15-letter words containing a, z, l
- denormalization — to make normal.
- departmentalize — to organize into departments, esp excessively
- depersonalizing — Present participle of depersonalize.
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
- deserialization — The act or process of deserializing.
- desexualization — The act or process of desexualizing.
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- desocialization — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
- diagonalization — (in linear algebra) the process of diagonalizing
- digital citizen — a person who develops the skills and knowledge to effectively use the Internet and other digital technology, especially in order to participate responsibly in social and civic activities: We're teaching students how to become good digital citizens.
- encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
- endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
- etherealization — The act or process of etherealizing.
- experimentalize — (transitive) To make experiments upon.
- externalization — A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
- familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- formularization — The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
- fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
- galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
- gas-guzzler tax — a tax imposed on the purchase price of an automobile not meeting fuel efficiency standards.
- generalizations — Plural form of generalization.
- girlie magazine — soft porn magazine
- glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
- governmentalize — (US) To bring a private entity under government control; to nationalize.
- grant's gazelle — a large gazelle, Gazella granti, with distinctive long curved horns, native to the eastern African plains.
- granulitization — the process whereby metamorphism acts on a rock and reduces it to crystalline grains
- gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
- hazard analysis — risk assessment
- horizontal well — A horizontal well is a well which has sections that have been drilled at more than 80 degrees from the vertical in order to penetrate a greater length of the reservoir.
- hospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
- hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
- hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
- hypnotizability — to put in the hypnotic state.
- idealized image — a personal standard of perfection against which one's actual thinking, behavior, and appearance are compared.
- immaterializing — Present participle of immaterialize.
- immortalization — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- individualizing — Present participle of individualize.
- industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
- infantilization — The act or process of infantilizing, or treating a non-infant as an infant.
- intellectualize — to seek or consider the rational content or form of.
- internalization — to incorporate (the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group), as through learning, socialization, or identification.
- intrazonal soil — a soil that has a well-developed profile determined by relief, parent material, age, etc
- jaques-dalcroze — Émile [French ey-meel] /French eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1865–1950, Swiss composer and teacher: created eurythmics.
- juan de la cruz — San [sahn] /sɑn/ (Show IPA), John of the Cross, Saint.
- laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
- lazaro cardenas — Lázaro [lah-sah-raw] /ˈlɑ sɑˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1970, Mexican general and political reformer: president 1934–40.