16-letter words containing a, z, o
- over-romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
- overurbanization — 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.
- parochialization — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- pearly razorfish — See under razorfish.
- phenoxybenzamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 8 H 2 2 ClNO, used to dilate vascular peripheral blood vessels in the treatment of Raynaud's disease and in pheochromocytoma.
- photozincography — a type of photoengraving using a sensitized zinc plate.
- polarizing angle — the law that light will receive maximum polarization from a reflecting surface when it is incident to the surface at an angle (angle of polarization or polarizing angle) having a tangent equal to the index of refraction of the surface.
- politicalization — to cause to be political; color with politics.
- post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
- progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
- rational horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
- razor-billed auk — a black and white auk, Alca torda, of the American and European coasts of the northern North Atlantic, having a compressed black bill encircled by a white band.
- recapitalization — a revision of a corporation's capital structure by an exchange of securities.
- reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- remilitarization — the act of re-arming a country or territory that has previously been disarmed
- remineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
- repressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
- reprioritization — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- self-realization — the fulfillment of one's potential.
- slow metabolizer — A slow metabolizer is someone whose body is slow to break down, absorb, or use a particular substance.
- spiritualization — to make spiritual.
- sulfamethoxazole — an antimicrobial substance, C 1 0 H 1 1 N 3 O 3 S, used against a variety of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms, as in the treatment of certain urinary tract infections and skin infections.
- tetrahydrozoline — a compound, C 13 H 16 N 2 , used in the treatment of nasal congestion and certain conditions of eye irritation.
- the amazon basin — the catchment area of the River Amazon
- to blaze a trail — If someone blazes a trail, they discover or develop something new.
- to come a gutzer — to make an error or blunder
- trapezoidal rule — a numerical method for evaluating the area between a curve and an axis by approximating the area with the areas of trapezoids.
- uncollateralized — lacking or needing no collateral: uncollateralized loans.
- underutilization — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
- universalization — to make universal.
- utilization rate — The utilization rate is the percentage of the total equipment or refinery which is involved in producing something.
- wodzislaw slaski — a city in S Poland.
- woolly manzanita — a tree or shrub, Arctostaphylos tomentosa, of the heath family, common from British Columbia to California, having broad leaves, with the underside covered with white hairs, and white flowers.
- zagros mountains — a mountain range in S Iran: has Iran's main oilfields in its W central foothills. Highest peak: Zard Kuh, 4548 m (14 920 ft)
- zone of leaching — A horizon.
- zorrilla y moral — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1817–93, Spanish poet and dramatist.
- zygosporangium's — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.