13-letter words containing z, e, r, o
- disaster zone — area affected by a catastrophe
- disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
- editorialized — Simple past tense and past participle of editorialize.
- editorializer — One who editorializes.
- editorializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of editorialize.
- edward lorenz — (person) A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
- electrization — the action of electrifying
- electrolyzing — Present participle of electrolyze.
- eroticization — The act or process of eroticizing.
- event horizon — the surface around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape due to gravitational attraction. For a non-rotating black hole, the radius is proportional to the mass of the black hole
- extemporizing — Present participle of extemporize.
- exteriorizing — Present participle of exteriorize.
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
- fertilization — an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
- focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
- franz josef i — English name Francis Joseph I. 1830–1916, emperor of Austria (1848–1916) and king of Hungary (1867–1916)
- frozen assets — business assets that are not convertible into cash, as by government direction or business conditions
- frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
- gazillionaire — An extremely rich person.
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- haemodialyzer — a piece of equipment used in haemodialysis to screen the blood to remove unwanted substances
- hazardousness — The condition of being hazardous.
- herborization — the act or process of herborizing
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- herpes zoster — shingles.
- heterozygosis — the state of being a heterozygote.
- heterozygotes — a hybrid containing genes for two unlike forms of a characteristic, and therefore not breeding true to type.
- heterozygotic — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
- horned lizard — an insectivorous iguanid lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of western North America, having hornlike spines on the head and a flattened body covered with spiny scales.
- hydrogenizing — Present participle of hydrogenize.
- hyperpolarize — to increase the difference in electric potential across (a cell membrane).
- impersonalize — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- interiorizing — Present participle of interiorize.
- irrationalize — to make or cause to be irrational.
- isomerization — (chemistry) the conversion of a compound into a different isomeric form.
- jasperization — The act or process of jasperizing.
- linearization — The modification of a system such that its output is linearly dependent on its input.
- loebner prize — (artificial intelligence) An annual competition in artificial intelligence started by Dr. Hugh Loebner of New York City in 1991. A $100,000 prize is offered to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted Turing test. Annual competitions are held each year with a $2000 prize for the best program on a restricted Turing test. Sponsors of previous competitions include: Apple Computer, Computerland, Crown Industries, GDE Systems, IBM Personal Computer Company's Center for Natural Computing, Greenwich Capital Markets, Motorola, the National Science Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Weingart Foundation. The 1995 and 1996 events were unrestricted Turing Tests, requiring computer entries to converse indefinitely with no topic restrictions. So far, even the best programs give themselves away almost immediately, either by simple grammatical mistakes or by repetition. Complete transcripts and IBM compatible diskettes that play the 1991, 1992, and 1993 conversations in real-time are available for purchase from the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (telephone: +1 (617) 491 9020, Fax: 1072). Sponsorship opportunities are available.
- lorentz force — the force on a charged particle moving through a region containing both electric and magnetic fields.
- lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
- madeira topaz — citrine (def 2).
- marbleization — The process of marbleizing.
- marketization — The exposure of an industry or service to market forces.
- melodramatize — to make melodramatic.
- memorializing — Present participle of memorialize.
- mercerization — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.