9-letter words containing z, o, i, a
- ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostrasize — Misspelling of ostracize.
- ovalizing — Present participle of ovalize.
- ozonation — the act or instance of ozonating
- ozostomia — bad breath; halitosis.
- paleozoic — noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 570 million and 230 million years ago, characterized by the advent of fish, insects, and reptiles.
- panzootic — a disease that affects all the animals in a geographical area
- patronize — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pizza box — [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
- pizzaiola — (of a sauce or dish) made with tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, and other seasonings
- pizzicato — played by plucking the strings with the finger instead of using the bow, as on a violin.
- platonize — to follow or adopt the doctrines of Plato.
- polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- polarizer — a person or thing that polarizes.
- promazine — a compound, C 17 H 20 N 2 S, used as a tranquilizer.
- randomize — to order or select in a random manner, as in a sample or experiment, especially in order to reduce bias and interference caused by irrelevant variables; make random.
- razorbill — a common auk, Alca torda, of the North Atlantic, having a thick laterally compressed bill with white markings
- razorfish — any of several wrasses of the genus Hemipteronatus having a compressed, sharp-edged head, as H. novacula (pearly razorfish) of the West Indies and the Mediterranean Sea.
- rhizobial — of or relating to rhizobium
- rhizocarp — a plant that fruits underground or whose root remains intact while the leaves die off annually
- rhizocaul — a rootlike stem or stalk
- rhodanize — to plate with rhodium
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- ribozymal — of or relating to ribozymes
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- saprozoic — (of animals or plants) feeding on dead organic matter
- scazontic — relating to or consisting of scazons
- sloganize — to make a slogan of; express as a slogan: to sloganize one's opinions.
- socialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- thorazine — chlorpromazine
- totalizer — a person or thing that totals.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- vaporizer — a person or thing that vaporizes.
- volcanize — to affect or alter by volcanic heat or action.
- wantonize — to make (something) wanton
- waterzooi — A type of Flemish stew, traditionally made with fish.
- weaponize — to supply or equip with a weapon or weapons: to weaponize trucks and helicopters.
- womanized — to make effeminate.
- womanizer — a philanderer.
- womanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of womanize.
- yousafzai — Malala (məˈlælə) born 1997, Pakistani women's rights campaigner; survived an attack by a Taliban gunman (2012); Nobel Peace Prize (2014)
- zákinthos — one of the southernmost islands of the Ionian Islands, Greece: 155 sq mi (401 sq km)
- zelotypia — (formal) jealousy.
- zircalloy — an alloy of zirconium containing small amounts of tin, chromium, and nickel. It is used in pressurized-water reactors
- zirconian — (mineralogy) Describing minerals containing zirconium.
- zoiatrics — the science of veterinary surgery
- zoomantic — of or relating to zoomancy
- zoophagia — (pathology) The act of eating living creatures.
- zoophilia — the state of being zoophilous.
- zoophobia — abnormal fear of animals.