13-letter words containing z, a
- tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.
- unapologizing — not apologetic; not willing to apologize or to make an apology
- uncapitalized — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- uncategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- uncentralized — to draw to or gather about a center.
- unmacadamized — (of a road) not constructed or surfaced with macadam
- unmetabolized — not metabolized
- unparasitized — not host to a parasite or parasites
- unpasteurized — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- unplagiarized — to take and use by plagiarism.
- unplasticized — not made plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- unpolarizable — not capable of being polarized
- unsecularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- unspecialized — not specialized
- unstabilizing — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- unstigmatized — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- uralitization — the change of a crystalline silicate mineral to amphibole (one of a group of structurally similar minerals including calcium, sodium and magnesium)
- vaccinization — a vaccination produced by a series of virus inoculations.
- vacuolization — the state of being full of vacuoles
- vandalization — an act of vandalizing
- vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
- verbalization — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- vernacularize — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
- vernalization — to shorten the growth period of (a plant) by chilling or other special treatment of it, its seeds, or its bulbs.
- victimization — to make a victim of.
- villagization — the transfer of land to village control.
- visualization — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- vulcanization — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- vulgarization — to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase: to vulgarize standards of behavior.
- waltz matilda — to travel the road carrying one's swag
- weaponization — Standard spelling of from=American spelling.
- winterization — The process in which solid fats are removed from liquid edible oils by cooling, which allows such oils to be stored in a refrigerator.
- yelizavetgrad — a former name of Kirovograd.
- yitzhak rabin — Yitzhak [yits-khahk] /yɪtsˈxɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
- zaghlul pasha — Saad [sahd] /sɑd/ (Show IPA), c1860–1927, Egyptian political leader: first prime minister 1924–27.
- zarathustrian — Zoroaster.
- zebra stripes — a pattern of alternate black and white stripes
- zeeman effect — the dividing of a spectral line or lines as a result of placing a radiation source in a magnetic field. The division consists of three equally spaced lines (normal Zeeman effect) in systems for which the spin quantum number is zero, or of three or more unequally spaced lines (anomalous Zeeman effect) in systems for which the spin quantum number is not zero.
- zero altitude — the height at which the atmospheric pressure is 610.5Pa
- zero-sum game — a game in which the sum of the winnings and losses of the various players is always zero, the losses being counted negatively.
- zhao kuangyin — Chao K'uang-yin.
- zila parishad — a district council in India
- zinc stearate — a white, fine, soft, water-insoluble powder, Zn(C 18 H 35 O 2) 2 , used in the manufacture of cosmetics, ointments, and lacquers, as a drying agent for rubber, and as a waterproofing agent for textiles, paper, etc.
- zinc sulphate — a colourless soluble crystalline substance usually existing as the heptahydrate or monohydrate: used as a mordant, in preserving wood and skins, and in the electrodeposition of zinc. Formula: ZnSO4
- zincification — the act or process of coating or plating with zinc
- zinjanthropus — the genus to which Australopithecus boisei was formerly assigned.
- zip fastening — a fastener in the form of a zip
- zombification — The act or process of zombifying.
- zone-leaching — A horizon.
- zooflagellate — any flagellated protozoan that lacks photosynthetic pigment and feeds on organic matter: often parasitic.