13-letter words containing r, a, z
- unplagiarized — to take and use by plagiarism.
- unpolarizable — not capable of being polarized
- unsecularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- uralitization — the change of a crystalline silicate mineral to amphibole (one of a group of structurally similar minerals including calcium, sodium and magnesium)
- vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
- verbalization — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- vernacularize — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
- vernalization — to shorten the growth period of (a plant) by chilling or other special treatment of it, its seeds, or its bulbs.
- vulgarization — to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase: to vulgarize standards of behavior.
- winterization — The process in which solid fats are removed from liquid edible oils by cooling, which allows such oils to be stored in a refrigerator.
- yelizavetgrad — a former name of Kirovograd.
- yitzhak rabin — Yitzhak [yits-khahk] /yɪtsˈxɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
- zarathustrian — Zoroaster.
- zebra stripes — a pattern of alternate black and white stripes
- zero altitude — the height at which the atmospheric pressure is 610.5Pa
- zero-sum game — a game in which the sum of the winnings and losses of the various players is always zero, the losses being counted negatively.
- zila parishad — a district council in India
- zinc stearate — a white, fine, soft, water-insoluble powder, Zn(C 18 H 35 O 2) 2 , used in the manufacture of cosmetics, ointments, and lacquers, as a drying agent for rubber, and as a waterproofing agent for textiles, paper, etc.
- zinjanthropus — the genus to which Australopithecus boisei was formerly assigned.
- zoogeographer — A person involved in zoogeography.
- zoogeographic — Pertaining to zoogeography.
- zoopraxiscope — an early type of motion-picture projector, designed by Eadweard Muybridge, in which the images were drawings or photographs placed along the rim of a circular glass plate, the shutter was a rotating opaque disk with radial slots, and a limelight source was used.
- zoosporangium — a sporangium or spore case in which zoospores are produced.
- zygosporangia — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.