8-letter words containing z, a, s
- sporozoa — the protist phylum (or animal class) comprising the sporozoans.
- 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.
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- subsizar — formerly, an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge who did not have to pay tuition fees but who instead helped in the kitchen or household of their college
- subzonal — located under a zona, esp under the zona of an ovum
- superzap — (tool, IBM) An IBM utility program used to quickly patch operating system or application program executable code in preference to editing the source code and recompiling. The SuperZAP program was a quick hack written by one IBM Engineer, possibly from IBM UK, in the late 1960s to directly fix executable files. He needed to fix a bug but it would have taken hours to rebuild the vast OS/360 executables. The S/360 architecture has an instruction ZAP (Zero and Add Packed) for packed decmial arithmetic, that sets the byte at a given address to a given value. Superzap used this to write data given as a string of hex digits to a given location in an executable file in a matter of seconds. Soon the IBM development labs were releasing all Programming Temporary Fixes (PTFs) to OS/360 in this form. OS/360 included a version called IMASPZAP or AMASPZAP which persisted through MVS, MVS/SP, MVS/XA, OS/390 and probably still remains in z/OS, the distant descendent of OS/360.
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- svizzera — Italian name of Switzerland.
- szabadka — Hungarian name of Subotica.
- szechuan — Sichuan.
- szechwan — Sichuan.
- tristeza — a disease of certain citrus trees, characterized by yellowed leaves, wilting, and root destruction, caused by a virus.
- tsaritza — a czarina.
- waltzers — Plural form of waltzer.
- warszawa — Polish name of Warsaw.
- wazzocks — Plural form of wazzock.
- zaanstad — a port in the W Netherlands, in North Holland: formed (1974) from Zaandam, Koog a/d Zaan, Zaandijk, Wormerveer, Krommenie, Westzaan, and Assendelft; food and machinery industries. Pop: 139 000 (2003 est)
- zaharias — Mildred Didrikson [did-rik-suh n] /ˈdɪd rɪk sən/ (Show IPA), ("Babe") 1914–56, U.S. track-and-field athlete and golfer.
- zaibatsu — a great industrial or financial combination of Japan.
- zaniness — ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.
- zastruga — sastruga.
- zastrugi — sastruga.
- zatishye — former name of Elektrostal.
- zealants — Plural form of zealant.
- zealless — fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.
- zelkovas — Plural form of zelkova.
- zetalisp — (language) The Maclisp dialect used on the LISP Machine. The many extensions to Maclisp include vectors, closures, flavors, stack groups, locatives, and invisible pointers. Currently supported by Lisp Machines, Inc. and Symbolics.
- zincates — Plural form of zincate.
- ziusudra — a legendary Sumerian king who built a boat in which to escape the Deluge.
- zlatoust — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, in the Ural Mountains.
- zooblast — an animal cell
- zorillas — Plural form of zorilla.
- zyzzyvas — any of various South American weevils of the genus Zyzzyva, often destructive to plants.