12-letter words containing z, e, t, a
- recentralize — to draw to or gather about a center.
- remilitarize — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
- revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- safety razor — a razor with a guard to prevent the blade from cutting the skin.
- saint-tropez — a town in SE France, on the French Riviera: beach resort.
- sectarianize — to make sectarian.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
- spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
- spermatozoon — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- spiritualize — to make spiritual.
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
- standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- strategizing — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- symptomatize — symptomize.
- systematized — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- take a whizz — to urinate
- tangier zone — a former internationalized zone on the Strait of Gibraltar: became a part of Morocco 1956. Compare Morocco (def 1).
- tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
- technicalize — to make technical
- tetanization — to induce tetanus in (a muscle).
- tezcatlipoca — an Aztec god.
- the jazz age — (esp in the US) the period between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression during which jazz became popular
- the nazarene — Jesus
- theorization — to form a theory or theories.
- thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
- tiger lizard — either of two lacertid lizards, Nucras intertexta and N. tessellata, of southern Africa, having a gray or brown body marked with black spots and bars.
- to a frazzle — absolutely; completely (esp in the phrase burnt to a frazzle)
- towaway zone — See example at towaway.
- tranquilizer — a person or thing that tranquilizes.
- tranquillize — To tranquillize a person or an animal means to make them become calm, sleepy, or unconscious by means of a drug.
- tropicalized — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- unappetizing — appealing to or stimulating the appetite; savory.
- unauthorized — lacking permission; unsanctioned: unauthorized access.
- undramatized — not dramatized; not adapted to dramatic form
- unitalicized — to print in italic type.
- unnaturalize — to make unnatural
- unpatronized — having few or no patrons
- unstabilized — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- up the wazoo — the anus.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- waltz-length — having the hemline at mid calf: a waltz-length nightgown.
- zantedeschia — (botany) Any of the genus Zantedeschia of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa.
- zephyranthes — any of various bulbous plants belonging to the genus Zephyranthes, of the amaryllis family, as Z. grandiflora, having showy rose or pink flowers.
- zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.
- zero tillage — no-tillage.
- zinc sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.