9-letter words containing z, i, p, o
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- potentize — to make more potent, esp. a drug
- powellize — to preserve (wood) by boiling it in a sugar solution, as done first by W Powell of Liverpool; also, to preserve (wood) by treating it with arsenic, as marketed by N. S. W. Powell Wood Process Ltd.
- preconize — to proclaim or commend publicly.
- prologize — to perform or introduce by means of a prologue
- promazine — a compound, C 17 H 20 N 2 S, used as a tranquilizer.
- protozoic — containing remains of the Earth's earliest life forms
- prozymite — a person using leavened bread for the Eucharist
- rhizocarp — a plant that fruits underground or whose root remains intact while the leaves die off annually
- rhizopods — any of numerous protozoa of the widespread subphylum (or superclass) Rhizopoda, characterized by a pseudopod and comprising most members of the phylum Sarcodina, including the amebas and foraminifers.
- saprozoic — (of animals or plants) feeding on dead organic matter
- schizopod — any crustacean of the former order or division Schizopoda, now divided into the orders Mysidacea, comprising the opossum shrimps, and Euphausiacea, comprising krill.
- skip zone — a region surrounding a broadcasting station that cannot receive transmissions either directly or by reflection off the ionosphere
- spinozism — the philosophical system of Spinoza, which defines God as the unique substance, as an impersonal deity, and as possessing an infinite number of attributes, of which we know only thought and extension, and an infinite number of modes, each modifying all of the attributes, these attributes and modes being regarded both as proceeding necessarily from the nature of God and as constituents of God.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- synopsize — to make a synopsis of; summarize.
- temporize — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- vaporizer — a person or thing that vaporizes.
- weaponize — to supply or equip with a weapon or weapons: to weaponize trucks and helicopters.
- zelotypia — (formal) jealousy.
- zoetropic — of or relating to a zoetrope
- zooperist — a person who practises zoopery
- zoophagia — (pathology) The act of eating living creatures.
- zoophilia — the state of being zoophilous.
- zoophilic — Botany. adapted to pollination by animals, especially those other than insects.
- zoophobia — abnormal fear of animals.
- zoophoric — supporting or having a carved animal figure
- zooscopic — of or relating to zooscopy
- zoosporic — Having or pertaining to zoospores.