14-letter words containing z, a, i
- liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
- literalization — The act or process of literalizing.
- lobotomization — to perform a lobotomy on.
- localizability — The condition of being localizable.
- louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
- lyophilization — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- macadamization — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
- machado y ruiz — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1875–1939, Spanish writer.
- mazar-e-sharif — a city in N Afghanistan, reputed burial place of the caliph Ali; trading, agricultural, and military centre. Pop: 254 000 (2005 est)
- mazar-i-sharif — a city in N Afghanistan.
- medicalization — The act or process of medicalizing.
- melodramatized — Simple past tense and past participle of melodramatize.
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosize — (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
- militarization — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
- mineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
- minimalization — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- missionization — the work and practice of missionaries
- misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- moderate-sized — not large or small
- modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- moisturization — The act or process of moisturizing.
- mongrelization — to subject (a breed, group, etc.) to crossbreeding, especially with one considered inferior.
- monopolization — to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
- monumentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.
- musicalization — the adaptation of a novel, play, etc into a musical form
- mylonitization — the geological process which causes the formation of mylonite
- naturalization — to confer upon (an alien) the rights and privileges of a citizen.
- neutralization — the act, process, or an instance of neutralizing.
- nietzscheanism — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- nominalization — to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.
- non-cognizable — capable of being perceived or known.
- non-cognizance — awareness, realization, or knowledge; notice; perception: The guests took cognizance of the snide remark.
- non-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- nonparasitized — Not having been parasitized.
- nonpolarizable — not able to be polarized
- nuclearization — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
- operationalize — Put into operation or use.
- organizability — The suitability or potential for organization.
- organizational — the act or process of organizing.
- oriental topaz — a variety of corundum resembling topaz in colour and used as a gemstone
- orthonormalize — (mathematics) To make a set of vectors both orthogonal and normalized.
- ovariectomized — Simple past tense and past participle of ovariectomize.
- over-dramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- over-organized — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.
- over-socialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- overcapitalize — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.