10-letter words containing a, r, t, z
- ritualized — to practice ritualism.
- rose topaz — a rose-pink form of topaz produced by heating yellow-brown topaz
- salzgitter — a city in Lower Saxony, in central Germany, SE of Hanover.
- santa cruz — a city on the coast of California.
- satirizing — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
- spirantize — to change into or pronounce as a spirant.
- st-nazaire — seaport in NW France, at the mouth of the Loire: pop. 65,000
- stabilizer — a person or thing that stabilizes.
- star prize — The star prize in a competition is the most valuable prize.
- star-gazer — a person who stargazes, as an astronomer or astrologer.
- stargazing — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- stir-crazy — Informal. restless or frantic because of confinement, routine, etc.: I was stir-crazy after just two months of keeping house.
- strategize — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- strelitzia — any southern African perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Strelitzia, cultivated for its showy flowers: includes the bird-of-paradise flower: family Strelitziaceae
- suzerainty — the position or authority of a suzerain.
- tabularize — to tabulate.
- tamburitza — one of a family of mandolinlike stringed instruments of southern Slavic regions.
- tartrazine — Yellow No. 5.
- terza rima — an Italian form of iambic verse consisting of eleven-syllable lines arranged in tercets, the middle line of each tercet rhyming with the first and last lines of the following tercet.
- tetrazzini — Luisa [loo-ee-zah] /luˈi zɑ/ (Show IPA), 1874–1940, Italian operatic soprano.
- the azores — three groups of volcanic islands in the N Atlantic, since 1976 an autonomous region of Portugal. Capital: Ponta Delgada (on São Miguel). Pop: 241 762 (2001). Area: 2335 sq km (901 sq miles)
- the lizard — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
- thermalize — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which neutrons lose energy in a moderator and become thermal neutrons
- tokorozawa — a city in central Honshu, Japan, a suburb of Tokyo.
- trailblaze — to blaze a trail through (a forest, wilderness, or the like) for others to follow.
- traumatize — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- trivialize — to make trivial; cause to appear unimportant, trifling, etc.
- tyrannized — to exercise absolute power or control, especially cruelly or oppressively (often followed by over).
- tzarevitch — czarevitch
- virtualize — to create a virtual version of (a computer, operating system, data storage device, etc.), which is not itself an independent device but both works and appears to the user as a single, physical entity: A virtualized computer server can boost processing power and reduce costs.
- warrantize — to guarantee the security of (land) to a person
- waziristan — a mountainous region in NW Pakistan.
- weatherize — to make (a house or other building) secure against cold or stormy weather, as by adding insulation, siding, and storm windows.
- yottahertz — one septillion (10 24) hertz. Abbreviation: YHz.
- z particle — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.
- zero stage — a solid-propellant rocket attached to a liquid-propellant rocket to provide greater thrust at liftoff
- zero-rated — to exempt (merchandise or services) from value-added tax.
- zettahertz — one sextillion (10 21) hertz. Abbreviation: ZHz.
- zoanthropy — a mental disorder in which one believes oneself to be an animal.
- zootherapy — the use of therapeutic drugs derived from animals
- zygopteran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Zygoptera, comprising the damselflies.
- zythepsary — (rare) A brewery.