13-letter words containing z, a, h
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- hertzian wave — an electromagnetic wave produced by oscillations in an electric circuit, as a radio or radar wave: first investigated by H. R. Hertz.
- hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.
- honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
- horizontality — at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
- horned lizard — an insectivorous iguanid lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of western North America, having hornlike spines on the head and a flattened body covered with spiny scales.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- hyalinization — a condition in which normal tissue deteriorates into a homogeneous, translucent material.
- hybridization — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hymnal stanza — common measure (def 2).
- hymnal-stanza — common time.
- hyperpolarize — to increase the difference in electric potential across (a cell membrane).
- hyphenization — the act or use of hyphenation
- hypostatizing — Present participle of hypostatize.
- johann tetzel — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1465?–1519, German monk: antagonist of Martin Luther.
- lamaze method — a method by which an expectant mother is prepared for childbirth by education, psychological and physical conditioning, and breathing exercises.
- 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
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- mathematizing — Present participle of mathematize.
- mechanization — to make mechanical.
- merchandizing — Alternative spelling of merchandising.
- metaphysicize — to think, write, etc, metaphysically
- methodization — The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.
- mohammedanize — Islamize.
- mythicization — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
- natchez trace — a road begun in 1806 between Natchez, Miss., and Nashville, Tenn.: about 500 miles (800 km) long.
- nathan glazer — Nathan, born 1923, U.S. sociologist.
- nizhniy tagil — city in W Russia, in the EC Urals: pop. 429,000
- nonauthorized — Not authorized.
- nonmechanized — Unmechanized.
- on the razzle — out enjoying oneself or celebrating, esp while drinking freely
- orthogonalize — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
- orthographize — to spell correctly or according to the rules of orthography.
- overemphasize — to emphasize excessively.
- parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- pharyngealize — to pronounce with pharyngeal coarticulation.
- phenmetrazine — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO, used chiefly to control the appetite in the treatment of obesity.
- phenomenalize — to regard or interpret as a phenomenon.
- phenothiazine — Chemistry. a grayish-green to greenish-yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 2 H 9 NS, used chiefly as an insecticide and vermifuge, and in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- radio horizon — the locus of points on the earth's surface where rays from a transmitting antenna are tangent to the surface. The radio horizon for a fixed antenna varies with refraction by the atmosphere of radio waves.
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- rhythmization — the act or process of rhythmizing something
- schizaeaceous — relating to a type of extinct fern
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
- spanish topaz — citrine (def 2).
- sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.