11-letter words containing t, z, e
- tropicalize — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- troubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
- tuberculize — to infect or become infected with tuberculosis
- unamortized — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
- unquantized — having unlimited or unrestricted values and states
- unsanitized — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- uto-aztecan — an American Indian language family, widespread from Idaho to Central America and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific: this family includes Hopi, Ute, Shoshone, Comanche, Nahuatl, Papago, Pima, and other languages.
- utopianizer — an idealist
- vasectomize — to perform a vasectomy on
- vulcanizate — a vulcanized substance.
- water ouzel — dipper (def 4).
- weatherized — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherize.
- weltschmerz — sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life; sentimental pessimism.
- westernized — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
- westernizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of westernize.
- winterizing — Present participle of winterize.
- witch hazel — a shrub, Hamamelis virginiana, of eastern North America, having toothed, egg-shaped leaves and small, yellow flowers. Compare witch hazel family.
- yastrzemski — Carl Michael ("Yaz") born 1939, U.S. baseball player.
- zebra plant — any of several plants having conspicuously striped or veined foliage, as Calathea zebrina, of Brazil.
- zend-avesta — the Avesta together with the Zend.
- zenith tube — a telescope mounted to point only at the zenith, used at some observatories for measuring time by the stars.
- zeolitiform — in the shape of a zeolite
- zeptosecond — one sextillionth (10 -21) of a second. Abbreviation: zsec, zs.
- zero growth — a lack of increase or development
- zero option — (in international nuclear arms negotiations) an offer to remove all shorter-range nuclear missiles or, in the case of the zero-zero option all intermediate-range nuclear missiles, if the other side will do the same
- zero vector — a vector of which all the components are zero.
- zero-rating — the process of rating goods at a VAT level of zero
- zestfulness — State or condition of being zestful or enthusiastic.
- zinnwaldite — a yellow-brown variety of mica containing iron, found with tin ores.
- zone system — a system for envisioning the values to appear in a black-and-white print and for determining exposure and development, based on a scale of shades ranging from 0 (black) to IX (white).
- zoomagnetic — of or relating to animal magnetism or hypnotism
- zooparasite — any parasitic animal or protozoan.
- zooplankter — an individual animal or animallike organism in plankton.
- zoot suiter — a person who wears a zoot suit.
- zootechnics — the breeding and domestication of animals; the technology of animal husbandry.
- zootheistic — of or relating to zootheism
- zwitterions — Plural form of zwitterion.
- zx spectrum — (computer) Sinclair's first personal computer with a colour display. The Spectrum used the Zilog Z80 processor like its predecessors the ZX-80 and ZX-81. It was originally available in 16k and 48k versions using cassette tape and later grew to 128k and sprouted floppy disks. It had a wider and more solid case and a marginally better "dead flesh" keyboard. Unlike the earlier models, it didn't require the presence of a cold carton of milk to prevent it overheating. It was possibly the most popular home computer in the UK for many years. The TK-90X was a clone.
- zygomycetes — any of a wide variety of common fungi constituting the phylum Zygomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or the class Zygomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), in which sexual reproduction is by the formation of zygospores.
- zymosimeter — a device for measuring the rate or degree of fermentation