14-letter words containing z, a
- unspiritualize — to deprive of spiritual qualities
- unstandardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
- unsystematized — not systematized or arranged in a system
- utilitarianize — to make utilitarian
- venezia giulia — a former region of NE Italy, at the N end of the Adriatic: now mainly in Croatia and Slovenia. The larger part, including the area surrounding the Free Territory of Trieste, was ceded to Yugoslavia 1947; the part remaining in Italy merged with Udine to form Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
- vietnamization — a U.S. policy during the Vietnam War of giving the South Vietnamese government responsibility for carrying on the war, so as to allow for the withdrawal of American troops.
- volatilization — to become volatile; pass off as vapor.
- weatherization — (US) The process of weatherizing.
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- westernization — The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
- winning hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- zebra crossing — a street crossing marked with white stripes.
- zenaida (dove) — either of two wild doves, (Zenaida aurita) of Florida and the Caribbean, or (Z. asiatica) of the SW U.S. to Chile
- zeno's paradox — any of various versions of a paradox regarding the relation of the discrete to the continuous and requiring the concept of limit for its satisfactory explanation.
- zero balancing — a therapy involving the manipulation of the patient's skeletal structure in order to restore the balance of energy, relieve pain, and maintain well-being
- zero tolerance — a policy of very strict, uncompromising enforcement of rules or laws.
- zero-tolerance — a policy of very strict, uncompromising enforcement of rules or laws.
- zingiberaceous — belonging to the Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of plants.
- zinziberaceous — zingiberaceous.
- zodiacal light — a luminous tract in the sky, seen in the west after sunset or in the east before sunrise and thought to be the light reflected from a cloud of meteoric matter revolving round the sun.
- zona pellucida — the transparent, noncellular layer surrounding the ovum of mammals, often having radial striations.
- zonal geranium — a widely cultivated plant, Pelargonium hortorum, having white, pink, or red flowers and rounded leaves that are sometimes banded or blotched with contrasting colors.
- zooflagellates — Plural form of zooflagellate.
- zoroastrianism — an Iranian religion, founded c600 b.c. by Zoroaster, the principal beliefs of which are in the existence of a supreme deity, Ahura Mazda, and in a cosmic struggle between a spirit of good, Spenta Mainyu, and a spirit of evil, Angra Mainyu.
- zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
- zygomatic arch — the bony arch at the outer border of the eye socket, formed by the union of the cheekbone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.
- zygomatic bone — a bone on each side of the face below the eye, forming the prominence of the cheek; cheekbone.
- zygosporangium — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.