12-letter words containing a, t, o, z
- diazomethane — a yellow odourless explosive gas, used as a methylating agent. Formula: CH2:N:N
- digitization — to convert (data) to digital form for use in a computer.
- dimerization — (chemistry) Any chemical reaction in which two monomers react to form a dimer.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- divinization — The act or process of making divine.
- editorialize — to set forth one's position or opinion on some subject in, or as if in, an editorial.
- emblazonment — The act of emblazoning.
- embolization — (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
- emotionalize — To give something an emotional quality.
- energization — The act (or state) of being energized.
- equalization — The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.
- eternization — The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.
- etherization — (surgery) anaesthetization using ether.
- factionalize — (especially of a political party or other organized group) split or divide into factions.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- faradization — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
- feminization — The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fictionalize — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- finalization — to put into final form; complete all the details of.
- fluidization — The act or process of fluidizing.
- focalization — (optics) Putting into focus.
- frantz fanon — Frantz (Omar) [frants oh-mahr;; French frahnts aw-mar] /frænts ˈoʊ mɑr;; French frɑ̃ts ɔˈmar/ (Show IPA), 1925–61, West Indian psychiatrist and political theorist, born in Martinique; in Algeria after 1953.
- generation z — members of the generation of people born since the mid-1990s who are seen as confident users of new technology
- hazelnut oil — an oil extracted from hazelnuts and used mostly in cooking
- hematochezia — the passage of bloody stools.
- hepatization — the transformation of tissue into a liver-like substance, esp of the lungs in pneumonia
- hominization — the evolution of the human traits that set the genus Homo apart from its primate ancestors.
- horizontally — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- hospitalized — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hospitalize.
- humanization — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- hypostatized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypostatize.
- idealization — the act or process of idealizing something.
- immortalized — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- immortalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immortalize.
- immunization — the fact or process of becoming immune, as against a disease.
- iodized salt — common table salt to which a small amount of sodium iodide or potassium iodide has been added
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- ketoconazole — a synthetic substance, C 26 H 28 Cl 2 N 4 O 4 , used to treat a variety of fungal infections.
- labilization — to cause to become labile.
- laparotomize — to perform a laparotomy on.
- laterization — the weathering process by which rock is changed to laterite.
- latinization — to cause to conform to the customs, traditions, beliefs, etc., of the Latins or the Latin Church.
- legalization — to make legal; authorize.
- localization — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- lopez mateos — Adolfo [ah-th awl-faw] /ɑˈðɔl fɔ/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Mexican lawyer and politician: president of Mexico 1958–64.
- lyophilizate — A lyophilizate is a freeze-dried product.
- maderization — the process whereby wine is heated and oxidized, resulting in a darker colour and an altered taste