15-letter words containing s, z
- goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
- grant's gazelle — a large gazelle, Gazella granti, with distinctive long curved horns, native to the eastern African plains.
- gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
- hazard analysis — risk assessment
- hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
- historicization — Act or process of historicizing.
- hospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- hypersensitized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersensitize.
- hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
- hypostatization — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
- industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
- insurrectionize — to cause insurrection in (a country or the like).
- intrazonal soil — a soil that has a well-developed profile determined by relief, parent material, age, etc
- isoimmunization — the development of isoantibodies within an individual in order to protect against antigens derived from a different member of the same species
- isthmus of suez — a strip of land in NE Egypt, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: links Africa and Asia and is crossed by the Suez Canal
- jaques-dalcroze — Émile [French ey-meel] /French eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1865–1950, Swiss composer and teacher: created eurythmics.
- joseph pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
- kreutzer sonata — a sonata for violin and piano (1803, Op. 47) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
- lazaro cardenas — Lázaro [lah-sah-raw] /ˈlɑ sɑˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1970, Mexican general and political reformer: president 1934–40.
- leibnitz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
- liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
- lomas de zamora — a city in E Argentina, S of Buenos Aires.
- lopez y fuentes — Gregorio [gre-gaw-ryaw] /grɛˈgɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Mexican writer.
- lzh compression — (algorithm) (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
- lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
- marianske lazne — a spa in W Bohemia, in the W Czech Republic. 18,510.
- masculinization — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- metamorphosizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metamorphosize.
- mis-categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- mischaracterize — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
- misvocalization — an incorrect or bad vocalization
- mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
- nominalizations — Plural form of nominalization.
- non-sensitizing — to render sensitive.
- nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
- nonstandardized — Unstandardized.
- organized chaos — a complex situation or process that appears chaotic while having enough order to achieve progress or goals
- overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
- overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
- overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
- panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
- parish magazine — a magazine containing news and articles of interest to the people of a particular parish church or the local area
- pastoralization — to make pastoral or rural.
- personalization — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- phosphor bronze — a bronze, composed of about 80 percent copper, 10 percent tin, 9 percent antimony, and 1 percent phosphorus, having great hardness and resistance to corrosion.
- photosensitizer — a drug, food, or other chemical that increases sensitivity to light and other visible photons
- photosynthesize — to produce carbohydrates by photosynthesis: Plants with light green leaves don't photosynthesize as well as those with darker leaves.
- physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.