15-letter words containing z
- desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
- desensitization — the act or process of desensitizing.
- deserialization — The act or process of deserializing.
- desexualization — The act or process of desexualizing.
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- desocialization — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
- detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
- dezincification — removal of zinc.
- diagonalization — (in linear algebra) the process of diagonalizing
- dichlorobenzene — any of a group of three insoluble isomeric chemical compounds used in solvents, insecticides, and dyes
- dichotomization — The act of dichotomizing or the thing dichotomized; classification.
- digital citizen — a person who develops the skills and knowledge to effectively use the Internet and other digital technology, especially in order to participate responsibly in social and civic activities: We're teaching students how to become good digital citizens.
- dimethylbenzene — xylene.
- disillusionized — Simple past tense and past participle of disillusionize.
- disincentivized — Simple past tense and past participle of disincentivize.
- disorganization — a breaking up of order or system; disunion or disruption of constituent parts.
- dye sensitizing — the producing of panchromatic or orthochromatic film by treating it with an emulsion containing dyes that absorb light of all or certain colors.
- encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
- endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
- enterprise zone — An enterprise zone is an area, usually a depressed or inner-city area, where the government offers incentives in order to attract new businesses.
- etherealization — The act or process of etherealizing.
- experimentalize — (transitive) To make experiments upon.
- extemporization — The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
- extensivization — the process of (something) becoming more extensive, esp in agriculture
- exteriorization — The physical embodiment of an abstraction.
- externalization — A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
- familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- flowers of zinc — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
- formularization — The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
- fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
- franz ferdinand — Francis Ferdinand.
- franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
- free-trade zone — foreign-trade zone. free port (def 1). Abbreviation: FTZ.
- freeze-fracture — to prepare (material) for the electron microscope by freeze fracturing.
- frozen daiquiri — a cocktail consisting of rum, lemon or lime juice, and sugar, vigorously beaten together with finely crushed ice and served with a straw.
- frozen shoulder — joint stiffness at top of arm
- fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
- galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
- gas-guzzler tax — a tax imposed on the purchase price of an automobile not meeting fuel efficiency standards.
- gaudier-brzeska — Henri (ɑ̃ri), original name Henri Gaudier. 1891–1915, French vorticist sculptor
- generalizations — Plural form of generalization.
- giant schnauzer — one of a German breed of large working dogs, resembling a larger and more powerful version of the standard schnauzer, having a pepper-and-salt or pure black, wiry coat, bushy eyebrows and beard, and a docked tail set moderately high, originally developed as a cattle herder but now often used in police work.
- girlie magazine — soft porn magazine
- glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
- goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
- governmentalize — (US) To bring a private entity under government control; to nationalize.
- grant's gazelle — a large gazelle, Gazella granti, with distinctive long curved horns, native to the eastern African plains.