17-letter words containing a, z, n
- self-aggrandizing — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
- spanish influenza — the pandemic respiratory infection that spread throughout the world during 1917–18.
- spenserian stanza — the stanza used by Spenser in his Faerie Queene and employed since by other poets, consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines and a final Alexandrine, with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc.
- theatricalization — to put into dramatic or theatrical form; dramatize.
- thomson's gazelle — a medium-sized antelope, Gazella thomsoni, abundant on the grassy steppes and dry bush of the East African plains.
- transcendentalize — to cause to become transcendent.
- unrealized losses — Unrealized losses are losses from the decrease in value of an asset that you still own.
- vernacularization — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
- vibrofluidization — Vibrofluidization is when vibration is used to make particles move in a fluidized bed.
- with guns blazing — If you come out with guns blazing or with all guns blazing, you put all your effort and energy into trying to achieve something.
- yuzhno-sakhalinsk — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on S Sakhalin Island.
- zola technologies — (company) Producers of the Z simulation language.
- zonal pelargonium — a pelargonium whose leaves are marked with concentric circles of a different colour to the rest of the leaf
- zone of avoidance — the area of the sky in the plane of the Milky Way where interstellar dust obscures visible light so that no distant galaxies can be observed.
- zoological garden — zoo (def 1).