metallic chemical element, 1808, coined in Modern Latin by German chemist and mineralogist Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817) in 1789; so called because it was found in zircon.
zip
zipper
Zippo
zippy
zircon
zirconium
zit
zither
ziti
zloty
zoa
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