12-letter words containing t, e, z, c
- dual citizen — a person who is a citizen or subject of two or more nations; one having dual citizenship.
- electrolyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of electrolyze.
- eliza effect — (jargon) /e-li:'z* *-fekt'/ (From ELIZA) The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol "+" that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's just that people associate it with addition. Using "+" or "plus" to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. The ELIZA effect is a Good Thing when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analysing an Artificial Intelligence system. Compare ad-hockery; see also AI-complete.
- factionalize — (especially of a political party or other organized group) split or divide into factions.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- fictionalize — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- geometricize — to draw, design, or form in geometrical shapes or patterns.
- grammaticize — (transitive) To render grammatical.
- hematochezia — the passage of bloody stools.
- hertz effect — the effect of ultraviolet radiation in lowering the sparking voltage across a spark gap: an example of photoelectric effect.
- historicized — Simple past tense and past participle of historicize.
- hydrozincite — a hydrous zinc carbonate, Zn 5 (CO 3) 2 (OH) 6 , an important ore of zinc in some localities.
- incentivized — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- incentivizes — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- iridectomize — to perform an iridectomy on.
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- ketoconazole — a synthetic substance, C 26 H 28 Cl 2 N 4 O 4 , used to treat a variety of fungal infections.
- nietzscheism — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- nonenzymatic — relating to a process not produced by enzymes
- objectivized — to cause to become concrete or objective; objectify.
- ozonic ether — a solution of hydrogen peroxide in ethyl ether.
- parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
- perfectivize — to make perfective.
- pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
- pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
- politicalize — to cause to be political; color with politics.
- precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
- quetzalcoatl — the feathered serpent god of the Aztec and Toltec cultures.
- racemization — the conversion of an optically active substance into an optically inactive mixture of equal amounts of the dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms.
- recapitalize — to renew or change the capital of.
- recategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- recentralize — to draw to or gather about a center.
- reflectorize — to treat something so that it reflects light: to reflectorize license plates.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- schizomycete — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
- sectarianize — to make sectarian.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- subjectivize — to make subjective
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- technicalize — to make technical
- technologize — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- tezcatlipoca — an Aztec god.
- the cenozoic — the Cenozoic era
- the mesozoic — the Mesozoic era
- thymectomize — to surgically remove the thymus; to perform a thymectomy
- trichotomize — to divide into three parts or categories
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- unitalicized — to print in italic type.
- zantedeschia — (botany) Any of the genus Zantedeschia of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa.
- zephyr cloth — a lightweight worsted cloth.