14-letter words containing a, z, i, t
- specialization — the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
- stabilizer bar — a horizontal metal bar linking the two front suspension systems of an automobile, used to reduce swaying or rolling.
- stigmatization — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- straight razor — a razor having a stiff blade made of steel that is hinged to a handle into which it folds.
- structuralized — to form into or make part of a structure.
- subminiaturize — to design or manufacture (equipment, especially electronic equipment) of a greatly reduced scale.
- substantialize — to make or become substantial or actual
- substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
- synthesization — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
- tabularization — the act of tabularizing
- telomerization — polymerization in the presence of a chain transfer agent to yield a series of products of low molecular weight
- tenzing norgay — 1914–86, Nepalese mountaineer. With Sir Edmund Hillary, he was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1953)
- territorialize — to extend by adding new territory.
- testimonialize — to honor (someone) by giving or doing something testimonial.
- the archeozoic — the Archean (see phrase under Archean)
- the palaeozoic — the Palaeozoic era
- throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
- topicalization — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
- traditionalize — to make traditional: to traditionalize family reunions.
- transistorized — (of a device) equipped with a transistor
- transparentize — to make transparent
- trapeze artist — a person who performs, especially professionally, on a trapeze.
- trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
- traumatization — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- triple glazing — three layers of glass in windows or doors
- trivialization — to make trivial; cause to appear unimportant, trifling, etc.
- ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
- unacclimatized — not acclimatized, accustomed, or adapted to
- unappetizingly — in an unappetizing manner
- unchristianize — to make unchristian; to render no longer Christian; to remove Christian status or nature from
- uncriticizable — to censure or find fault with.
- uncrystallized — lacking a final form
- uniformization — to bring into uniformity.
- unmaterialized — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- unrationalized — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- unromanticized — not romantic
- unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
- unstandardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
- unsystematized — not systematized or arranged in a system
- utilitarianize — to make utilitarian
- vietnamization — a U.S. policy during the Vietnam War of giving the South Vietnamese government responsibility for carrying on the war, so as to allow for the withdrawal of American troops.
- volatilization — to become volatile; pass off as vapor.
- weatherization — (US) The process of weatherizing.
- westernization — The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
- zodiacal light — a luminous tract in the sky, seen in the west after sunset or in the east before sunrise and thought to be the light reflected from a cloud of meteoric matter revolving round the sun.
- zoroastrianism — an Iranian religion, founded c600 b.c. by Zoroaster, the principal beliefs of which are in the existence of a supreme deity, Ahura Mazda, and in a cosmic struggle between a spirit of good, Spenta Mainyu, and a spirit of evil, Angra Mainyu.
- zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
- zygomatic arch — the bony arch at the outer border of the eye socket, formed by the union of the cheekbone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.
- zygomatic bone — a bone on each side of the face below the eye, forming the prominence of the cheek; cheekbone.