13-letter words containing z, a, c
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- glocalization — The practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations.
- gomez palacio — a city in Durango state, N central Mexico.
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- guzman blanco — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1829–99, Venezuelan political leader: president 1870–88.
- haematochezia — Alternative form of hematochezia.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- idealized csp — (language) A programming language combining simply typed, call-by-name procedures with asynchronous communicating processes, assuming fair parallel execution. Idealized CSP generalises Anthony Hoare's original CSP and Kahn's networks of deterministic processes, and is closely related to Parallel Algol by Stephen Brookes of CMU. Procedures permit the encapsulation of common protocols and parallel programming idioms. Local variables and local channel declarations provide a way to delimit the scope of interference between parallel agents, and allow a form of concurrent object-oriented programming.
- isocarboxazid — a potent monoamine oxidase inhibitor, C 12 H 13 N 3 O 2 , used to treat severe depression.
- italicization — to print in italic type.
- lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
- magazine rack — shelf for storing periodicals
- mechanization — to make mechanical.
- mercerization — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- mercurialized — Simple past tense and past participle of mercurialize.
- metaphysicize — to think, write, etc, metaphysically
- micronization — (US) alternative spelling of micronisation.
- miscategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- municipalized — Simple past tense and past participle of municipalize.
- mythicization — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
- narcotization — to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- natchez trace — a road begun in 1806 between Natchez, Miss., and Nashville, Tenn.: about 500 miles (800 km) long.
- nez perce war — a war (1877) fought in the northwestern U.S. between the U.S. and a band of Nez Percé Indians.
- non-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- nonmechanized — Unmechanized.
- occam's razor — the maxim that assumptions introduced to explain a thing must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
- occidentalize — to make Occidental.
- ostracization — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ovariectomize — (transitive) To remove the ovaries from.
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- particularize — to make particular.
- picturization — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
- politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
- pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- racialization — to impose a racial interpretation on; place in a racial context.
- reacclimatize — to acclimatize or become acclimatized again
- recriminalize — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
- recrystallize — to become crystallized again.
- republicanize — to make republican.
- revascularize — to surgically improve the blood circulation of (an organ or area of the body).
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
- sacralization — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.