18-letter words containing z, i, r, a
- przewalski's horse — a wild horse, Equus caballus przevalskii, chiefly of Mongolia and Sinkiang, characterized by light yellow coloring and a stiff, upright black mane with no forelock: the only remaining breed of wild horse, it is now endangered and chiefly maintained in zoos.
- quartz-iodine lamp — a type of tungsten-halogen lamp containing small amounts of iodine and having a quartz envelope, operating at high temperature and producing an intense light for use in car headlamps, etc
- recharacterization — portrayal; description: the actor's characterization of a politician.
- schwarz inequality — Also called Cauchy's inequality. the theorem that the inner product of two vectors is less than or equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors.
- self-fertilization — Botany. fertilization of an ovum of a plant by a male gamete from the same flower (opposed to cross-fertilization).
- solomon rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
- territorialization — to extend by adding new territory.
- tranquillizer dart — a dart filled with a tranquillizer that is shot from a gun in order to temporarily sedate an animal so that it may be handled safely
- universalizability — the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation
- venezia tridentina — a former department in N Italy, now forming the greater part of the region of Trentino-Alto Adige.
- zion national park — a park in SW Utah. 148 sq. mi. (383 sq. km).
- zone of saturation — the ground below the water table
- zorrilla (y moral) — Joˈsé (hɔˈsɛ ) ; h^ōseˈ) 1817-93; Sp. poet & playwright