16-letter words containing o, z
- man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
- manganese bronze — an alloy that is about 55 percent copper, 40 percent zinc, and up to 3.5 percent manganese.
- 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.
- mount kosciuszko — a mountain in Australia, in SE New South Wales in the Australian Alps: the highest peak in Australia. Height: 2230 m (7316 ft)
- municipalization — (economics) The transfer of corporations or other assets to municipal ownership.
- nationalizations — Plural form of nationalization.
- new orleans jazz — the jazz originating in New Orleans from about 1914; traditional jazz
- 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.
- organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
- 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.
- 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.
- piezoelectricity — electricity, or electric polarity, produced by the piezoelectric effect.
- 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.
- seidlitz powders — a mild laxative consisting of tartaric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and Rochelle salt, which are dissolved separately, mixed, and drunk after effervescence.
- self-realization — the fulfillment of one's potential.
- sensible horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
- shoot the breeze — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- showbiz reporter — a journalist who writes about the entertainment industry
- 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.