9-letter words containing z, a
- jargonize — to talk jargon or a jargon.
- jasperize — To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
- 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.
- jazz club — jazz music venue
- jazz rock — a style of music that combines jazz and rock
- jazz shoe — a man's plain, close-fitting, low-heeled oxford made of soft leather or other material and having a thin, flexible sole, worn for jazz dancing.
- jazz-rock — music that combines elements of both jazz and rock and is usually performed on amplified electric instruments.
- 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
- jazzfests — Plural form of jazzfest.
- jazziness — The state, quality or property of being jazzy.
- jazzwoman — a female jazz musician.
- jazzwomen — Plural form of jazzwoman.
- kaczynski — Lech. 1949–2010, Polish politician, president of Poland (2005–10)
- kala-azar — a chronic, usually fatal disease occurring in tropical areas of Asia and the Western Hemisphere, characterized by irregular fever, enlargement of the spleen, anemia, and emaciation, caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani.
- kalamazoo — a city in SW Michigan.
- kamikazes — Plural form of kamikaze.
- kaolinize — to convert (minerals containing kaolinite) into kaolin by weathering.
- kazatskes — a lively, Slavic folk dance for a solo male dancer, marked especially by the prisiadka.
- kazillion — (slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
- khudzhand — a city in NW Tajikistan, on the Syr Darya River.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- kirghizia — a republic in central Asia, S of Kazakhstan and N of Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan). 76,460 sq. mi. (198,500 sq. km). Capital: Bishkek.
- kolozsvar — Hungarian name of Cluj-Napoca.
- kzyl-orda — a city in S Kazakhstan, on the Syr Darya.
- la spezia — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Ligurian Sea: naval base.
- labialize — to give a labial character to (a sound), for example, to round (a vowel).
- laicizing — Present participle of laicize.
- lanzarote — the most easterly of the Canary Islands; mountainous, with a volcanic landscape; tourism, fishing. Pop: 109 942 (2002 est). Area: 795 sq km (307 sq miles)
- latinized — (nonstandard) Incorrect capitalisation of Latinize. Simple past tense and past participle of latinize.
- laymanize — to simplify (technical information) into a form that can be understood by ordinary people
- lazarette — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
- lazaretto — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
- lazy list — A list which is built using a non-strict constructor. Any head or tail of the list may be an unevaluated closure. Also known as streams since they may be used to carry a sequence of values from the output of one function to an input of another. See also Lazy evaluation.
- lazybones — a lazy person.
- lazzarone — One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; beggars.
- legalized — Simple past tense and past participle of legalize.
- legalizer — That which makes legal.
- legalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of legalize.
- lemmatize — to sort (the words in a list or text) in order to determine the headword, under which other words are then listed.
- 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.
- linearize — to make linear; give linear form to.
- localized — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- localizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of localize.
- lorazepam — a benzodiazepine drug, C 15 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly in the management of acute anxiety and for insomnia.
- mackenzie — Sir Alexander, 1764–1820, Scottish explorer in Canada.
- magaziner — Someone who writes for a magazine.