12-letter words containing z, e, r, o, i
- metamorphize — (transitive) To transform or change; metamorphose.
- mineralogize — (intransitive) To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
- misrecognize — (psychology, computing) To recognize in error.
- missionarize — to undertake missionary work
- moisturizers — Plural form of moisturizer.
- mongrelizing — Present participle of mongrelize.
- monopolizers — Plural form of monopolizer.
- monsterizing — Present participle of monsterize.
- mythologizer — One who, or that which, mythologizes.
- nationalizer — One who, or that which, nationalizes.
- nitrobenzene — a pale yellow, toxic, water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 5 NO 2 , produced by nitrating benzene with nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of aniline.
- nitrogenized — Treated with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound.
- nobel prizes — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
- non-itemizer — to state by items; give the particulars of; list the individual units or parts of: to itemize an account.
- nonmotorized — not equipped with a motor
- normalizable — That can be normalized.
- on the fritz — on the fritz, not in working order: Our TV went on the fritz last night.
- overidealize — to idealize excessively
- overorganize — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.
- overutilized — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- ozonic ether — a solution of hydrogen peroxide in ethyl ether.
- parochialize — to make parochial.
- personalized — customized
- phrenologize — to treat with phrenology or phrenological methods
- pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
- porcelainize — to make into or coat with porcelain or something resembling porcelain.
- porcellanize — to bake into porcelain
- preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
- privatdozent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
- procarbazine — a drug used in the treatment of cancer, esp lymphomas
- promethazine — a phenothiaxine derivative, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 2 S, used for the symptomatic relief of allergies and in the management of motion sickness.
- propagandize — to propagate or publicize (principles, dogma, etc.) by means of propaganda.
- racemization — the conversion of an optically active substance into an optically inactive mixture of equal amounts of the dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms.
- re-authorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- recategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- recognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognizance — Law. a bond or obligation of record entered into before a court of record or a magistrate, binding a person to do a particular act. the sum pledged as surety on such a bond.
- reflectorize — to treat something so that it reflects light: to reflectorize license plates.
- repopularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- reprioritize — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- russian zone — a zone in Germany controlled by the Soviet Union 1945–89.
- saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
- schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
- skeletonizer — any of numerous insect species that reduce leaves to a skeleton
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- tangier zone — a former internationalized zone on the Strait of Gibraltar: became a part of Morocco 1956. Compare Morocco (def 1).