8-letter words containing z, o, r
- ribozyme — a segment of RNA that can act as a catalyst.
- rio azul — an archaeological site in the jungles of northern Guatemala, where a 1500-year-old painted Mayan tomb was discovered intact in 1984.
- robotize — to turn (someone) into a robot.
- romanize — to make Roman Catholic.
- royalize — make royal
- sierozem — any of a group of calcareous, brownish gray soils based in a carbonate or hardpan layer, found in arid climates.
- sironize — to treat (a woollen fabric) chemically to prevent it wrinkling after being washed
- soberize — to make sober.
- solarize — Photography. to reverse (an image) partially, as from negative to positive, by exposure to light during development.
- sororize — to socialize in a sisterly way
- sporozoa — the protist phylum (or animal class) comprising the sporozoans.
- sub-zero — indicating or recording lower than zero on some scale, especially on the Fahrenheit scale: a week of sub-zero temperatures.
- terrazzo — a mosaic flooring or paving composed of chips of broken stone, usually marble, and cement, polished when in place.
- terzetto — a trio, esp a vocal one
- theorize — to form a theory or theories.
- triazoic — hydrazoic.
- triazole — any of a group of four compounds containing three nitrogen and two carbon atoms arranged in a five-membered ring and having the formula C 2 H 3 N 3 .
- trizonal — formed or arranged in three layers or zones
- tutorize — to tutor or instruct (a person)
- valorize — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- vaporize — to cause to change into vapor.
- voronezh — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe.
- war zone — (during wartime) a combat area in which the rights of neutrals are suspended, as such an area on the high seas, where ships flying a neutral flag are subject to attack.
- yarovize — to vernalize.
- zaragoza — Spanish name of Saragossa.
- zealotry — undue or excessive zeal; fanaticism.
- zero-sum — of or denoting a system in which the sum of the gains equals the sum of the losses: a zero-sum economy.
- zeroized — Simple past tense and past participle of zeroize.
- zhitomir — a city in central Ukraine, W of Kiev.
- zipporah — the daughter of Jethro and the wife of Moses. Ex. 2:21.
- zircaloy — any of various alloys containing about 98% zirconium, 1.5% tin, etc., that are resistant to corrosion and high temperatures and are used to contain fuel in nuclear reactors, etc.
- zirconia — Chemistry. a white, heavy, amorphous, odorless and tasteless, infusible, water-insoluble powder, ZrO 2 , used chiefly as a pigment for paints, an abrasive, and in the manufacture of refractory crucibles.
- zirconyl — containing the group ZrO=, as zirconyl bromide, ZrOBr 2 .
- zoetrope — a device for giving an illusion of motion, consisting of a slitted drum that, when whirled, shows a succession of images placed opposite the slits within the drum as one moving image.
- zoiatria — veterinary surgery
- zoo-tier — characteristic of a zoot suiter; extreme or flamboyant in style or appearance: a zooty new convertible.
- zoochore — a plant whose structure adapts it for dispersion by animals.
- zoochory — the dispersal of plant spores or seeds by animals
- zoograft — animal tissue grafted to a human body, as in transplants, etc
- zoolatry — the worship of or excessive attention to animals.
- zoometry — measurement of the proportionate lengths or sizes of the parts of animals.
- zoomorph — of or relating to a deity or other being conceived of as having the form of an animal.
- zooperal — of or relating to zoopery
- zoosperm — Botany, Mycology Archaic. zoospore.
- zoospore — Botany, Mycology. an asexual spore produced by certain algae and some fungi, capable of moving about by means of flagella.
- zophorus — a frieze having representations of people or animals.
- zorillas — Plural form of zorilla.
- zworykin — Vladimir Kosma [vlad-uh-meer koz-muh] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˈkɒz mə/ (Show IPA), 1889–1982, U.S. physicist, engineer, and inventor, born in Russia: known as the “father of television.”.
- zymogram — a band of electrophoretic medium showing a pattern of enzymes following electrophoresis