11-letter words containing a, z, o
- officialize — to make official; place under official authority or control.
- optimizable — Capable of being optimized.
- organizable — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- orientalize — Alternative capitalization of Orientalize.
- ostracizing — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracize.
- Ötztal alps — division of the E Alps, along the Austrian-Italian border: highest peak, 12,379 ft (3,773 m)
- outdazzling — Present participle of outdazzles.
- outorganize — to overcome by organization
- overanalyze — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- overgrazing — to graze (land) to excess.
- overzealous — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- oxidization — the process or result of oxidizing.
- ozone layer — Meteorology. the layer of the upper atmosphere where most atmospheric ozone is concentrated, from about 8 to 30 miles (12 to 48 km) above the earth, with the maximum ozone concentration occurring at an altitude of about 12 miles (19 km).
- pantheonize — to place, especially to bury, in a pantheon: The author will be pantheonized following the funeral mass.
- parfocalize — to make parfocal
- pastoralize — to make pastoral or rural.
- pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
- patronizing — displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner: a patronizing greeting, accompanied by a gentle pat on the pack.
- pentazocine — a synthetic narcotic analgesic, C 1 9 H 2 7 NO, used chiefly for the relief of moderate to severe pain.
- personalize — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- phagocytize — (of a phagocyte) to devour (material).
- phanerozoic — the eon comprising the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.
- phosphatize — to treat with phosphates.
- plaza lasso — Galo [gah-law] /ˈgɑ lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–87, Ecuadorian statesman and diplomat, born in the U.S.: president 1948–52.
- polarizable — to cause polarization in.
- polyzoarium — a bryozoan colony, or its supporting skeleton.
- prodigalize — to spend lavishly
- proletarize — to proletarianize.
- quinazoline — a colorless, crystalline, heterocyclic compound, C 8 H 6 N 2 .
- quizzacious — (nonce, obsolete) Mocking or satirical.
- rationalize — 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.
- razor blade — a sharp-edged metal blade for use in a razor.
- razor shell — any of various sand-burrowing bivalve molluscs of the genera Ensis and Solen, which have a long tubular shell
- razor-edged — having an extremely sharp edge or blade
- razor-sharp — blade, etc.: dangerously sharp
- realization — the making or being made real of something imagined, planned, etc.
- reauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- regionalize — to divide or organize into regions for administrative purposes
- renormalize — to normalize again, to cause to conform to norms or a normal state again
- reorganizer — a person who reorganizes
- repatronize — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- resocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
- rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
- romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rose quartz — a rose-red to pink variety of crystalline quartz usually found in massive form and used as a gem or ornamental stone.
- safety zone — A safety zone is a place in the middle of a road crossing where you can wait before you cross the other half of the road.
- san lorenzo — a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage