13-letter words containing z, a
- circularizing — Present participle of circularize.
- citizens band — a two-way radio service (Citizens Radio Service) licensed by the FCC to a U.S. citizen for short-distance personal or business communications between fixed or mobile stations. Abbreviation: CB.
- ciudad juarez — a city in N Mexico, in Chihuahua state on the Río Grande, opposite El Paso, Texas. Pop: 1 469 000 (2005 est)
- civilianizing — Present participle of civilianize.
- civilizations — Plural form of civilization.
- climatic zone — any of the eight principal zones, roughly demarcated by lines of latitude, into which the earth can be divided on the basis of climate
- climatization — to acclimate to a new environment.
- coatzacoalcos — city in EC Mexico, in Veracruz state: pop. 233,000
- coca-colonize — to bring (a foreign country) under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
- collateralize — to treat (a security) as collateral
- commercialize — If something is commercialized, it is used or changed in such a way that it makes money or profits, often in a way that people disapprove of.
- communalizing — Present participle of communalize.
- communization — The act or process of communizing.
- conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
- connaturalize — to make connatural
- conservatized — Simple past tense and past participle of conservatize.
- containerized — Simple past tense and past participle of containerize.
- contextualize — to state the social, grammatical, or other context of; put into context
- conversazione — a social gathering for discussion of the arts, literature, etc
- corinthianize — to live a promiscuous life
- creep-grazing — a method of pasture management that allows young farm animals (esp lambs) to graze part of the pasture before the adults in the group
- criminalizing — Present participle of criminalize.
- cruzeiro real — a former monetary unit of Brazil, which was replaced by the real
- crystallizing — Present participle of crystallize.
- customization — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cyproconazole — (organic compound) The conazole fungicide \u03b1-(4-chlorophenyl)-\u03b1-(1-cyclopropylethyl)-1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-ethanol.
- dactylozooids — Plural form of dactylozooid.
- de-capitalize — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- de-stigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
- decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
- decentralized — to distribute the administrative powers or functions of (a central authority) over a less concentrated area: to decentralize the national government.
- decentralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decentralize.
- decolonialize — decolonize.
- decriminalize — When a criminal offence is decriminalized, the law changes so that it is no longer a criminal offence.
- deculturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
- defamiliarize — to make (something well-known or well-established) seem unfamiliar, strange, disconcerting, etc., as in order to reinterpret or subvert it
- demagnetizing — Present participle of demagnetize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- dematerialize — to cease to have material existence, as in science fiction or spiritualism
- demilitarized — Declared free of all military activity.
- demilitarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demilitarize.
- demineralized — From which all minerals have been removed.
- demineralizer — a substance or device that causes demineralization
- demineralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demineralize.
- democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
- denationalize — To denationalize an industry or business means to transfer it into private ownership so that it is no longer owned and controlled by the state.
- denaturalized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturalize.
- dentalization — to change into or pronounce as a dental sound.