14-letter words containing z, a, m
- 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.
- harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
- hepatectomized — That has undergone hepatectomy.
- homogenization — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- 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.
- legitimatizing — Present participle of legitimatize.
- legitimization — to make legitimate.
- lobotomization — to perform a lobotomy on.
- 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.
- mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
- 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.
- metalloenzymes — Plural form of metalloenzyme.
- 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
- nietzscheanism — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- 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.
- ockham's razor — Occam's razor.
- 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.
- overdramatized — Simple past tense and past participle of overdramatize.
- overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
- overemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overemphasize.
- pinealectomize — to perform a pinealectomy on (a person or animal)
- polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
- pragmatization — the action of putting theory into practice, the process of rendering something more pragmatic
- quiz programme — a radio or television programme in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions