8-letter words containing z, a, n, i
- japanize — to make Japanese or Japaneselike, as in design, culture, or usability; imbue with Japanese characteristics: working on a project to Japanize an American software program.
- jiantizi — Alternative spelling of Jiantizi.
- kazooing — Present participle of kazoo.
- kyanized — Simple past tense and past participle of kyanize.
- latinize — to cause to conform to the customs, traditions, beliefs, etc., of the Latins or the Latin Church.
- laziness — lazy evaluation
- lazuline — having the color of lapis lazuli.
- lezghian — a member of a people living mainly in the Dagestan Autonomous Republic in the Russian Federation.
- magazine — a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or area, as hobbies, news, or sports.
- marenzio — Luca (ˈluːka). 1553–99, Italian composer of madrigals
- martinez — a town in W California.
- marzipan — a confection made of almonds reduced to a paste with sugar and often molded into various forms, usually diminutive fruits and vegetables.
- mazarine — a deep, rich blue.
- melanize — To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in.
- monazite — a reddish- or yellowish-brown mineral, a phosphate of cerium and lanthanum, (Ce,La)PO 4 : the principal ore of thorium.
- nasalize — to pronounce as a nasal sound.
- nazarite — (among the ancient Hebrews) a person who had taken certain strict religious vows, usually for a limited period.
- nazimova — Alla [ah-luh] /ˈɑ lə/ (Show IPA), 1879–1945, Russian actress in the U.S.
- nazirite — (among the ancient Hebrews) a person who had taken certain strict religious vows, usually for a limited period.
- neo-nazi — a person who belongs to a political organization whose beliefs are inspired by or reminiscent of Nazism.
- nizamate — the position held or territory governed by a Nizam.
- nodalize — to make something nodal or concentrated at a point
- nomadize — to live in the manner of a nomad.
- notarize — to certify (a document, contract, etc.) or cause to become certified through a notary public.
- organize — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- paganize — to make pagan.
- partizan — partisan2 .
- patinize — to coat with a patina
- penalize — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- piacenza — a city in N Italy, on the Po River.
- piazzian — (in poems by Keats) of or referring to a piazza
- prazosin — a white crystalline substance, C 1 9 H 2 1 N 5 O 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- prizeman — a man who wins a prize
- quantize — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- rendzina — a dark, rich soil containing limestone or chalk, above a softer, pale, calcareous layer, developed in grassland areas of high to moderate humidity.
- romanize — to make Roman Catholic.
- salinize — to treat with salt or render saline.
- sanitize — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- sarrazin — buckwheat (defs 1–3).
- simazine — a colorless crystalline selective herbicide, C 7 H 1 2 ClN 5 , used for season-long weed control in corn and other crops.
- spazzing — an awkward or clumsy 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.
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- taizhong — Taichung.
- tanizaki — Junichiro [joo-nee-chee-raw] /ˈdʒu niˈtʃi rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1886–1965, Japanese novelist.
- tanzania — a republic in E Africa formed in 1964 by the merger of the republic of Tanganyika and the former island sultanate of Zanzibar (including Pemba and adjacent small islands). 364,881 sq. mi. (945,037 sq. km). Capital: Dodoma.
- tetanize — to induce tetanus in (a muscle).
- thiazine — any of a class of compounds containing a ring composed of one atom each of sulfur and nitrogen and four atoms of carbon.
- topazine — like topaz
- 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 .