8-letter words containing z, s
- subsizar — formerly, an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge who did not have to pay tuition fees but who instead helped in the kitchen or household of their college
- subzonal — located under a zona, esp under the zona of an ovum
- superzap — (tool, IBM) An IBM utility program used to quickly patch operating system or application program executable code in preference to editing the source code and recompiling. The SuperZAP program was a quick hack written by one IBM Engineer, possibly from IBM UK, in the late 1960s to directly fix executable files. He needed to fix a bug but it would have taken hours to rebuild the vast OS/360 executables. The S/360 architecture has an instruction ZAP (Zero and Add Packed) for packed decmial arithmetic, that sets the byte at a given address to a given value. Superzap used this to write data given as a string of hex digits to a given location in an executable file in a matter of seconds. Soon the IBM development labs were releasing all Programming Temporary Fixes (PTFs) to OS/360 in this form. OS/360 included a version called IMASPZAP or AMASPZAP which persisted through MVS, MVS/SP, MVS/XA, OS/390 and probably still remains in z/OS, the distant descendent of OS/360.
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- svizzera — Italian name of Switzerland.
- swizzled — a tall drink, originating in Barbados, composed of full-flavored West Indian rum, lime juice, crushed ice, and sugar: typically served with a swizzle stick.
- swizzler — a drunkard; a cheat
- szabadka — Hungarian name of Subotica.
- szczecin — a seaport in NW Poland: formerly in Germany.
- szechuan — Sichuan.
- szechwan — Sichuan.
- tristeza — a disease of certain citrus trees, characterized by yellowed leaves, wilting, and root destruction, caused by a virus.
- tsaritza — a czarina.
- tweezers — tweezers.
- tz'u hsi — 1835–1908, empress dowager of China: regent 1862–73, 1875–89, 1898–1908.
- uni-size — made to fit all sizes, types, weights, etc., within the ordinary range: unisize swimming trunks.
- unseized — not seized
- utilizes — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- volzhsky — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, near Volgograd on the Volga River.
- waltzers — Plural form of waltzer.
- warszawa — Polish name of Warsaw.
- wazzocks — Plural form of wazzock.
- z bosons — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.
- zaanstad — a port in the W Netherlands, in North Holland: formed (1974) from Zaandam, Koog a/d Zaan, Zaandijk, Wormerveer, Krommenie, Westzaan, and Assendelft; food and machinery industries. Pop: 139 000 (2003 est)
- zaharias — Mildred Didrikson [did-rik-suh n] /ˈdɪd rɪk sən/ (Show IPA), ("Babe") 1914–56, U.S. track-and-field athlete and golfer.
- zaibatsu — a great industrial or financial combination of Japan.
- zaniness — ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.
- zastruga — sastruga.
- zastrugi — sastruga.
- zatishye — former name of Elektrostal.
- zealants — Plural form of zealant.
- zealless — fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.
- zelkovas — Plural form of zelkova.
- zemstvos — Plural form of zemstvo.
- zephyrus — the west wind personified.
- zero-sum — of or denoting a system in which the sum of the gains equals the sum of the losses: a zero-sum economy.
- zestless — keen relish; hearty enjoyment; gusto.
- zetalisp — (language) The Maclisp dialect used on the LISP Machine. The many extensions to Maclisp include vectors, closures, flavors, stack groups, locatives, and invisible pointers. Currently supported by Lisp Machines, Inc. and Symbolics.
- zetetics — A historical branch of algebra concerned with the direct search for unknown quantities.
- zillions — Plural form of zillion.
- zincates — Plural form of zincate.
- zinester — One who compiles and publishes a zine.
- zionists — Plural form of zionist.
- zip disc — Zip Drive
- zip disk — Zip Drive
- zippiest — Superlative form of zippy.
- ziusudra — a legendary Sumerian king who built a boat in which to escape the Deluge.
- zlatoust — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, in the Ural Mountains.
- zombiism — the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose. the supernatural force itself.
- zoneless — any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established: The decisions were formulated in a zone of uncertainty. The temperature lies outside the danger zone.