13-letter words containing a, z, l, o
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- racialization — to impose a racial interpretation on; place in a racial context.
- radialization — the act of forming or arranging in a radial pattern
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- renationalize — to move (an industry, which was once under government ownership,) from private to government ownership once again
- reutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- ritualization — the act of ritualizing.
- sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
- sacralization — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- sectionalized — divided into sections
- serialization — to publish in serial form.
- sexualization — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
- signalization — to make notable or conspicuous.
- socialization — a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.
- solemnization — to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
- stabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
- sterilization — the act of sterilizing.
- stolonization — the production of stolons.
- sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
- sulfisoxazole — a white to yellowish, crystalline, slightly bitter sulfonamide, C 1 1 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 S, used chiefly in the treatment of infections of the urinary tract.
- symbolization — the act or process of symbolizing.
- syphilization — the act of syphilizing
- tantalization — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- the paleozoic — the Paleozoic Era or its rocks
- thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
- tropical zone — Torrid Zone
- tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.
- unapologizing — not apologetic; not willing to apologize or to make an apology
- unmetabolized — not metabolized
- unpolarizable — not capable of being polarized
- uralitization — the change of a crystalline silicate mineral to amphibole (one of a group of structurally similar minerals including calcium, sodium and magnesium)
- vacuolization — the state of being full of vacuoles
- vandalization — an act of vandalizing
- verbalization — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- vernalization — to shorten the growth period of (a plant) by chilling or other special treatment of it, its seeds, or its bulbs.
- villagization — the transfer of land to village control.
- visualization — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- vulcanization — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- vulgarization — to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase: to vulgarize standards of behavior.
- zero altitude — the height at which the atmospheric pressure is 610.5Pa
- zone-leaching — A horizon.
- zooflagellate — any flagellated protozoan that lacks photosynthetic pigment and feeds on organic matter: often parasitic.
- zooplanktonic — Of or pertaining to zooplankton.
- zooxanthellae — any of various symbiotic yellow-green or yellow–brown algae in the cytoplasm of certain radiolarians and marine invertebrates.
- zygapophyseal — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.
- zygodactylous — Also, zygodactylous. (of a bird) having the toes of each foot arranged in pairs, with two toes in front and two behind.
- zymotechnical — relating to the technology of fermentation