8-letter words containing z, a, c
- hoactzin — hoatzin.
- jacuzzis — Plural form of jacuzzi.
- karadzic — Radovan [rah-duh-vahn] /ˈrɑ dəˌvɑn/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Bosnian Serb political leader, indicted as a war criminal 1995.
- kazachoc — a traditional Cossack dance
- kazachok — a lively, Slavic folk dance for a solo male dancer, marked especially by the prisiadka.
- laicized — Simple past tense and past participle of laicize.
- localize — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- macarize — To congratulate.
- mancozeb — A grayish-yellow pesticide.
- mechitza — a screen in a synagogue separating men and women
- metazoic — Of, or relating to the metazoa.
- mizrachi — a Zionist movement, founded in 1902, chiefly devoted to furthering the integration of Zionism and religious orthodoxy.
- ochozath — Ahuzzath.
- ochozias — Ahaziah.
- penzance — a seaport in SW Cornwall, in the SW extremity of England: resort.
- piacenza — a city in N Italy, on the Po River.
- racemize — to change or cause to change into a racemic mixture
- schantze — a pile of stones heaped to shelter soldiers from gunfire
- schmaltz — Informal. exaggerated sentimentalism, as in music or soap operas.
- schwartz — Delmore [del-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈdɛl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1913–1966, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- scuzzbag — a despicable or unethical person
- stanzaic — an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
- szechuan — Sichuan.
- szechwan — Sichuan.
- tea cozy — cozy (def 5).
- triazoic — hydrazoic.
- veracruz — a state in E Mexico, on the Gulf of Mexico. 27,759 sq. mi. (71,895 sq. km). Capital: Jalapa.
- vizcacha — a burrowing rodent, Lagostomus maximus, about the size of a groundhog, inhabiting the pampas of Paraguay and Argentina, allied to the chinchilla.
- vizcaino — Sebastián [Spanish se-vahs-tyahn] /Spanish ˌsɛ vɑsˈtyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1550?–1628? Spanish explorer in the Americas.
- vocalize — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- wazzocks — Plural form of wazzock.
- zealotic — In the manner of a zealot; zealous; fanatic.
- zincates — Plural form of zincate.
- 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.
- zodiacal — an imaginary belt of the heavens, extending about 8° on each side of the ecliptic, within which are the apparent paths of the sun, moon, and principal planets. It contains twelve constellations and hence twelve divisions called signs of the zodiac. Each division, however, because of the precession of the equinoxes, now contains the constellation west of the one from which it took its name. Compare sign of the zodiac.
- zoomancy — foreseeing the future through observing the actions of animals
- zwieback — a special egg bread made into rusks.