11-letter words containing z, i, n
- unvulgarize — to make unvulgar; to raise from the level of the common and ordinary; to refine; to elevate
- utilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- utopianizer — an idealist
- vacuumizing — to create a vacuum in.
- vagabondize — to behave like a vagabond
- voznesenski — Andrei (Andreievich) [ahn-drey ahn-drey-yuh-vich;; Russian uhn-dryey uhn-drye-yi-vyich] /ˈɑn dreɪ ɑnˈdreɪ yə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈdryeɪ ʌnˈdryɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), (Andre Voznesensky) 1933–2010, Russian poet.
- vulcanizate — a vulcanized substance.
- westernized — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
- westernizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of westernize.
- winterizing — Present participle of winterize.
- zauschneria — Epilobium canum, a North American willowherb.
- zebra finch — a small Australian waxbill, Poephila guttata, that has black-and-white barred plumage and a chestnut ear patch: popular as a cage bird.
- zener diode — a semiconductor diode across which the reverse voltage remains almost constant over a wide range of currents, used especially to regulate voltage.
- zenith tube — a telescope mounted to point only at the zenith, used at some observatories for measuring time by the stars.
- zero option — (in international nuclear arms negotiations) an offer to remove all shorter-range nuclear missiles or, in the case of the zero-zero option all intermediate-range nuclear missiles, if the other side will do the same
- zero-rating — the process of rating goods at a VAT level of zero
- zhangjiakou — a city in NW Hebei province, in NE China: capital of the former Qahar province.
- zhao ziyang — 1919–2005, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1980–87; general secretary of the Communist Party 1987–89.
- zhou en lai — Chou En-lai
- zhoukoudian — the site of fossil-bearing caves near Peking, China, dating from the middle Pleistocene, in one of which were found the physical remains of Peking man together with stone tools and evidence of fire use.
- zillionaire — a person of incalculably great wealth.
- zinc blende — sphalerite.
- zinciferous — yielding or containing zinc.
- zincographs — Plural form of zincograph.
- zincography — the art or process of producing a printing surface on a zinc plate, especially of producing one in relief by etching away unprotected parts with acid.
- zinnwaldite — a yellow-brown variety of mica containing iron, found with tin ores.
- ziprasidone — An antipsychotic drug used in the treatment of schizophrenia etc.
- zoantharian — of or relating to the Zoantharia, a group of animals including all stony corals and sea anemones
- zoanthropic — relating to or displaying zoanthropy
- zombie bank — a bank that has liabilities exceeding its assets but continues to operate through government support: These zombie banks are unable or unwilling to lend out money.
- zoogonidium — a motile plant or fungal structure containing spores
- zoografting — zooplasty.
- zoomagnetic — of or relating to animal magnetism or hypnotism
- zoosanitary — Pertaining to the cleanliness of animals or animal products.
- zootechnics — the breeding and domestication of animals; the technology of animal husbandry.
- zoroastrian — of or relating to Zoroaster or to Zoroastrianism.
- zwischenzug — a tactical move interpolated into an exchange or series of exchanges to improve the outcome
- zwitterions — Plural form of zwitterion.
- zygogenesis — the formation of a zygote.
- zymogenesis — the conversion of a zymogen into an enzyme