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- English Word Zigzagging Definition of Zigzag
- English Word Zigzaggy Definition Having sharp turns.
- English Word Zilla Definition A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the Arabs.
- English Word Zillah Definition A district or local division, as of a province.
- English Word Zimb Definition A large, venomous, two-winged fly, native of Abyssinia. It is allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to cattle.
- English Word Ziment-water Definition A kind of water found in copper mines; water impregnated with copper.
- English Word Zinc Definition An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9.
- English Word Zinc Definition To coat with zinc; to galvanize.
- English Word Zincane Definition Zinc chloride.
- English Word Zinced Definition of Zinc
- English Word Zincic Definition Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zinc; zincous.
- English Word Zincide Definition A binary compound of zinc.
- English Word Zinciferous Definition Containing or affording zinc.
- English Word Zincification Definition The act or process of applying zinc; the condition of being zincified, or covered with zinc; galvanization.
- English Word Zincify Definition To coat or impregnate with zinc.
- English Word Zincing Definition The act or process of applying zinc; galvanization.
- English Word Zincing Definition of Zinc
- English Word Zincite Definition Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; -- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.
- English Word Zincked Definition of Zinc
- English Word Zincking Definition of Zinc