12-letter words containing a, z, o
- underzealous — full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent. Synonyms: enthusiastic, eager, fervid, fervent, intense, passionate, warm. Antonyms: apathetic; lackadaisical.
- unformalized — not formalized
- unglamorized — not glamorized
- unharmonized — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- unionization — to form into a union.
- unmoralizing — not moralizing
- unnormalized — to make normal.
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unsocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- up the wazoo — the anus.
- urbanization — the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city: Urbanization has led to more air pollution and increasing childhood asthma.
- valorization — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- virilization — the development of adult male physical characteristics in a female or a young boy
- vitalization — to give life to; make vital.
- vocalization — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- zalambdodont — (zoology) Having teeth with two ridges that meet at an angle, forming the letter lambda.
- zeno of elea — c490–c430 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.
- zero grazing — a type of dairy farming in which the cattle are fed with cut grass
- zero tillage — no-tillage.
- zhang zuolin — Chang Tso-lin.
- zielona gora — a city in W Poland.
- zillionaires — Plural form of zillionaire.
- zone therapy — a type of massage which works on the theory that specific parts of the foot or palm of the hand are associated with different parts of the body, and that massaging the feet or hands will give the patient relief from disorders in the related part of the body
- zoochlorella — any of various symbiotic green algae in the cytoplasm of certain freshwater invertebrates, as stentors and hydras.
- zoogeography — the science dealing with the geographical distribution of animals.
- zoologically — In a zoologic manner.
- zoomastigote — A zooflagellate: a heterotrophic flagellate of the phylum Zoomastigophora.
- zoosporangia — Plural form of zoosporangium.
- zootechnical — of or relating to zootechny
- zooxanthella — any of various symbiotic yellow-green or yellow–brown algae in the cytoplasm of certain radiolarians and marine invertebrates.
- zorn's lemma — a theorem of set theory that if every totally ordered subset of a nonempty partially ordered set has an upper bound, then there is an element in the set such that the set contains no element greater than the specified given element.
- zuid-holland — South Holland
- zuse, konrad — Konrad Zuse
- zygapophysis — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.