9-letter words containing z, e, r
- pearlized — resembling or made to resemble mother-of-pearl; iridescent: pearlized buttons.
- periodize — to divide (a portion of time) into periods
- petahertz — one quadrillion (10 15) hertz. Abbreviation: PHz.
- pforzheim — a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- picturize — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pillorize — to pillory (someone or something)
- pluralize — to express in the plural form; make plural: to pluralize a noun.
- polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- polarizer — a person or thing that polarizes.
- posterize — to humiliate (a sporting opponent) by performing a dramatic feat against them
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- preconize — to proclaim or commend publicly.
- prefreeze — to freeze beforehand
- 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
- proenzyme — any of a group of proteins that are converted to active enzymes by partial breakdown, as by the action of an acid or other enzyme.
- prologize — to perform or introduce by means of a prologue
- promazine — a compound, C 17 H 20 N 2 S, used as a tranquilizer.
- prozymite — a person using leavened bread for the Eucharist
- pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pyrolyzed — to subject (a substance) to pyrolysis.
- quantizer — An electronic device that samples a varying quantity (e.g. a waveform) and generates a digital response.
- 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.
- 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
- razorable — able to be shaved
- razzberry — raspberry (def 4).
- realizing — to grasp or understand clearly.
- rebaptize — to baptize again
- rebbetzin — the wife of a rabbi.
- recognize — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reoxidize — to oxidize again
- reseizure — the action of reseizing or taking hold of something again
- reutilize — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- reznikoff — Charles, 1894–1976, U.S. poet.
- rhetorize — to make use of rhetoric
- rhodanize — to plate with rhodium
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rhythmize — to make rhythmic, to add rhythm to something
- rift zone — a system of related, narrow structural depressions between parallel faults.
- rightsize — to adjust to an appropriate size: Layoffs will be necessary to rightsize our workforce.
- ritualize — to practice ritualism.
- ritziness — swanky; elegant; posh: a ritzy neighborhood; a ritzy hotel.
- routinize — to develop into a regular procedure.