9-letter words containing d, z
- sforzando — to be played with strong initial attack
- smorzando — fading away; dying out (a musical direction).
- sodomized — to subject to sodomy; commit sodomy upon.
- sodomizes — to subject to sodomy; commit sodomy upon.
- subsidize — to furnish or aid with a subsidy.
- swaziland — a kingdom in SE Africa between S Mozambique and the E Republic of South Africa: formerly a British protectorate. 6704 sq. mi. (17,363 sq. km). Capital: Mbabane.
- tanalized — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- tenderize — to make (meat) tender, as by pounding or by a chemical process or treatment.
- trad jazz — a kind of jazz based on the jazz that was played in the 1920s
- tragedize — to make tragic; imbue with the aspects of tragedy: a story tragedized by calamity and loss of hope.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- trazodone — a white crystalline powder, C 19 H 22 ClN 5 O, used in the treatment of major depression disorders.
- trebizond — a medieval empire in NE Asia Minor 1204–1461.
- tzaddikim — zaddik.
- undersize — undersized.
- uniodized — to treat, impregnate, or affect with iodine or an iodide.
- unionized — to form into a union.
- unmuzzled — to remove a muzzle from (a dog, cat, etc.).
- unpuzzled — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
- unrazored — unshaven
- urbanized — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
- vandalize — to destroy or deface by vandalism: Someone vandalized the museum during the night.
- varisized — of several or various sizes: varisized patterns on a fabric.
- velarized — pronounced with velar coarticulation.
- waddenzee — a shallow inlet of the North Sea between the N coast of the Netherlands and the West Frisian Islands: outer section of the former Zuider Zee. About 3861 sq. mi. (10,000 sq. km).
- wazirabad — Balkh.
- whizz-kid — If you refer to a young person as a whizz-kid, you mean that they have achieved success at a young age because they are very clever and very good at something, especially making money.
- wizarding — Present participle of wizard.
- womanized — to make effeminate.
- zamindari — (in British India) the system of landholding and tax collection by zamindars.
- zamindars — Plural form of zamindar.
- zantewood — Fustic (tree).
- zapateado — a Spanish dance for a solo performer, marked by rhythmic tapping of the heels.
- zebrawood — any of several trees, especially Connarus guianensis, of tropical America, yielding a striped, hard wood used for making furniture.
- zeelander — a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1041 sq. mi. (2695 sq. km). Capital: Middelburg.
- zemindary — zamindari.
- zigzagged — a line, course, or progression characterized by sharp turns first to one side and then to the other.
- zinc dust — zinc in powder form which is obtained by grinding or processing; used as a paint and deoxidizing agent
- zinfandel — a black vinifera grape, grown in California.
- zip drive — (hardware, storage) A disk drive from Iomega Corporation which takes removable hard disks storig 100 to 750 megabytes. Both internal and external drives are manufactured, making the drive suitable for backup, mass storage or for moving files between computers. Software is included to help with file organisation. The internal SCSI model offers up to 60 MB / minute transfer rate. The Zip drive was awarded Byte's Readers' Hardware Choice Award 1996. It was superceded by the Jaz drive which takes one gigbyte disks.
- zola budd — a minibus taxi
- zombified — Simple past tense and past participle of zombify.
- zsigmondy — Richard [rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1865–1929, German chemist, born in Austria: Nobel prize 1925.