12-letter words containing n, e, t, z, a
- parenthesize — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- penalization — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
- privatdozent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
- promethazine — a phenothiaxine derivative, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 2 S, used for the symptomatic relief of allergies and in the management of motion sickness.
- racemization — the conversion of an optically active substance into an optically inactive mixture of equal amounts of the dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms.
- recentralize — to draw to or gather about a center.
- revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
- sectarianize — to make sectarian.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
- standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- strategizing — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- tangier zone — a former internationalized zone on the Strait of Gibraltar: became a part of Morocco 1956. Compare Morocco (def 1).
- technicalize — to make technical
- tetanization — to induce tetanus in (a muscle).
- the nazarene — Jesus
- theorization — to form a theory or theories.
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- towaway zone — See example at towaway.
- tranquilizer — a person or thing that tranquilizes.
- tranquillize — To tranquillize a person or an animal means to make them become calm, sleepy, or unconscious by means of a drug.
- unappetizing — appealing to or stimulating the appetite; savory.
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- undramatized — not dramatized; not adapted to dramatic form
- unitalicized — to print in italic type.
- unnaturalize — to make unnatural
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unstabilized — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- waltz-length — having the hemline at mid calf: a waltz-length nightgown.
- zantedeschia — (botany) Any of the genus Zantedeschia of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa.
- zephyranthes — any of various bulbous plants belonging to the genus Zephyranthes, of the amaryllis family, as Z. grandiflora, having showy rose or pink flowers.
- zinc sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.
- zip fastener — a zipper.
- 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
- 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.