9-letter words containing z
- cool jazz — a restrained, fluid modern-jazz style of the 1950s, marked by intricate harmonic structures, de-emphasized dynamics, and carefully controlled phrasing and ensemble playing, often with a slight lagging behind the beat. Also called West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , hard bop, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- coprozoic — (of animals) living in dung
- cosmetize — to cosmeticize.
- courtezan — Alternative spelling of courtesan.
- cozenages — Plural form of cozenage.
- craziness — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- crazy top — a disease of cotton, corn, etc., characterized by abnormal branching and small, misshapen leaves in the upper part of the plant, caused by water shortage, organic deficiencies in the soil, or unknown causes.
- crazyweed — locoweed
- credenzas — Plural form of credenza.
- creolized — (of a language) incorporating a considerable range of features from one or more unrelated languages, as the result of contact between language communities
- cretinize — to cause (a person) to be a cretin or cretinous
- criticize — If you criticize someone or something, you express your disapproval of them by saying what you think is wrong with them.
- cruz alta — a city in S Brazil.
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- customize — If you customize something, you change its appearance or features to suit your tastes or needs.
- cutinized — Simple past tense and past participle of cutinize.
- cyberzine — (computing) A magazine published on the Internet.
- cyclizine — an antihistamine drug used to relieve the symptoms of motion sickness and vertigo
- d-horizon — a stratum, as of rock, sometimes underlying the C-horizon
- daemonize — Demonize.
- dazedness — the condition of being dazed
- de-ionize — to remove ions from (water, etc), esp by ion exchange
- dead zone — an area of water that cannot support marine life, being virtually devoid of oxygen due to the presence of nitrates that stimulate algae growth
- deaminize — deaminate
- debianize — (Debian) To take a source package and make the necessary modifications to allow it to be built as a policy compliant Debian package.
- defrizzed — Simple past tense and past participle of defrizz.
- deglazing — Present participle of deglaze.
- deionized — to remove ions from.
- deionizer — A device that deionizes something.
- deionizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deionize.
- democrazy — A democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity.
- demonized — Simple past tense and past participle of demonize.
- demonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demonize.
- dentalize — to change into or pronounce as a dental sound.
- deodorize — If you deodorize something, you remove unpleasant smells from it.
- deoxidize — to remove oxygen atoms from (a compound, molecule, etc)
- derzhavin — Gavril Romanovich [gah-vril roh-mah-nuh-vich;; Russian guh-vryil ruh-mah-nuh-vyich] /gɑˈvrɪl roʊˈmɑ nə vɪtʃ;; Russian gəˈvryɪl rəˈmɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1743–1816, Russian poet.
- desk-size — of a size suitable for use on a desk: a desk-size dictionary.
- despotize — To behave like a despot.
- diabolize — to make (someone or something) diabolical
- dialogize — to carry on a dialogue
- dialyzate — the remaining, or colloidal, portion of a solution.
- dialyzing — to subject to dialysis; separate or procure by dialysis.
- diazeutic — Alternative form of diazeuctic.
- diazeuxis — the separation of two tetrachords by the interval of a tone
- diazonium — of, consisting of, or containing the group, Ar-N:N-, where Ar is an aryl group
- diazotize — to cause (an aryl amine) to react with nitrous acid to produce a diazonium salt
- diazotype — a print produced by the diazo process.
- diazoxide — a substance, C 8 H 7 ClN 2 O 2 S, having potent antihypertensive action and used to reduce blood pressure in hypertensive crisis.
- dieselize — to equip with diesel machinery.