9-letter words containing z, a
- prelatize — to advocate or bring under the authority of prelacy
- privatize — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- prize day — a day when prizes are rewarded to pupils who have produced a very high standard of work
- promazine — a compound, C 17 H 20 N 2 S, used as a tranquilizer.
- protozoal — relating to protozoans
- protozoan — any of a diverse group of eukaryotes, of the kingdom Protista, that are primarily unicellular, existing singly or aggregating into colonies, are usually nonphotosynthetic, and are often classified further into phyla according to their capacity for and means of motility, as by pseudopods, flagella, or cilia.
- puzzolana — pozzolana.
- quantized — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quantizer — An electronic device that samples a varying quantity (e.g. a waveform) and generates a digital response.
- quantizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quantize.
- quartzite — a granular metamorphic rock consisting essentially of quartz in interlocking grains.
- quartzose — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quizzical — odd, queer, or comical.
- racialize — to impose a racial interpretation on; place in a racial context.
- 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.
- ranzelman — a type of police officer responsible for investigating minor crimes
- rapturize — to go into ecstasies or raptures
- rasterize — to convert into pixels for screen output; convert into a raster image
- razor cut — a fluffy hairstyle, usually tapering at the neck, trimmed by a razor
- razorable — able to be shaved
- razorback — a finback or rorqual.
- razorbill — a common auk, Alca torda, of the North Atlantic, having a thick laterally compressed bill with white markings
- razorclam — type of mollusc with a long, narrow shell
- razorfish — any of several wrasses of the genus Hemipteronatus having a compressed, sharp-edged head, as H. novacula (pearly razorfish) of the West Indies and the Mediterranean Sea.
- razzberry — raspberry (def 4).
- realizing — to grasp or understand clearly.
- rebaptize — to baptize again
- rhizobial — of or relating to rhizobium
- rhizocarp — a plant that fruits underground or whose root remains intact while the leaves die off annually
- rhizocaul — a rootlike stem or stalk
- rhodanize — to plate with rhodium
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- ribozymal — of or relating to ribozymes
- ritualize — to practice ritualism.
- rizal day — December 30: a legal holiday commemorating the death of José Rizal.
- sabbatize — to keep the Sabbath.
- sacralize — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- salinized — to treat with salt or render saline.
- saltglaze — having a salt glaze.
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- sanitized — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- sanitizer — a substance or preparation for killing germs, designed for use especially on food-processing equipment.
- saprozoic — (of animals or plants) feeding on dead organic matter
- satirized — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- satirizes — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- 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.