9-letter words containing z, o, i, e
- pollinize — pollinate.
- posterize — to humiliate (a sporting opponent) by performing a dramatic feat against them
- 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.
- prozymite — a person using leavened bread for the Eucharist
- 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.
- recognize — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reoxidize — to oxidize again
- reznikoff — Charles, 1894–1976, U.S. poet.
- rhetorize — to make use of rhetoric
- rhodanize — to plate with rhodium
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rift zone — a system of related, narrow structural depressions between parallel faults.
- routinize — to develop into a regular procedure.
- ruwenzori — a mountain group in central Africa between Lake Albert and Lake Edward: sometimes identified with Ptolemy's “Mountains of the Moon.” Highest peak, Mt. Ngaliema (Stanley), with two summits: Mt. Margherita, 16,795 feet (5119 meters), and Mt. Alexandra, 16,726 feet (5098 meters).
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- sectorize — to split or divide into sectors
- sermonize — to deliver or compose a sermon; preach.
- shoe size — standard footwear measurement
- size zero — a very small size in women's clothes, originating in the US, equivalent to a UK size 4
- skip zone — a region surrounding a broadcasting station that cannot receive transmissions either directly or by reflection off the ionosphere
- 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.
- sodomized — to subject to sodomy; commit sodomy upon.
- sodomizes — to subject to sodomy; commit sodomy upon.
- solemnize — to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
- solutizer — any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its solubility or that of one or more of its components.
- sonnetize — to write sonnets.
- sorbitize — to turn metal into a form containing sorbite
- sovietize — (sometimes lowercase) to bring under the influence or domination of the Soviet Union.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- syllogize — to reason or infer by using syllogisms
- symbolize — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
- synoecize — (in ancient Greece) to unite under one capital city
- synopsize — to make a synopsis of; summarize.
- syntonize — to render syntonic; tune to the same frequency.
- temporize — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- terrorize — to fill or overcome with terror.
- teutonize — to make or become German or Germanic; Germanize
- thorazine — chlorpromazine
- time zone — one of the 24 regions or divisions of the globe approximately coinciding with meridians at successive hours from the observatory at Greenwich, England.
- torrenize — to register (property) under a Torrens law
- totalizer — a person or thing that totals.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- trebizond — a medieval empire in NE Asia Minor 1204–1461.
- uniodized — to treat, impregnate, or affect with iodine or an iodide.