9-letter words containing a, r, e, z
- jaz drive — (hardware, storage) Iomega Corporation's drive which takes removable one or two gigabyte disk cartridges which contain conventional hard disks. Internal and external drives are available claiming an average transfer rate of 330 megabytes per minute - though that is dependent on the SCSI adapter, the parallel port adapter is unlikely to reach anything like this speed. The Jaz drive was the successor to the company's more establistablished Zip Drive.
- lanzarote — the most easterly of the Canary Islands; mountainous, with a volcanic landscape; tourism, fishing. Pop: 109 942 (2002 est). Area: 795 sq km (307 sq miles)
- lazarette — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
- lazaretto — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
- lazzarone — One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; beggars.
- legalizer — That which makes legal.
- linearize — to make linear; give linear form to.
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- lorazepam — a benzodiazepine drug, C 15 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly in the management of acute anxiety and for insomnia.
- magaziner — Someone who writes for a magazine.
- marbleize — marble.
- marketize — (economics, management) To convert to management by open-market principles.
- marmalize — to beat soundly or defeat utterly; thrash
- marmarize — to turn (limestone) into marble
- martyrize — to make a martyr of: The ancient Romans martyrized many Christians.
- matronize — to cause to become matronly; cause to act as, or fulfill the role of, matron.
- maximizer — to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
- megahertz — a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second. Abbreviation: MHz.
- mirandize — (sometimes lowercase) Informal. to advise (a person being arrested) of his or her rights under the Miranda ruling.
- moralized — Simple past tense and past participle of moralize.
- moralizer — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- moralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moralize.
- mortalize — (transitive) To make mortal.
- narcotize — to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- nectarize — to mix or saturate with nectar.
- normalize — to make normal.
- normanize — to make or become Norman in character, style, customs, etc
- notarized — Simple past tense and past participle of notarize.
- notarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of notarize.
- operatize — to turn (a play, novel, etc) into an opera
- organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- organizer — a person who organizes, especially one who forms and organizes a group.
- organizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of organize.
- organzine — silk that has been additionally twisted in opposite directions, used warpwise in weaving silk fabrics.
- ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostrasize — Misspelling of ostracize.
- outbrazen — to be more brazen or impudent than
- overglaze — a color or glaze applied to an existing glaze.
- overgraze — to graze (land) to excess.
- paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
- patronize — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pauperize — to make a pauper of: His extravagance pauperized him.
- pearlized — resembling or made to resemble mother-of-pearl; iridescent: pearlized buttons.
- petahertz — one quadrillion (10 15) hertz. Abbreviation: PHz.
- pluralize — to express in the plural form; make plural: to pluralize a noun.
- polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- polarizer — a person or thing that polarizes.
- prelatize — to advocate or bring under the authority of prelacy
- privatize — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- prize day — a day when prizes are rewarded to pupils who have produced a very high standard of work