ZionismJewish nationalism, the movement which supported first the establishment of a Jewish homeland and now supports the continuation of Israel as a Jewish state.
ZioniteA member of any of various Protestant Christian religious sects, the most notable of which were the Zionites of Wuppertal and the Christ Community Church of Zion, Illinois.
zipeprolA centrally-acting cough suppressant which acts as a local anaesthetic and may also have mucolytic, antihistamine-like and anticholinergic properties.
ZipfianOf or relating to George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), American linguist who studied statistical occurrences in different languages and proposed the Zipfian distribution, codified as Zipf's Law, one of a family of discrete power law probability distributions.
zipgunAn improvised single-shot pistol-sized weapon that uses a spring or elastic to propel a bullet to its target.
ziphiidOf, pertaining to, or being a beaked whale.
ziphiineAny of the beaked whales of the subfamily Ziphiinae, including the extant Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi), Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris), and other extinct species.
zippeiteA hydrous potassium uranium sulfate mineral with chemical formula K₄(UO₂)₆(SO₄)₃(OH)₁₀·4(H₂O), forming yellow to reddish-brown monoclinic-prismatic crystals with perfect cleavage and formerly used in the manufacture of paint.
ziprasidoneAn antipsychotic drug used in the treatment of schizophrenia etc.
zipsA region of north-eastern Slovakia, Spiš region
ZipserA member of the Germanic-speaking ethnic group which developed in the Zips region of Upper Hungary (now Slovakia) beginning in the 13th century, and subsequently settled also in northern Romani, Bukovina, Maramureș, Transylvania, and ultimately Germany.
zircoloyAn alloy of zirconium with tin, chromium and nickel, widely used, especially in the nuclear power industry, for its heat- and corrosion-resistant properties
zirconA mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or grey colour and consisting of silica and zirconia.
zirconationTreatment or reaction with zirconia or any zirconium compound
zirconiaThe oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummond light.
zirconiumA chemical element (symbol Zr) with an atomic number of 40, a strong, lustrous, grey-white transition metal mainly used as a refractory and opacifier.
zirconoceneAny of a class of metallocenes, analogous to ferrocene, containing a zirconium atom.
zirconoidA double eight-sided pyramid, a form common with tetragonal crystals.
zirconoliteThe mineral calcium zirconium titanate.
ZiridA member of a Sanhaja Berber dynasty, from what is now Algeria, that ruled the central Maghreb from 972 to 1014 and Ifriqiya (eastern Maghreb) from 972 to 1148.
zitherA musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings placed on a horizontal surface, played with a plectrum or fingertips.