13-letter words containing c, r, a, z
- electrization — the action of electrifying
- eroticization — The act or process of eroticizing.
- factorization — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- isocarboxazid — a potent monoamine oxidase inhibitor, C 12 H 13 N 3 O 2 , used to treat severe depression.
- lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
- magazine rack — shelf for storing periodicals
- mercerization — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- mercurialized — Simple past tense and past participle of mercurialize.
- micronization — (US) alternative spelling of micronisation.
- miscategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- narcotization — to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- natchez trace — a road begun in 1806 between Natchez, Miss., and Nashville, Tenn.: about 500 miles (800 km) long.
- nez perce war — a war (1877) fought in the northwestern U.S. between the U.S. and a band of Nez Percé Indians.
- occam's razor — the maxim that assumptions introduced to explain a thing must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
- ostracization — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ovariectomize — (transitive) To remove the ovaries from.
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- particularize — to make particular.
- picturization — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- racialization — to impose a racial interpretation on; place in a racial context.
- reacclimatize — to acclimatize or become acclimatized again
- recriminalize — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
- recrystallize — to become crystallized again.
- republicanize — to make republican.
- revascularize — to surgically improve the blood circulation of (an organ or area of the body).
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
- sacralization — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- scenarization — the process of making or creating a scenario, esp to aid distance learning education
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- sectorization — the act or state of sectorizing
- semicarbazide — an organic nitrogen compound derived from urea
- semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
- structuralize — to form into or make part of a structure.
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- theatricalize — to put into dramatic or theatrical form; dramatize.
- tropical zone — Torrid Zone
- uncategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- uncentralized — to draw to or gather about a center.
- unsecularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
- vernacularize — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.