12-letter words containing i, z, a
- quiz program — a radio or television program in which contestants compete, often for prizes, by answering questions.
- quizzicality — The state or condition of being quizzical.
- 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.
- re-emphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- re-stabilize — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- recapitalize — to renew or change the capital of.
- recarburizer — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
- recategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- recentralize — to draw to or gather about a center.
- 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.
- reemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- remilitarize — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
- remineralize — to add or restore minerals to
- repopularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- sectarianize — to make sectarian.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
- sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- shijiazhuang — a province in NE China. 81,479 sq. mi. (211,031 sq. km). Capital: Shijiazhuang.
- 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.
- spiny lizard — any of numerous iguanid lizards of the genus Sceloporus, common in North and Central America, usually having keeled scales that may end in a sharp point.
- spiritualize — to make spiritual.
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
- stabilizator — a stabilizer
- standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- stigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- strategizing — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- sulfadiazine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 0 H 1 0 N 4 O 2 S, used chiefly in the treatment of urinary tract infections, meningitis, and malaria.