9-Letter Words Containing Z

Lazulite

Lazurite

Couch potato (wordplay)

Person prone to proneness (wordplay)

Idler (colloq.)

Like gambling in Nevada

""LEGALIZE to make lawful, also LEGALISE""

Legalize

""Any shrubby or herbaceous plant of the genus Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.""

Make straight

Lionizer

Lionize

To render liquid.

Confined to one area

Localize

Logicize

Logicize

LUTEIN a yellow pigment

Lyricize

Lyricize

Lysozyme

Machzor

Stores periodically issued (wordplay)

People Time and Money

Waiting room supply

Make attractive, in a way

Make attractive

Make attractive gent out, wearing yellow (wordplay)

Flowering shrub of western U. S.

Californian species of bearberry

Chaparral shrub

Stain in a way.

To make a martyr of.

Marzipan

Got everything from

""MAXIMIZE to make as great as possible, also MAXIMISE""

Makes as big as possible, as a computer window

A spore-producing organ of certain lichens

Mazourka

Replace personnel with robots

""A whitish crystalline powder, C 25 H 27 ClN 2 , used to treat nausea and motion sickness.""

Number on a dial

Unit of frequency

MHz in full

Melanize

Melanize

Emulated Harry Warren

Wrote a song

""MELODIZE to compose a melody, also MELODISE""

Composes beautifully

Composes.

Learned by rote

A person who learns by rote.

Learns by heart

Learns by remembering

Treat (cotton) with alkali for strength and lustre

""A form of spore, usually elongate or falciform, and somewhat amoeboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite.""

Make spellbound

Spellbind

Fascinate

Mestizo

Gilt, perhaps

Metalize

To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal.

Metazoan

""To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. as, to methodize one's work or thoughts.""

METRIC a standard of measurement

Mezereon

Mezereum

Mezquite

Floor between first and second

Level in the theater

Neither orchestra nor balcony

Art method used by M.C. Escher

Copper engraving.

Engraving showing singer in her true colours (wordplay)

""MICRON a unit of length, also MIKRON""

Double-clicked a window, perhaps

Explained away

One saying "It's really no big deal," maybe

Belittler

Plays down

Misprize

Misprize

Mustard

Marshals troops

Bring up to date

Update

Remodel

Monazite

Monetize

Converts to currency

Coarse-grained igneous rock

Lectured about the value of virtue

Gave a sermon

One giving sermons

Moralize

Motorize

Motorize

Mozzetta

MULTISIZE

MUTUAL shared in common

Hazy or dazed feeling

MYTHIC {mythical=adj}

Induce stupor

Nasalize

Nasalize

Nazify

Nebulize

Mist-producing drug-delivery machine

Nebulize

Nizamate

Inflected form of FROZEN Inflected form of FROZE freeze

""To make normal; as, to normalize relations with China.as, to normalize relations with China.""

Notarize

Certifies, in a way

Makes official

Novelize

Novelize

Obelize

Odorize

Opsonize

Opsonize

Optimize

""OPTIMIZE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMISE""

Optimize

Kind of labor.

Emulated Obama, in his pre-Senate days

In apple-pie order

PalmPilot, for one

PDA, for example

Back-to-school purchase

Sorts out

Systematizes

""A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.""

Exclude from society

Banish from social favor.

Send to Coventry.

Outblaze

Outblaze

To surpass in dazzing.

Extra decoration on ceramic finish

Misuse a pastureland

What sheep and cows may do no more, a poet's said

Treasure too highly

Like most theater popcorn containers

Too big for comfort

Like a wide load

Such as XL and I zero in on nameless poetry

Overzeal

Oxazepam

Oxidizer

Oxidize

""A waxlike mineral resin; sometimes called native paraffin, and mineral wax. native paraffin, and mineral wax.""

""A yellow-brown to black or green hydrocarbon wax, found in irregular veins in sandstones and used in making electrical insulation and polishes.""

Ozonate

""The act of treating with ozone; also, the act of converting into, or producing, ozone; ozonization.""

Ozonise

Ozonizer

Ozonize

Paganize

""PAGANIZE to make irreligious, also PAGANISE""

Paganize

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

Flash mob (wordplay)

Some shooting stars (wordplay)

Photographers who pursue celebrities

Shutterbug who bugs

Celeb stalker

Shot taker

Immobilized

""PARALYZE to render incapable of movement, also PARALYSE""

Paralyze

Parazoan

Partizan

Patinize

Patinize

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Impoverish.

PEARL to adorn with a milky-white concretion of nacre

Pectize

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

Docked

Puts in a box, maybe

Puts in a box, perhaps

Subjects to punishment

Peptizer

Peptize

Petuntze

""A yellow crystalline compound, C 6 H 4 N 2 C 6 H 4 , used in the manufacture of dyes.""

Phenazin

English word

To picture.

PIDGIN a mixed language

Adjective meaning resembling

Spots for slices

Neighborhood eateries

Pasta centers

Abbr. pizz. Played by plucking rather than bowing the strings.

To be plucked with the fingers (music)

To be plucked (musical)

In music, to be played by plucking

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Make sibilant, perhaps

""PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Poetizer

Poetize

Caused sharp divisions

In two distinct camps

Split into two camps

Turns a bear white (wordplay)

Sends to separate camps

More than just divides

Polemize

Polemize

Polyzoan

""Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.""

Pozzolan

""To freeze beforehand, pa t PREFROZE, pa p PREFROZEN""

Inflected form of FROZEN Inflected form of FROZE freeze

Sell state businesses

""Any one of a class of proteins that are converted, in the normal course of cellular metabolism, into one or more active enzymes; also called zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.""

To deliver a Prologue.

PROTOZOA the lowest and simplest of animals

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Animalcule

PUBLIC people as a whole

Grind into dust

Demolish

Pyrolize

Pyrolize

Pyrolyze

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Pyrolyze

Quantize

""QUANTIZE to express in terms of quanta, also QUANTISE""

Assigns specific values to

Hard metamorphic rock

Metamorphosed sandstone variety

Rock variety

""Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.""

Quatorze

Queazy

Quetzal

Questioning, look say

Questioning - teasing

Mildly perplexed

Racemize

Racemize

Arrange haphazardly

Kind of hog

Cager in Fayetteville

OR (wordplay)

Type of auk

Zorba, swimming in stream, finds bird

Black-and-white seabird

Realizer