10-letter words containing z, i, a
- vitaminize — to add vitamins to (food or drink)
- volatilize — to become volatile; pass off as vapor.
- vulcanizer — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- waist size — circumference of one's waist
- warrantize — to guarantee the security of (land) to a person
- waziristan — a mountainous region in NW Pakistan.
- weaponized — Made into, or to serve as, a weapon.
- weatherize — to make (a house or other building) secure against cold or stormy weather, as by adding insulation, siding, and storm windows.
- weizsacker — Carl Friedrich von [kahrl free-drikh fuh n] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1912–2007, German physicist and cosmologist.
- whizz-bang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whizzbangs — Plural form of whizzbang.
- wire gauze — a gauzelike fabric woven of very fine wires.
- wizardlike — Resembling a wizard or some aspect of one.
- womanizers — Plural form of womanizer.
- womanizing — Present participle of womanize.
- z particle — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.
- zabaglione — a foamy, custardlike mixture of egg yolks, sugar, and Marsala wine, usually served hot or chilled as a dessert.
- zamindaris — Plural form of zamindari.
- zanesville — a city in SE Ohio.
- zb station — (in New Zealand) a radio station of a commercial network
- zeaxanthin — A carotenoid present in the retina of the eye and in many plants, used as a food additive and supplement.
- zebra fish — any of various fishes with barred, zebralike markings; often, specif., a danio (Danio rerio) that is kept in aquariums and used in genetic research
- zelophobia — an intense fear of jealousy or of strong emotion
- zhou enlai — 1898–1976, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1949–76.
- zia ul haq — Mohammed, 1924–88, Pakistani army general and political leader: president 1978–88.
- zia-ul-haq — Mohammed, 1924–88, Pakistani army general and political leader: president 1978–88.
- zigzaggery — the quality or state of being zigzag
- zigzagging — Present participle of zigzag.
- zika virus — a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus that causes Zika, a mild illness.
- zilog z80a — (processor) A version of the Zilog Z80 microprocessor with a 4 MHz clock rate.
- zimbabwean — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
- zincograph — (formerly) a zinc plate produced by zincography.
- zonal soil — soil having a profile determined mainly by the local climate and vegetation
- zoological — of or relating to zoology.
- zooplastic — the transplantation of living tissue to the human body from an animal of another species.
- zoothapsis — (archaic, nonce) premature burial.
- zoothecial — of or relating to the zoothecia