9-letter words containing r, a, z, e
- vaporizer — a person or thing that vaporizes.
- varisized — of several or various sizes: varisized patterns on a fabric.
- velarized — pronounced with velar coarticulation.
- verbalize — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- vernalize — to shorten the growth period of (a plant) by chilling or other special treatment of it, its seeds, or its bulbs.
- verrazano — Giovanni da [jaw-vahn-nee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), c1480–1527? Italian navigator and explorer.
- vizierate — (formerly) a high official in certain Muslim countries and caliphates, especially a minister of state. Compare grand vizier.
- vulgarize — to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase: to vulgarize standards of behavior.
- waterzooi — A type of Flemish stew, traditionally made with fish.
- womanizer — a philanderer.
- year zero — the beginning (1975) of the period during which Cambodia was under the control of the Khmer Rouge
- zabernism — (obsolete) The misuse or abuse of military authority; bullying.
- zarzuelas — Plural form of zarzuela.
- zebrafish — a small, slender freshwater fish, Brachydanio rerio, having luminous bluish-black and silvery-gold horizontal stripes: popular in home aquariums.
- zebrawood — any of several trees, especially Connarus guianensis, of tropical America, yielding a striped, hard wood used for making furniture.
- zechariah — a Minor Prophet of the 6th century b.c.
- zeelander — a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1041 sq. mi. (2695 sq. km). Capital: Middelburg.
- zemindary — zamindari.
- zephyrean — of, relating to, or like a zephyr; full of or containing light breezes.
- zephyrian — of, relating to, or like a zephyr; full of or containing light breezes.
- zero-base — Also, zero-based. without reference to a base figure or to previous practice; according to present needs only, as opposed to a percentage increase or decrease of previous figures: zero-base planning; zero-base inventory.
- zero-rate — to exempt (merchandise or services) from value-added tax.
- zervanism — a Zoroastrian heresy that developed during the late Achaemenian period according to which both Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu were offspring of Zurvan.
- zigzagger — a person or thing that zigzags.
- zoroaster — flourished 6th century b.c, Persian religious teacher.
- zorobabel — Zerubbabel.
- zuckerman — Solly (ˈsɒlɪ), Baron. 1904–93, British zoologist, born in South Africa; chief scientific adviser (1964–71) to the British Government. His books include The Social Life of Monkeys (1932) and the autobiography From Apes to Warlords (1978)
- zwanziger — a former silver coin of Germany or Austria worth twenty kreutzers
- zyryenian — a member of a Uralic people of northeastern European Russia.