8-letter words containing z, i, a
- dizzards — Plural form of dizzard.
- douzaine — a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win.
- dynamize — Give power or energy to; make dynamic.
- equalize — Make the same in quantity, size, or degree throughout a place or group.
- ezechias — a king of Judah ?715–?687 bc, noted for his religious reforms (II Kings 18–19)
- fabulize — To compose or relate fables or fictions.
- faizabad — a city in E Uttar Pradesh, in N India: the ancient site Ayodhya, sacred to the Hindus, is nearby.
- fanzines — Plural form of fanzine.
- faradize — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
- feminazi — A radical feminist.
- finalize — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- focalize — Focus (something), in particular.
- francize — to force to adopt French customs and the French language.
- gauziest — Superlative form of gauzy.
- ghazzali — Al- [al] /æl/ (Show IPA), 1058–1111, Arab philosopher.
- gizzards — Also called ventriculus. a thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit.
- glaziers — Plural form of glazier.
- glaziery — the work of a glazier; glasswork.
- graecize — to impart Greek characteristics to.
- graziers — Plural form of grazier.
- grazioso — graceful; flowing.
- halutzim — a person who immigrates to Israel to establish or join a settlement for accomplishing tasks, as clearing the land or planting trees, that are necessary to future development of the country.
- haziness — characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
- hebraize — to use expressions or constructions distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hepatize — to transform into a liver-like substance
- hepzibah — a female given name.
- hezekiah — a king of Judah of the 7th and 8th centuries b.c. II Kings 18.
- hoactzin — hoatzin.
- huizinga — Johan, 1872–1945, Dutch historian.
- humanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- huzzaing — Present participle of huzza.
- iarovize — to vernalize.
- ibn-ezra — Abraham Ben Meir. 1093–1167, Jewish poet, scholar, and traveller, born in Spain
- idealize — to make ideal; represent in an ideal form or character; exalt to an ideal perfection or excellence.
- imblazed — Simple past tense and past participle of imblaze.
- infamize — to make infamous
- islamize — to convert to Islam.
- izvestia — (formerly) the official newspaper of the Soviet government.
- jacuzzis — Plural form of jacuzzi.
- jahrzeit — the anniversary of the death of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse, observed by lighting a memorial lamp or candle the night before and reciting the Kaddish at the evening service of the day before and at the morning and afternoon services of the day itself.
- jalfrezi — A style of curry made with onion, tomato and capsicum given added heat by the addition of green chillis.
- janizary — (often initial capital letter) a member of an elite military unit of the Turkish army organized in the 14th century and abolished in 1826 after it revolted against the Sultan.
- japanize — to make Japanese or Japaneselike, as in design, culture, or usability; imbue with Japanese characteristics: working on a project to Japanize an American software program.
- jarovize — to vernalize.
- jazziest — Superlative form of jazzy.
- jazzlike — (music) Resembling jazz.
- jiantizi — Alternative spelling of Jiantizi.
- jiaozhou — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- kamikaze — (during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.
- karadzic — Radovan [rah-duh-vahn] /ˈrɑ dəˌvɑn/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Bosnian Serb political leader, indicted as a war criminal 1995.