Z The letter Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter in the Latin Alphabet. In almost all dialects of English other than American English, the letter is named zed , reflecting its derivation from the Greek alphabetzeta . Other European languages use a similar form, e.g.
	Zabrze Zabrze is a city in southern Poland with 194,041 inhabitants. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodship, previously in Katowice Voivodship.
	Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor was an Military of the United States and the twelfth President of the United States. Taylor had a 40-year military career in the United States Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Seminole Wars before achieving fame while leading U.S.
	Zagreb Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia. The city's population is 782,908 . It is situated between the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountains and the northern bank of the Sava river at an elevation of 120metre above sea level, located at . Its favourable geographic position in the southwestern part of the Pannonian plain, which extends to the Alps, Dinaric Alps, Adriatic Sea and Pannonian plain regions, provides an excellent connection f
	Zaire Zaire was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between October 27, 1971, and May 17, 1997. Although it came into use in 1971, the name Zaire is often still used for the portion of the Congo controlled by Mobutu Sese Seko since 1965. This article addresses this subsequent usage.
	Zambezi The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean. The area of its drainage basin is 1 E12 m, slightly less than half that of the Nile. The 2,574 km long river has its source in Zambia and flows through Angola, along the border of Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, to Mozambique, where it empties into the Indian Ocean.
	Zambia Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in southern Africa. It borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania on the north-east, Malawi on the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola on the west.
	Zamia Zamia is a genus of cycad of the family Zamiaceae, containing around 50 species, native to North America, Central America and South America. Species occur as far north as Georgia in the United States to as far south as Bolivia. The genus comprises dioecious shrubs with aerial or subterranean circular stems, often superficially resembling Arecaceaes.
	Zamia pumila Zamia pumila, is a small, tough, woody cycad of the West Indies and Cuba. Zamia pumila was the first species described for the genus and hence is the type species for the genus Zamia and the family Zamiaceae. This cycad contains reddish seed Conifer cone with a distinct acuminate tip.
	Zamiaceae The Zamiaceae are a family of cycads that are superficially palm or fern-like. They are divided into two subfamilies with eight genera and about 150 species in the tropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, Australia and North America and South America. The Zamiaceae are perennial, evergreen, and dioecious.
	Zane Grey Zane Grey was best known as an author of popular adventure novels and pulp magazine that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West.
	Zantedeschia Zantedeschia is a genus of twenty-eight species of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa from South Africa north to Malawi. The name of the genus was given as a tribute to Italian botanist Giovanni Zantedeschi. Common names include arum lily, calla, and calla lily although it is neither a true lily, nor Arum or Calla.
	Zanthoxylum Zanthoxylum is a genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical areas worldwide. Common names include prickly-ash and hercules' club. The fruit of several species are used to make the spice Sichuan Pepper.
	Zanthoxylum clava-herculis Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, the Hercules' Club, pepperwood, Southern prickly ash, etc., is a spiny tree or shrub native to the southeastern United States. It grows to 10-17 m tall and has distinctive spined thick, corky lumps 2-3 cm long on the bark. The leaf are pinnately compound, 20-30 cm long with 7-19 leaflets, each leaflet 4-5 cm long.
	Zany DJ Zany, from The Netherlands, is one of the worlds leading Hardstyle DJs and Producers. He is best known for Science and Religion, which was also the main theme of Qlimax 2004, Pure, Sky High and Widowmaker.
	Zanzibar Zanzibar , as used today, is the collective name for two East African islands off mainland Tanzania: Unguja and Pemba, Tanzania. The capital of the islands, located on the island of Unguja, is also known as Zanzibar City. The city's old quarter, known as Stone Town, is a World Heritage Site.
	Zapodidae Jumping mice are a group of mouse-like rodents in North America and China. Although Muroidea in general appearance, these rodents are distinguished by their elongated hind limbs, and, typically, by the presence of four pairs of cheek-teeth in each jaw. There are five toes to all the feet, but the first in the fore-feet is rudimentary, and furnished with a flat nail.
	Zaragoza Zaragoza is the capital city of the Autonomous communities of Spain and former Kingdom of Aragon of Aragon in Spain, and is located on the river Ebro, and its Tributary the Huerva and Gllego, near the centre of the region, in a great valley with a variety of landscapes, ranging from desert to thick forest, meadows and mountains.
	Zayin Zayin is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician language, Aramaic language, Hebrew language , Syriac alphabet and Arabic alphabet . It represents a voiced alveolar fricative, International Phonetic Alphabet .
	Zealand Zealand is the largest island of Denmark. It is separated from Funen by the Great Belt and from Skne in Sweden by the Oresund. Zealand is connected to Funen by the Great Belt Bridge and to Sweden by the Oresund Bridge. The capital of Denmark, Copenhagen, is partly located on the eastern shore of Zealand and partly on Amager.
	Zeaxanthin Zeaxanthin is one of the two carotenoids contained within the retina. Within the central macula, zeaxanthin is the dominant component, whereas in the peripheral retina, lutein predominates. Lutein and zeaxanthin have identical chemical formulas and are isomers, but they are not stereoisomers.
	Zebra The Zebra is a part of the horse family, Equidae, native to central and southern Africa. They are most well known for their distinctive black and white stripes.
	Zebra crossing A zebra crossing is a type of pedestrian crossing used in many places around the world. The crossing is characterised by longitudinal stripes on the road, parallel to the flow of the traffic, alternately a light colour and a dark one. The stripes are typically 40 to 60 centimetres wide.
	Zebra Finch The Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia guttata is the most common and familiar estrildid finch of Central Australia and ranges over most of the continent, avoiding only the cool moist south and the tropical far north. Zebra Finches inhabit open steppes with scattered bushes and trees, but have adapted to human disturbances, taking advantage of human-made watering holes and large patches of deforested land.
	Zebra mussel The Zebra mussel is a bivalve mussel native to freshwater lakes of southeast Russia.
	Zebra-tailed lizard Zebra-tailed lizards are lizards of the genus Callisaurus in the reptile order Squamata. These lizards live in open desert with fairly hard-packed soil, scattered vegitation and/or scattered rocks, typically desert flats, washes and plains. They range from 2.5 to 4 in in length.
	Zebu Zebus , sometimes known as 'humped cattle', are better-adapted to tropics environments than other domestic cattle. Their scientific name was originally Bos indicus, but this name is now deemed invalid by ITIS, who classify the zebu under Bos taurus along with all other domestic cattle, and their aurochs ancestors, domesticated in India about 10,000 years ago.
	Zechariah Zechariah or Zecharya was a person in the Bible Old Testament and Judaism Tanakh. He was the author of the Book of Zechariah. He was a prophet of the two-tribe kingdom of Judah, and the eleventh of the twelve minor prophets. Like Ezekiel, he was of priestly extraction.
	ZED ZED was a sludge metal/groove metal band from Philladelphia, Pennsylvania. Very little is known of the band to date besides the fact that they broke up in the Spring/Summer of 1999 after completing their last tour that year.
	Zeidae The Zeidae are a family of large, showy, deep-bodied zeiform marine fish—the "true dory". Found in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean, the family contains just five species in two genus. All species are important and highly-regarded food fish supporting commercial fishery, and some—such as the John dory—are enjoyed in large public aquarium.
	Zen Zen is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism which strongly emphasizes the practice of moment-by-moment awareness and of 'seeing deeply into the nature of things' by direct experience. Zen emerged as a distinct school in China and spread to Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and, in modern times, the rest of the world.
	Zeno of Citium Zeno of Citium was a Hellenistic Greece philosopher from Citium, Cyprus. He was the son of a merchant and a student of Crates of Thebes, the most famous Cynics living at that time in Greece. Zeno was, himself, a merchant until the age of 42, when he started the Stoic school of philosophy.
	Zeolite Zeolites are minerals that have a porous structure. The term was originally coined in the 18th century by a Sweden mineralogist named Axel Fredrik Cronstedt who observed, upon rapidly heating a natural mineral, that the stones began to dance about as the water evaporated.
	Zeppelin A Zeppelin is a type of airship, more specifically a type of rigid airship pioneered by Germany Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century and based in part on an earlier design by David Schwarz . Due to the outstanding success of the Zeppelin design, the term zeppelin in casual use came to refer to all rigid airships.
	Zero Point ZERO.POINT is a science fiction television series in development that revolves around Teresa Harwell, a Quantum physics searching for zero-point energy and the Homelessness she believes has the keys to understanding it. Currently, its studio home is Awakened Media, based in Santa Monica, California.
	Zeus In Greek mythology, Zeus is the highest ranking God among the Twelve Olympians, the ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky father and Thunder#List of thunder gods. His attributes included thunder and the thunderbolt, the scepter, and the eagle.
	Zhou Dynasty The Zhou Dynasty
	Zidovudine Zidovudine or azidothymidine is an antiretroviral drug, the first one approved for treatment of HIV. It is also sold under the names Retrovir and Retrovis, and as an ingredient in Combivir and Trizivir. It is an analog of thymidine.
	Ziegfeld Follies The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway theatre in New York City from 1907 through 1931. egfeld Follies of 1914 at the New Amsterdam Theatre *Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 at the New Amsterdam Theatre *Ziegfeld Follies of 1916 at the New Amsterdam Theatre
	Ziggurat A ziggurat is a temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley and Iran, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
	Zimbabwe Zimbabwe , officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, and formerly known as the Republic of Rhodesia, is a landlocked country in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo River rivers. It borders South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west, Zambia to the northwest, and Mozambique to the east.
	Zinc Zinc is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
	Zinc oxide Zinc oxide is a chemical compound with formula ZnO. It is nearly solubility in water but soluble in acids or alkalis. It occurs as white hexagonal crystals or a white powder commonly known as zinc white. It remains white when exposed to hydrogen sulfide or ultraviolet light.
	Zinc sulfate Zinc sulfate is a colorless crystalline, water-soluble chemical compound. The hydrated form, ZnSO47H2O, the mineral goslarite, was historically known as "white vitriol" and can be prepared by reacting zinc with aqueous sulfuric acid. It is used to supply zinc in animal feeds, fertilizers, and agricultural sprays.
	Zinfandel Zinfandel, also known as Zin, in Europe known as Primitivo, is a red-skinned wine grape. It's also popular in California for its intense fruitiness and lush texture. Typically, Zinfandel tastes of bramble and fresh or fermented red berries. Vintners use Zinfandel grapes to produce a wide range of wine styles including sweet White Zinfandels, light-bodied reds reminiscent of Beaujolais nouveau, full bodied dry reds, sweet late harvest wine dessert wines, and port wines.
	Zingiber The genus Zingiber contains the true gingers, a set of plants with culinary value in many parts of the world. The most well-known is Ginger, garden ginger
	Zingiberaceae Zingiberaceae, or the Ginger family, is a taxon of perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes, comprising 47 genera and about 1000 species. Many species are important ornamental plants, spices, or medicinal plants. Important members of the family include ginger, turmeric, myoga, cardamom, and galangal.
	Zion Zion is a term that most often designates the land of Israel and its capital Jerusalem. The word is found in texts dating back almost three millennia. It originally referred to a specific mountain near Jerusalem, on which stood a Jebusite fortress of the same name that was conquered by David.
	Zion National Park Zion National Park is a United States National Park located in the Southwestern United States, near Springdale, Utah. A prominent feature in the 229-square mile park is Zion Canyon, 15 miles long and up to half a mile deep, cut through the reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone by the North Fork of the Virgin River.
	Zionism Zionism is a Jewish political movements that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, where Jewish nationhood can be said to have evolved somewhere between 1200 BCE and late Second Temple times, and where History of ancient Israel and Judah existed up to the 2nd century Common Era.
	ZIP Code A ZIP code is the postal code used by the United States Postal Service , which always writes ZIP with capital letters. ZIP is an acronym for the Zone Improvement Plan but was also meant to suggest that mail travels more efficiently when senders use it. The basic format consists of five numerical digits.
	Zipper A zipper is a device for temporarily joining two edges of fabric together. It is widely used in clothing, luggage and other bags, sporting goods and camping gear, and other textiles.
	Zippo A Zippo Lighter is a refillable, metal lighter manufactured by Zippo Manufacturing Company. They are frequently collectible and hundreds of different styles and designs have been made in the seven decades since their introduction. Zippo lighters are typically rectangle in design with a hinged flip-top lid.
	Zircon Zircon is a mineral belonging to the group of Silicate minerals. Its chemical formula is ZirconiumSiliconOxygen4. Hafnium is almost always present in quantities ranging from 1 to 4%. The crystal structure of zircon is tetragonal crystal class.
	Zirconium Zirconium is a chemical element in the modern periodic table that is assigned the symbol Zr and has the atomic number 40. A lustrous gray-white, strong transition metal that resembles titanium, zirconium is obtained chiefly from zircon and is very corrosion resistant.
	Zirconium dioxide Zirconium dioxide, sometimes known as zirconia, is a white crystalline oxide of zirconium. Its most naturally occurring form, with a monoclinic crystalline structure, is the rare mineral, baddeleyite. The high temperature Cubic crystal system crystalline form, called 'cubic zirconia', is rarely, if ever, found in nature, but is synthesized in various colours for use as a gemstone.
	Zither The zither is a musical string instrument, mainly used in folk music, most commonly in the German-speaking Alpine regions of Europe. Like many other string instruments, Acoustic Zither and Electric Zither forms exist; in the acoustic version, the strings are stretched across the length of the soundbox, and neither version has a neck.
	Ziziphus Ziziphus is a genus of about 40 species of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, distributed in the warm-temperate and subtropical regions throughout the world. The leaf are alternate, entire, with three prominent basal veins, and 2-7 cm long; some species are deciduous, others evergreen.
	Zoarces Zoarces is a genus of eelpouts in the Zoarcidae Family. Zoarces is also known as Macrozoarces. The members of this genus are Ovoviviparity, giving birth to live young. References *
	Zodiac The term zodiac denotes several places where a circle of twelve animals occurs. Indo-European people developed a zodiac of twelve signs associated with a yearly cycle and with constellations of stars that lie along the apparent path of the Sun across the heavens .
	Zodiacal light The zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, whitish glow seen in the night sky which appears to extend up from the vicinity of the sun along the ecliptic or zodiac. In mid-northern latitudes, the zodiacal light is best observed in the western sky in the spring after the evening twilight has completely disappeared, or in the eastern sky in the autumn just before the morning twilight appears.
	Zombie A zombie is an undead person in the Afro-Caribbean and Creole peoples spiritual belief system of Vodou. These Folklore zombies are humans who have had their Ti Bon Ange or soul stolen by supernatural means and Shaman, and are forced to work for their "zombie master" as uncomplaining slaves on isolated plantations.
	Zoning Zoning is a North American term for a system of land use regulation. The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one part of a community from another. Zoning regulations fall under the police power rights governments may exercise over real property.
	Zonotrichia Zonotrichia is a small genus of American sparrows. Four of the species are North American, but the Rufous-collared Sparrow breeds in highlands from the extreme southeast of Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, and on Hispaniola. The species are * White-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys
	Zoo zoological garden, zoological park, or zoo is an institution where mainly Wildlife and exotic animals are restricted within enclosures, bred and displayed to the public. The term zoological garden refers to the biology academic discipline zoology, which derives from Greek language ??? , and ????? .
	Zoo Keeper Zoo Keeper is an online puzzle game developed by Robot Communications that was later ported to the Nintendo DS by Japanese video game publisher Success. The game was then brought to American and European shores by Ignition Entertainment. In Japan, before the release for Nintendo DS, Success released this game for Game Boy Advance and PlayStation 2 with alternative name "Zooo".
	Zoology Zoology is the biology academic discipline which involves the study of animals. The word zoology comes from Greek language ???, zoo , and ?????, --logy .
	ZOOM ZOOM was an educational television show, created almost entirely by children, which aired on PBS from January of 1972 to February of 1978. A new version of the show, also on PBS, premiered in 1999 and ended production in 2005. Both versions were produced by WGBH-TV in Boston.
	ZOOm zOOm is an entertainment and lifestyle television channel by The Times Group. It was launched in September 2004. Some of the popular shows for this channel are "Just Pooja" with Pooja Bedi and Popcorn.
	Zoom lens A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens with the ability to vary its focal length, as opposed to a prime lens which has a fixed focal length. They are commonly used with still camera, video camera, and motion picture camera camera, some binoculars and telescopes, and other optical instruments.