14-letter words containing z, a, i, t, e
- demonetization — to divest (a monetary standard or the like) of value.
- demoralization — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- denationalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denationalize.
- denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
- depolarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
- derivatization — the process of making a chemical compound into a derivative
- derivitization — (organic chemistry) The formation of a chemical derivative.
- desalinization — desalt.
- despiritualize — to render less spiritual; to remove the spiritual character of; to make more material
- destigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- deunionization — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- devitalization — The act of devitalizing.
- dextrinization — The process of dextrinizing.
- discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
- easternization — (usually initial capital letter) to influence with ideas, customs, etc., characteristic of eastern Asia.
- editorializing — Present participle of editorialize.
- electric razor — an electrically powered implement for shaving, having reciprocating or rotating blades behind a fine metal comb or pierced foil
- elegiac stanza — a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming
- envenomization — the introduction of poison into a body
- epigrammatized — Simple past tense and past participle of epigrammatize.
- epigrammatizer — someone who epigrammatizes
- epithelialized — Simple past tense and past participle of epithelialize.
- epithelization — Alternative form of epithelialization.
- evangelization — The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- fraternization — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
- gabriel tellez — (Gabriel Téllez) 1571?–1648, Spanish dramatist.
- gelatinization — to make gelatinous.
- generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
- geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
- gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
- gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
- grammaticalize — to convert (a content word or part of one) into a functor, as in using OE līc, “body,” as a suffix in adjectives and adverbs, such as OE frēondlīc, “friendly.”.
- grangerization — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
- greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
- hepatectomized — That has undergone hepatectomy.
- hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
- homogenization — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
- illegalization — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- illegitimatize — to make illegitimate: The decree illegitimatized his heirs.
- immaterialized — Simple past tense and past participle of immaterialize.