9-letter words containing z, a, d
- jaz drive — (hardware, storage) Iomega Corporation's drive which takes removable one or two gigabyte disk cartridges which contain conventional hard disks. Internal and external drives are available claiming an average transfer rate of 330 megabytes per minute - though that is dependent on the SCSI adapter, the parallel port adapter is unlikely to reach anything like this speed. The Jaz drive was the successor to the company's more establistablished Zip Drive.
- jazz band — a band specializing in jazz, and consisting typically of trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, piano, double bass, and percussion.
- jazzed up — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- jazzed-up — made more exciting and more modern
- khudzhand — a city in NW Tajikistan, on the Syr Darya River.
- kzyl-orda — a city in S Kazakhstan, on the Syr Darya.
- latinized — (nonstandard) Incorrect capitalisation of Latinize. Simple past tense and past participle of latinize.
- legalized — Simple past tense and past participle of legalize.
- lespedeza — any shrub or herb belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and lavender flowers, grown for forage, soil improvement, etc.
- localized — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- man-sized — large; big; generous: a man-sized sandwich.
- maximized — Simple past tense and past participle of maximize.
- mazaedium — a fruiting body of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota in which there is a powdery mass of spores.
- mazedness — (obsolete) The condition of being mazed; confusion; astonishment.
- medialize — To become more medial.
- mediatize — to annex (a principality) to another state, while allowing certain rights to its former sovereign.
- midazolam — (medicine) A benzodiazepine drug that has anxiolytic, amnestic, hypnotic and anticonvulsant activity.
- mirandize — (sometimes lowercase) Informal. to advise (a person being arrested) of his or her rights under the Miranda ruling.
- mondayize — to move (a statutory holiday, such as the Queen's birthday) to the nearest Monday in order to secure a long weekend
- moralized — Simple past tense and past participle of moralize.
- nasalized — Simple past tense and past participle of nasalize.
- nomadized — Simple past tense and past participle of nomadize.
- nonglazed — not glazed
- notarized — Simple past tense and past participle of notarize.
- organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- outdazzle — (transitive) To surpass by dazzling more than; to outshine.
- panelized — composed of prefabricated sections of walls, floors, or roofs that can be assembled at the building site: a panelized house.
- paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
- pearlized — resembling or made to resemble mother-of-pearl; iridescent: pearlized buttons.
- pedantize — to act as a pedant; to make pedantic comments
- polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- prize day — a day when prizes are rewarded to pupils who have produced a very high standard of work
- quantized — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- radialize — to arrange in or form a radial pattern
- randomize — to order or select in a random manner, as in a sample or experiment, especially in order to reduce bias and interference caused by irrelevant variables; make random.
- rhodanize — to plate with rhodium
- rizal day — December 30: a legal holiday commemorating the death of José Rizal.
- salinized — to treat with salt or render saline.
- sanitized — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- satirized — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- sforzando — to be played with strong initial attack
- smorzando — fading away; dying out (a musical direction).
- swaziland — a kingdom in SE Africa between S Mozambique and the E Republic of South Africa: formerly a British protectorate. 6704 sq. mi. (17,363 sq. km). Capital: Mbabane.
- tanalized — having been treated with the trademarked timber preservative Tanalith
- trad jazz — a kind of jazz based on the jazz that was played in the 1920s
- tragedize — to make tragic; imbue with the aspects of tragedy: a story tragedized by calamity and loss of hope.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- trazodone — a white crystalline powder, C 19 H 22 ClN 5 O, used in the treatment of major depression disorders.
- tzaddikim — zaddik.
- unrazored — unshaven