8-letter words containing a, z, n
- romanize — to make Roman Catholic.
- salinize — to treat with salt or render saline.
- sanitize — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- sarrazin — buckwheat (defs 1–3).
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- simazine — a colorless crystalline selective herbicide, C 7 H 1 2 ClN 5 , used for season-long weed control in corn and other crops.
- spazzing — an awkward or clumsy person.
- spetsnaz — a Soviet intelligence force
- stanzaic — an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
- subzonal — located under a zona, esp under the zona of an ovum
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- szechuan — Sichuan.
- szechwan — Sichuan.
- taizhong — Taichung.
- tanizaki — Junichiro [joo-nee-chee-raw] /ˈdʒu niˈtʃi rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1886–1965, Japanese novelist.
- tanzania — a republic in E Africa formed in 1964 by the merger of the republic of Tanganyika and the former island sultanate of Zanzibar (including Pemba and adjacent small islands). 364,881 sq. mi. (945,037 sq. km). Capital: Dodoma.
- tetanize — to induce tetanus in (a muscle).
- thiazine — any of a class of compounds containing a ring composed of one atom each of sulfur and nitrogen and four atoms of carbon.
- topazine — like topaz
- triazine — any of a group of three compounds containing three nitrogen and three carbon atoms arranged in a six-membered ring and having the formula C 3 H 3 N 3 .
- trizonal — formed or arranged in three layers or zones
- tzarevna — a daughter of a czar.
- unamazed — not greatly surprised or astonished
- undazzle — to recover from a daze
- ungazing — not gazing
- unglazed — having a surface covered with a glaze; lustrous; smooth; glassy.
- ungrazed — (of pasture, etc) not grazed
- urbanize — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
- vanzetti — Bartolomeo [bahr-taw-law-me-aw] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1927, Italian anarchist, in U.S. after 1908.
- vernazza — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- vizament — a consultation
- vizcaino — Sebastián [Spanish se-vahs-tyahn] /Spanish ˌsɛ vɑsˈtyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1550?–1628? Spanish explorer in the Americas.
- waltzing — Present participle of waltz.
- war zone — (during wartime) a combat area in which the rights of neutrals are suspended, as such an area on the high seas, where ships flying a neutral flag are subject to attack.
- weizmann — Chaim [khahy-im] /ˈxaɪ ɪm/ (Show IPA), 1874–1952, Israeli chemist and Zionist leader, born in Russia: 1st president of Israel 1948–52.
- whizbang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- womanize — to make effeminate.
- yangzhou — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- yokozuna — A grand champion sumo wrestler.
- zaanstad — a port in the W Netherlands, in North Holland: formed (1974) from Zaandam, Koog a/d Zaan, Zaandijk, Wormerveer, Krommenie, Westzaan, and Assendelft; food and machinery industries. Pop: 139 000 (2003 est)
- zamenhof — Lazarus Ludwig (laˈzarus ˈludvik). 1859–1917, Polish oculist; invented Esperanto
- zamindar — (in British India) a landlord required to pay a land tax to the government.
- zampogna — an Italian bagpipe used in Christmas music
- zamyatin — Yevgenii Ivanovich (jɪvˈɡjenij ɪˈvanəvitʃ). 1884–1937, Russian novelist and writer, in Paris from 1931, whose works include satirical studies of provincial life in Russia and England, where he worked during World War I, and the dystopian novel We (1924)
- zangwill — Israel, 1865–1926, English novelist and playwright.
- zaniness — ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.
- zanzibar — an island off the E coast of Africa: with Pemba and adjacent small islands it formerly comprised a sultanate under British protection; became independent in 1963; now part of Tanzania. 640 sq. mi. (1658 sq. km).
- zealants — Plural form of zealant.
- zemindar — (in British India) a landlord required to pay a land tax to the government.
- zenithal — of or relating to the zenith; situated at or near the zenith.