9-letter words containing z, a, b
- elizabeth — a city in NE New Jersey, on Newark Bay. Pop: 123 215 (2003 est)
- embrazure — Alternative form of embrasure.
- firozabad — a city in Uttar Pradesh state, N central India.
- freezable — Capable of being frozen; especially capable of use after subsequent thawing.
- garbanzos — Plural form of garbanzo.
- ghaziabad — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N central India, near New Delhi.
- globalize — to extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide: efforts to globalize the auto industry.
- grazeable — (of land) Suitable for grazing animals.
- hephzibah — the wife of Hezekiah and the mother of Manasseh. II Kings 21:1.
- hezbollah — a radical Shiʿite Muslim organization in Lebanon engaged in guerrilla warfare against Israel.
- ionizable — to separate or change into ions.
- jazz band — a band specializing in jazz, and consisting typically of trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, piano, double bass, and percussion.
- jazz club — jazz music venue
- labialize — to give a labial character to (a sound), for example, to round (a vowel).
- lazybones — a lazy person.
- marbleize — marble.
- mozarabic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Mozarabs: Mozarabic culture.
- outbrazen — to be more brazen or impudent than
- pizza box — [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
- razorable — able to be shaved
- razorback — a finback or rorqual.
- razorbill — a common auk, Alca torda, of the North Atlantic, having a thick laterally compressed bill with white markings
- razzberry — raspberry (def 4).
- rebaptize — to baptize again
- rhizobial — of or relating to rhizobium
- ribozymal — of or relating to ribozymes
- sabbatize — to keep the Sabbath.
- scuzzball — Also called scuzzball [skuhz-bawl] /ˈskʌzˌbɔl/ (Show IPA), scuzzbucket [skuhz-buhk-it] /ˈskʌzˌbʌk ɪt/ (Show IPA). a dirty, grimy, sordid, or repulsive person or thing.
- sitz bath — a chairlike bathtub in which the thighs and hips are immersed in warm water, usually as part of a therapeutic treatment.
- sitz-bath — a chairlike bathtub in which the thighs and hips are immersed in warm water, usually as part of a therapeutic treatment.
- sleazebag — a sleazy person; sleaze.
- stabilize — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- syllabize — to syllabify.
- unbaptize — to remove the effects of baptism
- urbanized — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
- verbalize — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- walbrzych — a city in SW Poland, in Silesia.
- wazirabad — Balkh.
- wałbrzych — an industrial city in SW Poland. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
- whiz-bang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whizzbang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- zabernism — (obsolete) The misuse or abuse of military authority; bullying.
- zambezian — a river in S Africa, flowing S and W from Zambia through E Angola and Zambia and then E along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the Indian Ocean. 1650 miles (2657 km) long.
- zamboanga — a seaport on SW Mindanao, in the S Philippines.
- zamboorak — a small swivelling cannon mounted on a camel's back, from where it is fired
- zanzibari — 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- zettabyte — 2 70 bytes; 1024 exabyte.