14-letter words containing a, r, o, z
- dispersal zone — a defined area in which any police or community support officer can force any group of two or more people to disperse for 24 hours
- dramatizations — Plural form of dramatization.
- easternization — (usually initial capital letter) to influence with ideas, customs, etc., characteristic of eastern Asia.
- editorializing — Present participle of editorialize.
- 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.
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- fraternization — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.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.
- generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
- geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
- glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
- grangerization — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
- 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.
- harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
- horizontal bar — on a bar chart
- horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
- hydrazoic acid — a colorless, very explosive, poisonous liquid, HN 3 , having a penetrating odor and irritating to the eyes and mucous membranes.
- immiserization — the process of immiserizing
- impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
- inorganization — lack of organization.
- journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
- journalization — to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.
- 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.
- 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.
- machado y ruiz — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1875–1939, Spanish writer.
- 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.
- militarization — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
- mineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- moderate-sized — not large or small
- modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- moisturization — The act or process of moisturizing.
- mongrelization — to subject (a breed, group, etc.) to crossbreeding, especially with one considered inferior.
- naturalization — to confer upon (an alien) the rights and privileges of a citizen.