12-letter words containing a, z, o
- quiz program — a radio or television program in which contestants compete, often for prizes, by answering questions.
- racemization — the conversion of an optically active substance into an optically inactive mixture of equal amounts of the dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms.
- re-authorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- recategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- recognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognizance — Law. a bond or obligation of record entered into before a court of record or a magistrate, binding a person to do a particular act. the sum pledged as surety on such a bond.
- repopularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- rhizocarpous — having the root perennial but the stem annual, as perennial herbs.
- rhizophagous — feeding on roots.
- robotization — the introduction of robots to carry out industrial tasks
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- ruralization — to make rural.
- russian zone — a zone in Germany controlled by the Soviet Union 1945–89.
- safety razor — a razor with a guard to prevent the blade from cutting the skin.
- saint moritz — a resort town in SE Switzerland: a popular center for winter sports. 6037 feet (1840 meters) high.
- saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
- salinization — the process by which a nonsaline soil becomes saline, as by the irrigation of land with brackish water.
- sancho panza — Sancho, Sancho Panza.
- sanitization — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- sankt moritz — German name of St. Moritz.
- satirization — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- schizocarpic — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- schizothymia — the condition of being schizoid or introverted. It encompasses elements of schizophrenia but does not involve the same depth of psychological disturbance
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- smoky quartz — a smoky-yellow to dark brown or black variety of quartz, used as a gem.
- socializable — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- solonization — the formation of solonetzic soil
- somaticizing — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- somatization — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
- stabilizator — a stabilizer
- stara zagora — a city in central Bulgaria.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- symptomatize — symptomize.
- tangier zone — a former internationalized zone on the Strait of Gibraltar: became a part of Morocco 1956. Compare Morocco (def 1).
- tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
- tetanization — to induce tetanus in (a muscle).
- tezcatlipoca — an Aztec god.
- theorization — to form a theory or theories.
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- to a frazzle — absolutely; completely (esp in the phrase burnt to a frazzle)
- topaz quartz — citrine (def 2).
- totalization — to make total; combine into a total.
- towaway zone — See example at towaway.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- uncognizable — capable of being perceived or known.