10-letter words containing z, a, s, t
- ostracized — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracize.
- ostracizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ostracize.
- outdazzles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdazzle.
- parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.
- pasteurize — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pestalozzi — Johann Heinrich [German yoh-hahn hahyn-rikh] /German ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1746–1827, Swiss educational reformer.
- phantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- plasticize — to make or become plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
- rose topaz — a rose-pink form of topaz produced by heating yellow-brown topaz
- salt glaze — a ceramic glaze on stoneware produced by the chemical reaction that occurs when salt is thrown into a kiln during firing.
- salzgitter — a city in Lower Saxony, in central Germany, SE of Hanover.
- sanitizing — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- santa cruz — a city on the coast of California.
- satirizing — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- schematize — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
- somaticize — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- spirantize — to change into or pronounce as a spirant.
- st-nazaire — seaport in NW France, at the mouth of the Loire: pop. 65,000
- stabilizer — a person or thing that stabilizes.
- star prize — The star prize in a competition is the most valuable prize.
- star-gazer — a person who stargazes, as an astronomer or astrologer.
- stargazing — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- stigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- stir-crazy — Informal. restless or frantic because of confinement, routine, etc.: I was stir-crazy after just two months of keeping house.
- strategize — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- strelitzia — any southern African perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Strelitzia, cultivated for its showy flowers: includes the bird-of-paradise flower: family Strelitziaceae
- suzerainty — the position or authority of a suzerain.
- sympathize — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- the azores — three groups of volcanic islands in the N Atlantic, since 1976 an autonomous region of Portugal. Capital: Ponta Delgada (on São Miguel). Pop: 241 762 (2001). Area: 2335 sq km (901 sq miles)
- uzbekistan — a republic in S central Asia. 172,741 sq. mi. (447,400 sq. km). Capital: Tashkent.
- waist size — circumference of one's waist
- waziristan — a mountainous region in NW Pakistan.
- zapateados — Plural form of zapateado.
- zb station — (in New Zealand) a radio station of a commercial network
- zero stage — a solid-propellant rocket attached to a liquid-propellant rocket to provide greater thrust at liftoff
- zeta-jones — Catherine, original name Catherine Jones. born 1969, Welsh actress, who made her name in the TV series The Darling Buds of May (1991–93) before starring in the films Traffic (2000), Chicago (2002), and Smoke and Mirrors (2004)
- zettabytes — Plural form of zettabyte.
- zooplastic — the transplantation of living tissue to the human body from an animal of another species.
- zoothapsis — (archaic, nonce) premature burial.
- zygocactus — Any cactus in the genus Schlumbergera (previously Zygocactus).
- zythepsary — (rare) A brewery.