14-letter words containing z, e, r, o
- electric razor — an electrically powered implement for shaving, having reciprocating or rotating blades behind a fine metal comb or pierced foil
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- erogenous zone — a part of the body that is sensitive to sexual stimulation
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- fraternization — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- free-fire zone — an area in which military units have prior clearance to fire at will on any person or object encountered.
- freeze (on) to — to cling to; hold fast to
- freezing point — the temperature at which a liquid freezes: The freezing point of water is 32°F, 0°C.
- freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
- frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
- frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
- generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
- geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
- grangerization — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
- guido d'arezzo — (Guido Aretinus"Fra Guittone") c995–1049? Italian monk and music theorist: reformer of musical notation.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
- heterozygosity — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
- hydroxybenzene — phenol (def 1).
- hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
- hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
- immiserization — the process of immiserizing
- impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
- journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
- keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
- lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
- lemon squeezer — tool for extracting juice from lemons
- leopard lizard — any long-tailed lizard of the genus Gambelia, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having the body marked with spots and bars of dark or light brown or black.
- liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
- literalization — The act or process of literalizing.
- louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
- melodramatized — Simple past tense and past participle of melodramatize.
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosize — (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
- mineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- misrecognizing — Present participle of misrecognize.
- moderate-sized — not large or small
- mongrelization — to subject (a breed, group, etc.) to crossbreeding, especially with one considered inferior.
- nephrectomized — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
- neutralization — the act, process, or an instance of neutralizing.