9-letter words containing z, a, c
- mechitzah — mehitzah.
- moctezuma — Montezuma II.
- mozarabic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Mozarabs: Mozarabic culture.
- narcotize — to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- nectarize — to mix or saturate with nectar.
- ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- paleozoic — noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 570 million and 230 million years ago, characterized by the advent of fish, insects, and reptiles.
- panzootic — a disease that affects all the animals in a geographical area
- pizzicato — played by plucking the strings with the finger instead of using the bow, as on a violin.
- quizzical — odd, queer, or comical.
- racialize — to impose a racial interpretation on; place in a racial context.
- razor cut — a fluffy hairstyle, usually tapering at the neck, trimmed by a razor
- razorback — a finback or rorqual.
- razorclam — type of mollusc with a long, narrow shell
- rhizocarp — a plant that fruits underground or whose root remains intact while the leaves die off annually
- rhizocaul — a rootlike stem or stalk
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- sacralize — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- saprozoic — (of animals or plants) feeding on dead organic matter
- scazontic — relating to or consisting of scazons
- scenarize — to make or create a scenario of something
- schmaltzy — of, relating to, or characterized by schmaltz.
- schnauzer — one of a German breed of sturdy medium-sized dogs having a tight, wiry, pepper-and-salt or pure black coat, bristly eyebrows and beardlike whiskers, and a docked tail, used originally as a ratter and a guard dog and later used in police work.
- schvartze — a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
- 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.
- socialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- sulcalize — to furrow, make a furrow in; predominantly, to make a furrow in (the tongue), make the surface of (the tongue) concave in order to produce certain phonemes
- tauchnitz — Karl Christoph Traugott [kahrl kris-tawf trou-gawt] /ˈkɑrl ˈkrɪs tɔf ˈtraʊ gɔt/ (Show IPA), 1761–1836, and his son, Karl Christian Philipp [kris-tee-ahn fee-lip,, fil-ip] /ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn ˈfi lɪp,, ˈfɪl ɪp/ (Show IPA) 1798–1884, German printers and publishers.
- tzarevich — czarevitch.
- tzaristic — czarist.
- vacuumize — to create a vacuum in.
- volcanize — to affect or alter by volcanic heat or action.
- vulcanize — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- walbrzych — a city in SW Poland, in Silesia.
- wałbrzych — an industrial city in SW Poland. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
- zacatecas — a state in central Mexico. 28,125 sq. mi. (72,845 sq. km).
- zachariah — the father of John the Baptist. Luke 1:5.
- zacharias — Douay Bible. Zechariah.
- zacynthus — Latin name of Zante.
- zapotecan — a group of Amerindian languages spoken mainly in Oaxaca, Mexico
- zechariah — a Minor Prophet of the 6th century b.c.
- zeugmatic — the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.
- zircalloy — an alloy of zirconium containing small amounts of tin, chromium, and nickel. It is used in pressurized-water reactors
- zirconian — (mineralogy) Describing minerals containing zirconium.
- znaniecki — Florian [flaw-ree-ahn] /flɔˈri ɑn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1958, Polish sociologist.
- zoiatrics — the science of veterinary surgery
- zoomantic — of or relating to zoomancy
- 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)
- zwiebacks — Plural form of zwieback.
- zygomatic — of, relating to, or situated near the zygoma.