9-letter words containing z, i, n
- whiz-bang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whizzbang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- winsorize — (statistics) To transform statistics of a batch or sample by transforming extreme values.
- winterize — to prepare (an automobile, house, etc.) for cold weather by (in automobiles) adding antifreeze and changing oil or (in houses) adding insulation, heating units, etc.
- wizarding — Present participle of wizard.
- womanized — to make effeminate.
- womanizer — a philanderer.
- womanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of womanize.
- wooziness — stupidly confused; muddled: woozy from a blow on the head.
- wyszynski — Stefan [stef-ahn] /ˈstɛf ɑn/ (Show IPA), Cardinal, 1901–81, Polish Roman Catholic clergyman: archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and primate of Poland 1949–81; cardinal 1953–81.
- zabernism — (obsolete) The misuse or abuse of military authority; bullying.
- zákinthos — one of the southernmost islands of the Ionian Islands, Greece: 155 sq mi (401 sq km)
- zambezian — a river in S Africa, flowing S and W from Zambia through E Angola and Zambia and then E along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the Indian Ocean. 1650 miles (2657 km) long.
- zamindari — (in British India) the system of landholding and tax collection by zamindars.
- zamindars — Plural form of zamindar.
- zanamivir — a drug used to treat influenza
- zanzibari — an island off the E coast of Africa: with Pemba and adjacent small islands it formerly comprised a sultanate under British protection; became independent in 1963; now part of Tanzania. 640 sq. mi. (1658 sq. km).
- zemindary — zamindari.
- zemlinsky — Alexander von, 1871–1942, Austrian composer and conductor.
- zephaniah — a Minor Prophet of the 7th century b.c.
- zephyrian — of, relating to, or like a zephyr; full of or containing light breezes.
- zervanism — a Zoroastrian heresy that developed during the late Achaemenian period according to which both Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu were offspring of Zurvan.
- zhanjiang — a city in SW Guangdong province, SE China, on an inlet of the South China Sea.
- zhenjiang — a port in S Jiangsu province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang.
- zhu jiang — a river in SE China, in S Guangdong province, flowing E and S from Canton and forming an estuary near Hong Kong. About 110 miles (177 km) long.
- zillionth — (informal) The ordinal form of the number 'zillion'.
- zinc dust — zinc in powder form which is obtained by grinding or processing; used as a paint and deoxidizing agent
- zinfandel — a black vinifera grape, grown in California.
- zinkenite — a steel-gray mineral with metallic luster, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 6 Sb 14 S 27 .
- zippering — Present participle of zipper.
- zippiness — The quality of being zippy.
- zirconian — (mineralogy) Describing minerals containing zirconium.
- zirconite — (mineralogy) A light brown variety of zircon.
- zirconium — a metallic element found combined in zircon, baddeleyite, etc., resembling titanium chemically: used in steel metallurgy, as a scavenger, as a refractory, and as an opacifier in vitreous enamels. Symbol: Zr; atomic weight: 91.22; atomic number: 40; specific gravity: 6.49 at 20°C.
- znaniecki — Florian [flaw-ree-ahn] /flɔˈri ɑn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1958, Polish sociologist.
- zone line — blue line.
- zone time — standard time as applied at sea, reckoned according to the system of time zones.
- zonetimes — Plural form of zonetime.
- zoomantic — of or relating to zoomancy
- zoonomist — an expert in zoonomy
- zootoxins — Plural form of zootoxin.
- zsigmondy — Richard [rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1865–1929, German chemist, born in Austria: Nobel prize 1925.
- zurvanism — a Zoroastrian heresy that developed during the late Achaemenian period according to which both Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu were offspring of Zurvan.
- zwanziger — a former silver coin of Germany or Austria worth twenty kreutzers
- zwinglian — of or relating to Ulrich Zwingli or his doctrines, largely agreeing with those of Luther and offering a distinctive interpretation of the Lord's Supper.
- zymogenic — of or relating to a zymogen
- zyryenian — a member of a Uralic people of northeastern European Russia.