16-letter words containing i, z, a, t
- diphthongization — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
- editorialization — The act of editorializing, or something editorialized.
- elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
- fictionalization — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- financialization — (economics) Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
- gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
- generalizability — The quality of being generalizable.
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- gutierrez najera — Manuel [mah-nwel] /mɑˈnwɛl/ (Show IPA), ("El Duque Job") 1859–95, Mexican poet, short-story writer, and editor.
- haussmannization — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
- hesitation waltz — a waltz based on the frequent use of a step that consists of a pause and glide.
- horizon distance — Television. the distance of the farthest point on the earth's surface visible from a transmitting antenna.
- horizontal plane — flat surface parallel to the horizon
- horizontal union — a labor union organized by skills or trades of its members rather than by industries.
- hospitalizations — Plural form of hospitalization.
- institutionalize — to make institutional.
- intellectualized — Simple past tense and past participle of intellectualize.
- intellectualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intellectualize.
- interculturalize — To format a subject so that it is culturally neutral.
- internationalize — to make international, as in scope or character: a local conflict that was internationalized into a major war.
- isoamyl benzoate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 15 O 2 , having a sharp, fruitlike odor: used in cosmetics.
- magazine section — a magazinelike section in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, containing articles rather than news items and often letters, reviews, stories, puzzles, etc.
- marsupialization — (surgery) The surgical technique of cutting a slit into a cyst and suturing its edges to form a continuous surface from the exterior to the interior of the cyst, allowing it to drain freely.
- metamorphization — Process or action of metamorphizing.
- microminiaturize — (especially of electronic equipment) to make extremely small; subject to microminiaturization.
- municipalization — (economics) The transfer of corporations or other assets to municipal ownership.
- nationalizations — Plural form of nationalization.
- non-standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- oblique zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it between the poles and the equator
- operationalizing — Present participle of operationalize.
- optical tweezers — a laser device used to study, manipulate, or trap a microscopic object, as a microorganism or cell, with nanometer precision.
- organization man — a person who subordinates his personal life to the demands of the organization he works for
- organizationally — the act or process of organizing.
- over-rationalize — to remove unreasonable elements from.
- 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.
- photozincography — a type of photoengraving using a sensitized zinc plate.
- pietermaritzburg — a province in the E part of the Republic of South Africa. 35,284 sq. mi. (91,886 sq. km). Capital: Pietermaritzburg.
- 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.
- rational horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
- 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.