14-letter words containing z, a, n, t
- decentralizing — Present participle of decentralize.
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- decimalization — Alternative spelling of decimalisation.
- decivilization — those people or nations that have reached such a state.
- decolonization — Decolonization means giving political independence to a country that was previously a colony.
- decolorization — decolor.
- defeminization — (in a developing organism) the process in which full development into a female of the species is prevented because of a male developmental characteristic
- dehumanization — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- delocalization — to remove from the proper or usual locality.
- demilitarizing — Present participle of demilitarize.
- demobilization — to disband (troops, an army, etc.).
- 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.
- 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.
- diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
- digitalization — (in the treatment of heart disease) the administration of digitalis, usually in a regimen, to produce a desired physiological effect.
- discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
- dolomitization — the conversion of limestone into dolomite.
- dramatizations — Plural form of dramatization.
- easternization — (usually initial capital letter) to influence with ideas, customs, etc., characteristic of eastern Asia.
- editorializing — Present participle of editorialize.
- elegiac stanza — a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming
- envenomization — the introduction of poison into a body
- epithelization — Alternative form of epithelialization.
- evangelization — The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
- fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
- finlandization — the neutralization of a country in terms of its allegiance to the superpowers, in the way that the Soviet Union rendered Finland neutral and friendly without making it a satellite state or requiring that it adopt Communism.
- fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- 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.
- frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
- galvanizations — Plural form of galvanization.
- gelatinization — to make gelatinous.
- generalization — the act or process of generalizing.