of southern Africa inhabited by the Zambesi peoples.
ZambeziA river in Southern Africa, flowing southwestwards from Zambia through east Angola and then east along Zambia's border with Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
ZamboanguitaA municipality of Negros Oriental, Philippines.
zambombaA Spanish friction drum, consisting of a ceramic pot with a skin and a pole in the middle. To play it, the stick is rubbed to make a deep sound
zamboniAn ice resurfacing machine used to groom skating rinks, especially for professional use.
zamboniniteA discredited mineral species, a mixture of fluorite and sellaite.
zamboorakA light swivelling gun, traditionally mounted on, and fired from, the back of a camel
zamindarAn Indian landowner who collected local taxes and paid them to the British government.
zamindariIn British India, a system used to collect revenues from the ryots (cultivators of agricultural land) indirectly through the zamindars, as opposed to ryotwari, where revenues were collected directly.