12-letter words containing a, r, o, z
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- stabilizator — a stabilizer
- stara zagora — a city in central Bulgaria.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- tangier zone — a former internationalized zone on the Strait of Gibraltar: became a part of Morocco 1956. Compare Morocco (def 1).
- tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
- theorization — to form a theory or theories.
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- to a frazzle — absolutely; completely (esp in the phrase burnt to a frazzle)
- topaz quartz — citrine (def 2).
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- underzealous — full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent. Synonyms: enthusiastic, eager, fervid, fervent, intense, passionate, warm. Antonyms: apathetic; lackadaisical.
- unformalized — not formalized
- unglamorized — not glamorized
- unharmonized — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- unmoralizing — not moralizing
- unnormalized — to make normal.
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- urbanization — the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city: Urbanization has led to more air pollution and increasing childhood asthma.
- valorization — 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.
- vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- virilization — the development of adult male physical characteristics in a female or a young boy
- zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.
- zero grazing — a type of dairy farming in which the cattle are fed with cut grass
- zero tillage — no-tillage.
- zielona gora — a city in W Poland.
- zillionaires — Plural form of zillionaire.
- zone therapy — a type of massage which works on the theory that specific parts of the foot or palm of the hand are associated with different parts of the body, and that massaging the feet or hands will give the patient relief from disorders in the related part of the body
- zoochlorella — any of various symbiotic green algae in the cytoplasm of certain freshwater invertebrates, as stentors and hydras.
- zoogeography — the science dealing with the geographical distribution of animals.
- zoosporangia — Plural form of zoosporangium.
- zorn's lemma — a theorem of set theory that if every totally ordered subset of a nonempty partially ordered set has an upper bound, then there is an element in the set such that the set contains no element greater than the specified given element.
- zuse, konrad — Konrad Zuse