14-letter words containing z, a, i
- gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
- glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
- globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
- glottalization — (linguistics) The act or process of constricting or closing the glottis during the production of a speech sound that normally does not involve such constriction.
- 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.”.
- grammaticizing — Present participle of grammaticize.
- grangerization — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
- 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
- guangxi zhuang — an administrative division in S China. 85,096 sq. mi. (220,399 sq. km). Capital: Nanning.
- guido d'arezzo — (Guido Aretinus"Fra Guittone") c995–1049? Italian monk and music theorist: reformer of musical notation.
- 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.
- harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- 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.
- horizontal bar — on a bar chart
- horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
- hydrazoic acid — a colorless, very explosive, poisonous liquid, HN 3 , having a penetrating odor and irritating to the eyes and mucous membranes.
- hypersexualize — To make extremely sexual; to accentuate the sexuality of.
- 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.
- immaterializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immaterialize.
- immiserization — the process of immiserizing
- immobilization — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
- impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
- indigenization — to make indigenous.
- individualized — Give an individual character to.
- individualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individualize.
- industrialized — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
- industrializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of industrialize.
- initialization — (uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
- inorganization — lack of organization.
- journalization — to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.
- juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
- keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
- kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
- laissez passer — a permit; pass, especially one issued in lieu of a passport.
- laissez-passer — a permit; pass, especially one issued in lieu of a passport.
- lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
- legitimatizing — Present participle of legitimatize.
- legitimization — to make legitimate.
- leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
- leopard lizard — any long-tailed lizard of the genus Gambelia, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having the body marked with spots and bars of dark or light brown or black.
- lexicalization — The act or process of lexicalizing.