8-letter words containing a, z, u
- outblaze — to blaze more than or hotter than
- puzzolan — pozzolana.
- quantize — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quanzhou — a seaport in SE Fujian province, in SE China, on Taiwan Strait.
- quartzes — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quatorze — a set of four cards of the same denomination, aces, kings, queens, jacks, or tens, scoring 14 points.
- quetzals — Plural form of quetzal.
- reduzate — a sediment that has not undergone oxidation, as of coal, oil, sulfur, and sulfides.
- rio azul — an archaeological site in the jungles of northern Guatemala, where a 1500-year-old painted Mayan tomb was discovered intact in 1984.
- ruralize — to make rural.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- scuzzbag — a despicable or unethical person
- shizuoka — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan, on Suruga Bay.
- spaz out — an awkward or clumsy person.
- 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.
- szechuan — Sichuan.
- unamazed — not greatly surprised or astonished
- undazzle — to recover from a daze
- ungazing — not gazing
- unglazed — having a surface covered with a glaze; lustrous; smooth; glassy.
- ungrazed — (of pasture, etc) not grazed
- urbanize — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
- veracruz — a state in E Mexico, on the Gulf of Mexico. 27,759 sq. mi. (71,895 sq. km). Capital: Jalapa.
- vuvuzela — South African. a long, plastic horn that makes a loud, monotone sound, typically blown by South African fans at soccer matches.
- yangzhou — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- yokozuna — A grand champion sumo wrestler.
- zaibatsu — a great industrial or financial combination of Japan.
- zarzuela — a Spanish opera having spoken dialogue and often a satirically treated, topical theme.
- zastruga — sastruga.
- zastrugi — sastruga.
- zhuangzi — Chuang-tzu.
- ziggurat — (among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces.
- zikkurat — Alternative spelling of ziggurat.
- 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.
- zugzwang — a situation in which a player is limited to moves that cost pieces or have a damaging positional effect.
- zukerman — Pinchas [ping-kuh s] /ˈpɪŋ kəs/ (Show IPA), born 1948, Israeli violinist, violist, and orchestral conductor.
- zululand — a territory in NE Natal, in the Republic of South Africa.
- zurbaran — Francisco de [frahn-thees-kaw th e,, -sees-] /frɑnˈθis kɔ ðɛ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), 1598–1663? Spanish painter.