8-letter words containing r, a, z
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- subsizar — formerly, an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge who did not have to pay tuition fees but who instead helped in the kitchen or household of their college
- superzap — (tool, IBM) An IBM utility program used to quickly patch operating system or application program executable code in preference to editing the source code and recompiling. The SuperZAP program was a quick hack written by one IBM Engineer, possibly from IBM UK, in the late 1960s to directly fix executable files. He needed to fix a bug but it would have taken hours to rebuild the vast OS/360 executables. The S/360 architecture has an instruction ZAP (Zero and Add Packed) for packed decmial arithmetic, that sets the byte at a given address to a given value. Superzap used this to write data given as a string of hex digits to a given location in an executable file in a matter of seconds. Soon the IBM development labs were releasing all Programming Temporary Fixes (PTFs) to OS/360 in this form. OS/360 included a version called IMASPZAP or AMASPZAP which persisted through MVS, MVS/SP, MVS/XA, OS/390 and probably still remains in z/OS, the distant descendent of OS/360.
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- svizzera — Italian name of Switzerland.
- terrazzo — a mosaic flooring or paving composed of chips of broken stone, usually marble, and cement, polished when in place.
- terzetta — a set of three rhyming lines
- trapezia — 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).
- 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 .
- triazoic — hydrazoic.
- triazole — any of a group of four compounds containing three nitrogen and two carbon atoms arranged in a five-membered ring and having the formula C 2 H 3 N 3 .
- tristeza — a disease of certain citrus trees, characterized by yellowed leaves, wilting, and root destruction, caused by a virus.
- trizonal — formed or arranged in three layers or zones
- tsaritza — a czarina.
- tzarevna — a daughter of a czar.
- tzaritza — a czarina.
- ungrazed — (of pasture, etc) not grazed
- urbanize — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
- valorize — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- vaporize — to cause to change into vapor.
- velarize — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- veracruz — a state in E Mexico, on the Gulf of Mexico. 27,759 sq. mi. (71,895 sq. km). Capital: Jalapa.
- 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.
- waltzers — Plural form of waltzer.
- 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.
- warszawa — Polish name of Warsaw.
- wizardly — of, like, or befitting a wizard.
- wizardry — the art, skill, or accomplishments of a wizard.
- yahrzeit — the anniversary of the death of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse, observed by lighting a memorial lamp or candle the night before and reciting the Kaddish at the evening service of the day before and at the morning and afternoon services of the day itself.
- yarovize — to vernalize.
- zaharias — Mildred Didrikson [did-rik-suh n] /ˈdɪd rɪk sən/ (Show IPA), ("Babe") 1914–56, U.S. track-and-field athlete and golfer.
- zamindar — (in British India) a landlord required to pay a land tax to the government.
- 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).
- zaragoza — Spanish name of Saragossa.
- zaratite — a mineral, hydrated basic nickel carbonate, occurring in the form of emerald-green incrustations on chromite and magnetite.
- zarzuela — a Spanish opera having spoken dialogue and often a satirically treated, topical theme.
- zastruga — sastruga.
- zastrugi — sastruga.
- zealotry — undue or excessive zeal; fanaticism.
- zelatrix — a nun who monitors the behaviour of younger nuns
- zemindar — (in British India) a landlord required to pay a land tax to the government.
- ziggurat — (among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces.
- zikkurat — Alternative spelling of ziggurat.
- zipporah — the daughter of Jethro and the wife of Moses. Ex. 2:21.
- zircaloy — any of various alloys containing about 98% zirconium, 1.5% tin, etc., that are resistant to corrosion and high temperatures and are used to contain fuel in nuclear reactors, etc.
- zirconia — Chemistry. a white, heavy, amorphous, odorless and tasteless, infusible, water-insoluble powder, ZrO 2 , used chiefly as a pigment for paints, an abrasive, and in the manufacture of refractory crucibles.
- ziusudra — a legendary Sumerian king who built a boat in which to escape the Deluge.
- zoiatria — veterinary surgery
- zoograft — animal tissue grafted to a human body, as in transplants, etc
- zoolatry — the worship of or excessive attention to animals.