Sunday, 13 September 2015

OBSCURE WORDS Z

zamindar
n. - landowner. zamindari, n. land or jurisdiction of a zamindar.

zatetic
adj. - pondering, questioning

zeigarnik
n. - Psychology, tendency to remember an uncompleted rather than a
completed task.

zenana
n. - harem; system of segregating women in harems.

zenography
n. - study or description of planet Jupiter. zenographic(al), adj.

zeta
n. - sixth letter of Greek alphabet.

zetetic
adj. - asking; questioning

zeugma
n. - literary device of using word to modify two other words with only
one of which it is correctly used. zeugmatic, adj.

zibeline, zibelline
adj. - pertaining to sables.

Zigeuner
n. - 'gypsy'.

zingaro
n. - (pl -ri ) 'gypsy'.

zircon
n. - brownish or greyish mineral used as gem. zirconiferous, adj.

zither
n. - musical instrument of strings stretched over a horizontal
sounding board and plucked with a plectrum.

zizith
n. - tassels and fringes found on certain religious ceremonial garments

zoanthropy
n. - delusion of a person who believes himself changed into an animal.

zocle
n. - small stand or pedestal for a statue

zoea
n. - early larva of crab and other crustaceans. zoeal, adj.

zoetic
adj. - pertaining to life

zoic
adj. - showing traces of life; containing organic remains. zoism, n.
doctrine that life depends on a peculiar vital principle.

zoilism
n. - nagging criticism

Zollverein
n. - 'customs-union' as organized by Prussia in the 1830s.

zomotherapy
n. - medical treatment by raw meat or meat juice. zomotherapeutic, adj.

zonesthesia
n. - the feeling of wearing a tight girdle

zooerastia
n. - sexual intercourse with an animal

zoogamy
n. - sexual reproduction of animals. zoogenous, adj. originating in
animals. zoography, n. description of animals.

zooid
n. - organism resembling animal, especially asexually produced; sperm
cell. zooidal, adj.

zoolite, zoolith
n. - fossil animal.

zoometry
n. - measurement of animals. zoomimetic, adj. imitating an animal or
part of an animal. zoomorph, n. object in form of animal. zoomorphism,
n. representation of god as lower animal.

zoonic
adj. - pertaining to or derived from animals. zoonosis, n. disease
that can be communicated among animals or from animal to man.

zoopery
n. - experimenting on lower animals. zooperal, adj. zooperist, n.

zoophile
n. - lover of animals; plant pollinated by animals. zoophilia,
zoophilist, n. zoophilous, adj. zoophobia, n. dread of animals.

zoophorus, zophorus
n. - sculptured relief frieze with a continuous pattern of men or animals.

zoophyte
n. - plant-like animal, as coral, sea anemone, etc. zoophytal,
zoophytic, adj. zoophytology, n. study of such.

zooscopy
n. - hallucination of seeing animals. zooscopic, adj.

zootechny, zootechnics
n. - breeding and taming of animals. zootechnic, adj.

zootomy
n. - study of animal anatomy. zootomic(al), adj. zootomist, n.

zootrophy
n. - feeding of animals. zootrophic, adj.

zouave
n. - French-Algerian infantry soldier; woman's short jacket.

zwitterion
n. - ion charged both positively and negatively.

zygal
adj. - h-shaped

zygomancy
n. - fortune telling with weights

zygophyte
n. - plant with reproduction by union of two similar cells. zygospore,
n. spore formed by such union.

zygote
n. - cell formed by union of two gametes; fertilized egg. zygotic, adj.

zymase
n. - enzyme converting sugar to alcohol and carbon dioxide.

zymogenic
adj. - causing fermentation. zymogenous, adj.

zymology
n. - study of or treatise on fermentation. zymologic(al), adj. zymologist, n.

zymolysis
n. - action of enzymes.

zymoplastic
adj. - partaking in the production of enzymes.

zymosis
n. - fermentation; process resembling fermentation in development of
infectious disease.

zymotic
adj. - pertaining to fermentation; due to development of germs
entering body from outside; n. contagious or infectious disease.

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