8-letter words containing z, e, r
- solarize — Photography. to reverse (an image) partially, as from negative to positive, by exposure to light during development.
- sororize — to socialize in a sisterly way
- spritzer — a tall drink made with chilled wine and soda.
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- strelitz — a Russian soldier armed with firearms in the 16th and 17th centuries
- sub-zero — indicating or recording lower than zero on some scale, especially on the Fahrenheit scale: a week of sub-zero temperatures.
- suberize — to convert into cork tissue.
- 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.
- swizzler — a drunkard; a cheat
- terrazzo — a mosaic flooring or paving composed of chips of broken stone, usually marble, and cement, polished when in place.
- terzetta — a set of three rhyming lines
- terzetto — a trio, esp a vocal one
- theorize — to form a theory or theories.
- trapezia — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- triazine — any of a group of three compounds containing three nitrogen and three carbon atoms arranged in a six-membered ring and having the formula C 3 H 3 N 3 .
- triazole — any of a group of four compounds containing three nitrogen and two carbon atoms arranged in a five-membered ring and having the formula C 2 H 3 N 3 .
- tristeza — a disease of certain citrus trees, characterized by yellowed leaves, wilting, and root destruction, caused by a virus.
- tutorize — to tutor or instruct (a person)
- tweezers — tweezers.
- tzarevna — a daughter of a czar.
- unfreeze — to cause to thaw; melt.
- ungrazed — (of pasture, etc) not grazed
- unitizer — a person or thing that arranges units into batches
- unprized — not treasured or valued
- urbanize — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
- utilizer — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- valorize — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- vaporize — to cause to change into vapor.
- velarize — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- veracruz — a state in E Mexico, on the Gulf of Mexico. 27,759 sq. mi. (71,895 sq. km). Capital: Jalapa.
- vernazza — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- virilize — (of medicines, drugs, etc) to cause male characteristics such as a deep voice and facial hair to appear in (a female); to masculinize
- voronezh — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe.
- waltzers — Plural form of waltzer.
- war zone — (during wartime) a combat area in which the rights of neutrals are suspended, as such an area on the high seas, where ships flying a neutral flag are subject to attack.
- wurtzite — a dimorph of sphalerite, zinc sulfide, ZnS, similar in structure to greenockite and brownish-black in color.
- yahrzeit — the anniversary of the death of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse, observed by lighting a memorial lamp or candle the night before and reciting the Kaddish at the evening service of the day before and at the morning and afternoon services of the day itself.
- yarovize — to vernalize.
- z-buffer — (graphics) An array used to store the maximum Z coordinate of any feature plotted at a given (X, Y) location on the screen, used for hidden line removal in a 2D rendering of a 3D scene. The Z axis is perpendicular to the screen with values increasing toward the viewer so that any point whose Z coordinate is less than the corresponding Z-buffer value will be hidden behind some feature which has already been plotted.
- zaratite — a mineral, hydrated basic nickel carbonate, occurring in the form of emerald-green incrustations on chromite and magnetite.
- zarzuela — a Spanish opera having spoken dialogue and often a satirically treated, topical theme.
- zealotry — undue or excessive zeal; fanaticism.
- zebrinny — the offspring of a male horse and a female zebra
- zelatrix — a nun who monitors the behaviour of younger nuns
- zemindar — (in British India) a landlord required to pay a land tax to the government.
- 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.
- zeroized — Simple past tense and past participle of zeroize.