14-letter words containing z, e, t, i
- 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.
- gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
- 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
- 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.
- hepatectomized — That has undergone hepatectomy.
- 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.
- homogenization — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- horizontalness — The property of being horizontal.
- hypercriticize — To criticize with unjust severity.
- hypersensitize — Photography. to treat (a film or emulsion) so as to increase its speed.
- hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
- illegalization — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- illegitimatize — to make illegitimate: The decree illegitimatized his heirs.
- illegitimizing — illegitimatize.
- immaterialized — Simple past tense and past participle of immaterialize.
- immaterializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immaterialize.
- immiserization — the process of immiserizing
- indigenization — to make indigenous.
- industrialized — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
- industrializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of industrialize.
- juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
- keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
- kirghiz steppe — a steppe in Kazakhstan.
- kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
- 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.
- legitimatizing — Present participle of legitimatize.
- legitimization — to make legitimate.
- leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
- lexicalization — The act or process of lexicalizing.
- 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.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- medicalization — The act or process of medicalizing.
- melodramatized — Simple past tense and past participle of melodramatize.
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosize — (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
- mineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- moderate-sized — not large or small
- modestly sized — moderately sized; not very large, but not small
- mongrelization — to subject (a breed, group, etc.) to crossbreeding, especially with one considered inferior.
- monophthongize — to change into or pronounce as a monophthong.