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16-letter words containing z, a

  • lazy standard ml — (language)   (LSML) A lazy varient of SML, allowing cyclic val definitions, by Prateek Mishra <[email protected]>. Not to be confused with LML.
  • lizard peninsula — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
  • lopez de legazpe — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), 1510?–72, Spanish conqueror and colonizer of the Philippines 1565: founder of Manila 1571.
  • lorenz attractor — (mathematics)   (After Edward Lorenz, its discoverer) A region in the phase space of the solution to certain systems of (non-linear) differential equations. Under certain conditions, the motion of a particle described by such as system will neither converge to a steady state nor diverge to infinity, but will stay in a bounded but chaotically defined region. By chaotic, we mean that the particle's location, while definitely in the attractor, might as well be randomly placed there. That is, the particle appears to move randomly, and yet obeys a deeper order, since is never leaves the attractor. Lorenz modelled the location of a particle moving subject to atmospheric forces and obtained a certain system of ordinary differential equations. When he solved the system numerically, he found that his particle moved wildly and apparently randomly. After a while, though, he found that while the momentary behaviour of the particle was chaotic, the general pattern of an attractor appeared. In his case, the pattern was the butterfly shaped attractor now known as the Lorenz attractor.
  • machado de assiz — Joaquim Maria [zhaw-ah-kim mah-ree-ah] /ˈʒɔ ɑ kɪm mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1839–1908, Brazilian writer.
  • magazine section — a magazinelike section in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, containing articles rather than news items and often letters, reviews, stories, puzzles, etc.
  • mahmud of ghazni — a.d. 971?–1030, Muslim Amir of Ghazni 997–1030.
  • maleic hydrazide — a crystalline compound, C 4 N 2 H 4 O 2 , used as a plant growth inhibitor and weed-killer.
  • man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
  • manganese bronze — an alloy that is about 55 percent copper, 40 percent zinc, and up to 3.5 percent manganese.
  • marsupialization — (surgery) The surgical technique of cutting a slit into a cyst and suturing its edges to form a continuous surface from the exterior to the interior of the cyst, allowing it to drain freely.
  • metamorphization — Process or action of metamorphizing.
  • microminiaturize — (especially of electronic equipment) to make extremely small; subject to microminiaturization.
  • municipalization — (economics) The transfer of corporations or other assets to municipal ownership.
  • nationalizations — Plural form of nationalization.
  • new orleans jazz — the jazz originating in New Orleans from about 1914; traditional jazz
  • non-standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
  • oblique zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it between the poles and the equator
  • operationalizing — Present participle of operationalize.
  • optical tweezers — a laser device used to study, manipulate, or trap a microscopic object, as a microorganism or cell, with nanometer precision.
  • organization man — a person who subordinates his personal life to the demands of the organization he works for
  • organizationally — the act or process of organizing.
  • organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
  • over-rationalize — to remove unreasonable elements from.
  • over-romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
  • overurbanization — the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city: Urbanization has led to more air pollution and increasing childhood asthma.
  • parochialization — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
  • pearly razorfish — See under razorfish.
  • perez de cuellar — Javier [hah-vyer] /hɑˈvyɛr/ (Show IPA), born 1920, Peruvian diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations 1982–91; prime minister of Peru 2000–2001.
  • phenoxybenzamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 8 H 2 2 ClNO, used to dilate vascular peripheral blood vessels in the treatment of Raynaud's disease and in pheochromocytoma.
  • photozincography — a type of photoengraving using a sensitized zinc plate.
  • pietermaritzburg — a province in the E part of the Republic of South Africa. 35,284 sq. mi. (91,886 sq. km). Capital: Pietermaritzburg.
  • polarizing angle — the law that light will receive maximum polarization from a reflecting surface when it is incident to the surface at an angle (angle of polarization or polarizing angle) having a tangent equal to the index of refraction of the surface.
  • politicalization — to cause to be political; color with politics.
  • post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
  • premillennialize — to support or believe in premillennialism.
  • progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
  • pygmy chimpanzee — a small chimpanzee, Pan paniscus, primarily of swamp forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a threatened species.
  • rational horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
  • razor-billed auk — a black and white auk, Alca torda, of the American and European coasts of the northern North Atlantic, having a compressed black bill encircled by a white band.
  • recapitalization — a revision of a corporation's capital structure by an exchange of securities.
  • reconceptualized — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • remilitarization — the act of re-arming a country or territory that has previously been disarmed
  • remineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
  • repressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
  • reprioritization — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
  • schmaltz herring — herring caught just before spawning, when it has much fat
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • self-realization — the fulfillment of one's potential.
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