| zetetic | adj. | proceding by investigation (often used in contradistinction to pejorative view of the term “skeptic”) | ||
| zeugma | n. | use of a word to modify two other words either in two different senses or in an inappropriate (sometimes for humorous effect) fashion | rhetoric | |
| zoeal | adj. | of or related to one of the larval stages of certain crustaceans such as crabs | ||
| zone | n. | girdle, belt, cestus | ||
| zonulet | n. | little zone | archaic | |
| zugzwang | n. | a position in chess in which every move leads to a worse situation |
