9-letter words containing p, i, z, e
- panelized — composed of prefabricated sections of walls, floors, or roofs that can be assembled at the building site: a panelized house.
- passivize — If you can passivize a verb or clause, or if it can passivize, you can put the verb in the passive voice.
- 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.
- pedantize — to act as a pedant; to make pedantic comments
- pelletize — to make or form (concentrated ore) into pellets.
- peptonize — to subject (food) to an artificial, partial digestion by pepsin or pancreatic extract in order to aid digestion.
- periodize — to divide (a portion of time) into periods
- pforzheim — a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- phenazine — a yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 8 N 2 , used in organic synthesis chiefly in the manufacture of dyes.
- picturize — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pidginize — to develop (a language) into a pidgin.
- pillorize — to pillory (someone or something)
- pince-nez — a pair of glasses held on the face by a spring that grips the nose.
- pint-size — comparatively small in size: a pint-size typewriter.
- pizza-pie — a flat, open-faced baked pie of Italian origin, consisting of a thin layer of bread dough topped with spiced tomato sauce and cheese, often garnished with anchovies, sausage slices, mushrooms, etc.
- platinize — to coat or plate with metallic platinum.
- platonize — to follow or adopt the doctrines of Plato.
- pluralize — to express in the plural form; make plural: to pluralize a noun.
- plus size — an extra-large size category of clothing, especially for women.
- plus-size — an extra-large size category of clothing, especially for women.
- podsolize — to make into podsol.
- podzolize — to make into or form a podzol
- poeticize — to make (thoughts, feelings, etc.) poetic; express in poetry.
- polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- polarizer — a person or thing that polarizes.
- pollinize — pollinate.
- posterize — to humiliate (a sporting opponent) by performing a dramatic feat against them
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- potentize — to make more potent, esp. a drug
- powellize — to preserve (wood) by boiling it in a sugar solution, as done first by W Powell of Liverpool; also, to preserve (wood) by treating it with arsenic, as marketed by N. S. W. Powell Wood Process Ltd.
- preconize — to proclaim or commend publicly.
- 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
- prologize — to perform or introduce by means of a prologue
- promazine — a compound, C 17 H 20 N 2 S, used as a tranquilizer.
- prozymite — a person using leavened bread for the Eucharist
- publicize — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- rapturize — to go into ecstasies or raptures
- rebaptize — to baptize again
- skip zone — a region surrounding a broadcasting station that cannot receive transmissions either directly or by reflection off the ionosphere
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- supersize — extra-large
- synopsize — to make a synopsis of; summarize.
- syphilize — to inoculate with the syphilis virus as a means of curing or preventing the disease
- temporize — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- trapezial — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).