14-letter words containing r, a, z
- quartz crystal — a thin plate or rod cut in certain directions from a piece of piezoelectric quartz and accurately ground so that it vibrates at a particular frequency
- quiz programme — a radio or television programme in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions
- radicalization — to make radical or more radical, as in politics: young people who are being radicalized by extremist philosophies.
- radiosensitize — to make (cells) more sensitive to radiation
- ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.
- rationalizable — capable of being rationalized
- rationalized c — (language) (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
- razor-slashing — the action of slashing someone with a razor in order to kill, wound, or disfigure them
- re-familiarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- realized gains — Realized gains are gains which have been made from the sale of an asset.
- recanalization — the reopening of a previously occluded passageway within a blood vessel.
- recharacterize — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- recolonization — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
- relativization — to regard as or make relative.
- remobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
- remoralization — the act of instilling with morals again; the act of making moral again
- reorganization — the act or process of reorganizing; state of being reorganized.
- repolarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
- respectabilize — to make respectable
- respiritualize — to spiritualize again; reinvest with a spiritual character or meaning
- revitalization — to give new life to.
- rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- sand stargazer — a fish of the family Dactyloscopidae, especially Dactyloscopus tridigitatus, of Atlantic waters from Bermuda to Brazil, having tiny, tubular eyes on top of the head, and capable of emitting electric discharges.
- sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
- scrutinization — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- securitization — the use of such securities as eurobonds to enable investors to lend directly to borrowers with a minimum of risk but without using banks as intermediaries
- semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
- sericitization — the process of transforming into sericite
- stabilizer bar — a horizontal metal bar linking the two front suspension systems of an automobile, used to reduce swaying or rolling.
- straight razor — a razor having a stiff blade made of steel that is hinged to a handle into which it folds.
- structuralized — to form into or make part of a structure.
- subminiaturize — to design or manufacture (equipment, especially electronic equipment) of a greatly reduced scale.
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- superficialize — to treat things superficially
- szekesfehervar — a city in W central Hungary.
- tabularization — the act of tabularizing
- telomerization — polymerization in the presence of a chain transfer agent to yield a series of products of low molecular weight
- temperate zone — the part of the earth's surface lying between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the Northern Hemisphere or between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle in the Southern Hemisphere, and characterized by having a climate that is warm in the summer, cold in the winter, and moderate in the spring and fall.
- tenzing norgay — 1914–86, Nepalese mountaineer. With Sir Edmund Hillary, he was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1953)
- territorialize — to extend by adding new territory.
- the archeozoic — the Archean (see phrase under Archean)
- throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
- tolerance zone — an designated area where prostitutes can work without being arrested
- traditionalize — to make traditional: to traditionalize family reunions.
- transistorized — (of a device) equipped with a transistor
- transparentize — to make transparent
- trapeze artist — a person who performs, especially professionally, on a trapeze.
- trapezoid rule — a rule for estimating the area of an irregular figure, by dividing it into parallel strips of equal width, each strip being a trapezium. It can also be adapted to obtaining an approximate value of a definite integral
- traumatization — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.