10-letter words containing z, i, n
- vajazzling — the practice of decorating the region around the female genital organs with jewellery
- vietnamize — to place under Vietnamese control or responsibility; subject to Vietnamization.
- villainize — to speak ill of; disparage; vilify: to villainize the wealthy.
- vitalizing — to give life to; make vital.
- vitaminize — to add vitamins to (food or drink)
- vulcanizer — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- 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.
- westernize — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
- wheeziness — The state of being wheezy.
- wheezingly — With a wheezing sound.
- 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.
- whizzingly — in a whizzing manner, with a whizzing sound or motion
- winsorized — Simple past tense and past participle of winsorize.
- winterized — Simple past tense and past participle of winterize.
- womanizers — Plural form of womanizer.
- womanizing — Present participle of womanize.
- 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.
- zebulunite — a member of the tribe of Zebulun. Num. 26:27.
- zephyrinus — Saint, pope a.d. 198?–217.
- zero in on — the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
- zero point — the point on a scale that denotes zero and from which positive and negative readings can be made
- zhou enlai — 1898–1976, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1949–76.
- zidovudine — the international generic term for azidothymidine.
- ziguinchor — a seaport in SW Senegal.
- zigzagging — Present participle of zigzag.
- 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.
- zinc green — cobalt green (def 2).
- zinc oxide — a white insoluble powder used as a pigment in paints (zinc white or Chinese white), cosmetics, glass, and printing inks. It is an antiseptic and astringent and is used in making zinc ointment. Formula: ZnO
- zinc white — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
- zincblende — The mineral sphalerite.
- zinckenite — a steel-gray mineral with metallic luster, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 6 Sb 14 S 27 .
- zincograph — (formerly) a zinc plate produced by zincography.
- zinovievsk — a former name of Kirovograd.
- zinzendorf — Count Nikolaus Ludwig von [nee-koh-lous loot-vikh fuh n,, lood-] /ˈni koʊˌlaʊs ˈlut vɪx fən,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1700–60, German religious leader: reformer and organizer of the Moravian Church.
- zollverein — (in the 19th century) a union of German states for the maintenance of a uniform tariff on imports from other countries, and of free trading among themselves.
- zonal soil — soil having a profile determined mainly by the local climate and vegetation
- zoom in on — to move quickly or suddenly with a loud humming or buzzing sound: cars zooming by on the freeway.
- zurbriggen — Pirmin, born 1963, Swiss Alpine skier.
- zwitterion — an ion with both a positive and a negative charge.