12-letter words containing t, z, a
- stara zagora — a city in central Bulgaria.
- stigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- strategizing — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- sympathizing — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
- symptomatize — symptomize.
- systematized — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- tadzhikistan — a republic in central Asia, N of Afghanistan. 55,240 sq. mi. (143,600 sq. km). Capital: Dushanbe.
- take a whizz — to urinate
- tangier zone — a former internationalized zone on the Strait of Gibraltar: became a part of Morocco 1956. Compare Morocco (def 1).
- tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
- technicalize — to make technical
- tetanization — to induce tetanus in (a muscle).
- tezcatlipoca — an Aztec god.
- the jazz age — (esp in the US) the period between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression during which jazz became popular
- the nazarene — Jesus
- theorization — to form a theory or theories.
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- tiger lizard — either of two lacertid lizards, Nucras intertexta and N. tessellata, of southern Africa, having a gray or brown body marked with black spots and bars.
- to a frazzle — absolutely; completely (esp in the phrase burnt to a frazzle)
- topaz quartz — citrine (def 2).
- totalization — to make total; combine into a total.
- towaway zone — See example at towaway.
- trailblazing — to blaze a trail through (a forest, wilderness, or the like) for others to follow.
- tranquilizer — a person or thing that tranquilizes.
- tranquillize — To tranquillize a person or an animal means to make them become calm, sleepy, or unconscious by means of a drug.
- traumatizing — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- unappetizing — appealing to or stimulating the appetite; savory.
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- undramatized — not dramatized; not adapted to dramatic form
- unionization — to form into a union.
- unitalicized — to print in italic type.
- unnaturalize — to make unnatural
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unstabilized — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- up the wazoo — the anus.
- urbanization — 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.
- valorization — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- virilization — the development of adult male physical characteristics in a female or a young boy
- vitalization — to give life to; make vital.
- vocalization — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- waltz-length — having the hemline at mid calf: a waltz-length nightgown.
- zalambdodont — (zoology) Having teeth with two ridges that meet at an angle, forming the letter lambda.
- zantedeschia — (botany) Any of the genus Zantedeschia of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa.
- zephyranthes — any of various bulbous plants belonging to the genus Zephyranthes, of the amaryllis family, as Z. grandiflora, having showy rose or pink flowers.
- zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.