8-letter words containing z
- booze up — any alcoholic beverage; whiskey.
- booze-up — In Britain, a booze-up is a party or other social gathering where people drink a lot of alcohol.
- borazine — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- borazole — a colorless liquid, B 3 N 3 H 6 , that hydrolyzes with water to form boron hydrides. It is the inorganic analogue of benzene with similar physical properties.
- botanize — to collect or study plants
- bouzouki — a Greek long-necked stringed musical instrument related to the mandolin
- bozcaada — Turkish island in the Aegean, near the Dardanelles: 15 sq mi (39 sq km): in Greek legend, as Tenedos, the base of the Greek fleet in the Trojan War
- bozzaris — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), 1788?–1823, Greek patriot.
- bozzetto — a small model for a planned sculpture or a small sketch for a planned painting
- brazenly — shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.
- brazenry — the quality of being brazen or an example of brazenness
- brazers' — to unite (metal objects) at high temperatures by applying any of various nonferrous solders.
- brazilin — a pale yellow soluble crystalline solid, turning red in alkaline solution, extracted from brazil wood and sappanwood and used in dyeing and as an indicator. Formula: C16H14O5
- breezily — abounding in breezes; windy.
- breezing — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich (lɪaˈnit ˈilitʃ). 1906–82, Soviet statesman; president of the Soviet Union (1977–82); general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1964–82)
- bronzify — to make into bronze
- bronzing — blue pigment producing a metallic lustre when ground into paint media at fairly high concentrations
- bronzino — Il, real name Agnolo di Cosimo. 1503–72, Florentine mannerist painter
- bronzite — a type of orthopyroxene often having a metallic or pearly sheen
- brunizem — a type of dark prairie soil
- bryozoan — any aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Bryozoa, forming colonies of polyps each having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore)
- bugzilla — (programming) The web-based bug tracking system used by the Mozilla project.
- bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
- burdizzo — a surgical instrument used to castrate animals
- buzkashi — a game played in Afghanistan, in which opposing teams of horsemen strive for possession of the headless carcass of a goat
- buzz cut — A buzz cut is hairstyle in which the hair is cut very close to the head.
- buzz off — If someone buzzes off, they go away. People sometimes say buzz off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
- buzz saw — a power-operated circular saw
- buzz-cut — crew cut.
- buzz-saw — a power-operated circular saw, so named because of the noise it makes.
- buzzbait — a fishing lure with small blades that stir the water
- buzzkill — someone or something that stops people from enjoying themselves
- buzzword — A buzzword is a word or expression that has become fashionable in a particular field and is being used a lot by the media.
- cadenzas — Plural form of cadenza.
- calabaza — any of several species of gourd of the genus Cucurbita
- calorize — to coat (a ferrous metal) by spraying with aluminium powder and then heating
- calzaghe — Joe. born 1972, Welsh boxer: won all 46 of his professional fights (1993–2008); world champion in the super middleweight and light heavyweight divisions
- calzones — Plural form of calzone.
- canalize — to provide with or convert into a canal or canals
- canonize — If a dead person is canonized, it is officially announced by the Catholic Church that he or she is a saint.
- canzonas — Plural form of canzona.
- canzones — Plural form of canzone.
- canzonet — a short, sprightly song
- caponize — to make (a cock) into a capon
- capsized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsize.
- capsizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsize.
- carranza — Venustiano [be-noos-tyah-naw] /ˌbɛ nusˈtyɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1859–1920, Mexican revolutionary and political leader: president 1915–20.
- castizos — Plural form of castizo.
- catalyze — If something catalyzes a thing or a situation, it makes it active.