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14-letter words containing z, e, r

  • fridge-freezer — a domestic electrical appliance which comprises a fridge and a freezer compartment
  • frilled lizard — a medium-sized Australian lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingi, having a large, cloaklike flap of skin on the neck that stiffens during courtship or threat displays, forming a wide ruff.
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • gabriel tellez — (Gabriel Téllez) 1571?–1648, Spanish dramatist.
  • garcia marquez — Gabriel [gey-bree-uh l,, gah-bree-el;; Spanish gah-vree-el] /ˈgeɪ bri əl,, ˌgɑ briˈɛl;; Spanish ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1927–2014, Colombian novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1982.
  • generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
  • geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • grammaticalize — to convert (a content word or part of one) into a functor, as in using OE līc, “body,” as a suffix in adjectives and adverbs, such as OE frēondlīc, “friendly.”.
  • grangerization — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
  • great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
  • greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
  • guido d'arezzo — (Guido Aretinus"Fra Guittone") c995–1049? Italian monk and music theorist: reformer of musical notation.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • heterozygosity — having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
  • horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
  • hydroxybenzene — phenol (def 1).
  • hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
  • hypercivilized — Very highly civilized.
  • hypercriticize — To criticize with unjust severity.
  • hypersensitize — Photography. to treat (a film or emulsion) so as to increase its speed.
  • hypersexualize — To make extremely sexual; to accentuate the sexuality of.
  • hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
  • immaterialized — Simple past tense and past participle of immaterialize.
  • immaterializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immaterialize.
  • immiserization — the process of immiserizing
  • impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
  • industrialized — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
  • industrializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of industrialize.
  • journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
  • juan fernandez — a group of three islands in the S Pacific, 400 miles (645 km) W of and belonging to Chile: Alexander Selkirk, the alleged prototype of Robinson Crusoe, was marooned here 1704.
  • keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
  • kirghiz steppe — a steppe in Kazakhstan.
  • laissez passer — a permit; pass, especially one issued in lieu of a passport.
  • laissez-passer — a permit; pass, especially one issued in lieu of a passport.
  • lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
  • leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • lemon squeezer — tool for extracting juice from lemons
  • leopard lizard — any long-tailed lizard of the genus Gambelia, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having the body marked with spots and bars of dark or light brown or black.
  • liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
  • literalization — The act or process of literalizing.
  • louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
  • lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
  • mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
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