9-letter words containing z
- jazzed-up — made more exciting and more modern
- jazzfests — Plural form of jazzfest.
- jazziness — The state, quality or property of being jazzy.
- jazzwoman — a female jazz musician.
- jazzwomen — Plural form of jazzwoman.
- jesuitize — to make Jesuitic
- jumboized — Simple past tense and past participle of jumboize.
- kaczynski — Lech. 1949–2010, Polish politician, president of Poland (2005–10)
- kala-azar — a chronic, usually fatal disease occurring in tropical areas of Asia and the Western Hemisphere, characterized by irregular fever, enlargement of the spleen, anemia, and emaciation, caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani.
- kalamazoo — a city in SW Michigan.
- kamikazes — Plural form of kamikaze.
- kaolinize — to convert (minerals containing kaolinite) into kaolin by weathering.
- kazatskes — a lively, Slavic folk dance for a solo male dancer, marked especially by the prisiadka.
- kazillion — (slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
- khodzhent — a city in N Tajikistan on the Syr Darya.
- khudzhand — a city in NW Tajikistan, on the Syr Darya River.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- kibbitzed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibbitz.
- kibbutzim — A communal settlement in Israel, typically a farm.
- kibitzers — Plural form of kibitzer.
- kibitzing — to act as a kibitzer.
- kilohertz — a unit of frequency, equal to 1000 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kHz.
- king-size — larger or longer than the usual size.
- kirghizia — a republic in central Asia, S of Kazakhstan and N of Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan). 76,460 sq. mi. (198,500 sq. km). Capital: Bishkek.
- kitzbühel — a town in W Austria, in the Tirol: centre for winter sports. Pop: 8574 (2001)
- kizil kum — Kyzyl Kum.
- kolkhozes — Plural form of kolkhoz.
- kolozsvar — Hungarian name of Cluj-Napoca.
- kong fuzi — K'ung Fu-tzŭ.
- korzybski — Alfred (Habdank Skarbek) [hab-dangk skahr-bek;; Polish hahp-dahngk skahr-bek] /ˈhæb dæŋk ˈskɑr bɛk;; Polish ˈhɑp dɑŋk ˈskɑr bɛk/ (Show IPA), 1879–1950, U.S. writer on general semantics, born in Poland.
- kozhikode — a city in W Kerala, in SW India.
- kreutzers — Plural form of kreutzer.
- krummholz — a forest of stunted trees near the timber line on a mountain.
- kyzyl kum — a desert in S Asia, SE of the Aral Sea, in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. About 90,000 sq. mi. (233,100 sq. km).
- kzyl-orda — a city in S Kazakhstan, on the Syr Darya.
- la spezia — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Ligurian Sea: naval base.
- labialize — to give a labial character to (a sound), for example, to round (a vowel).
- laicizing — Present participle of laicize.
- lanzarote — the most easterly of the Canary Islands; mountainous, with a volcanic landscape; tourism, fishing. Pop: 109 942 (2002 est). Area: 795 sq km (307 sq miles)
- latinized — (nonstandard) Incorrect capitalisation of Latinize. Simple past tense and past participle of latinize.
- laymanize — to simplify (technical information) into a form that can be understood by ordinary people
- lazarette — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
- lazaretto — a hospital for those affected with contagious diseases, especially leprosy.
- lazy list — A list which is built using a non-strict constructor. Any head or tail of the list may be an unevaluated closure. Also known as streams since they may be used to carry a sequence of values from the output of one function to an input of another. See also Lazy evaluation.
- lazybones — a lazy person.
- lazzarone — One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; beggars.
- legalized — Simple past tense and past participle of legalize.
- legalizer — That which makes legal.
- legalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of legalize.