17-letter words containing z, i, r
- non-containerized — to package (freight) in uniform, sealed containers for shipment.
- north frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
- organized ferment — ferment (def 1).
- organized militia — a former military organization functioning under both state and federal authority.
- orthogonalization — (mathematics) The process of converting a set of functions or vectors into orthogonal ones.
- particularization — to make particular.
- pointer swizzling — swizzle
- polarizing filter — a camera lens filter used to control the plane of polarization of light entering the lens.
- pre-authorization — the act of authorizing.
- pressurized cabin — the cabin of an aircraft in which the air has been pressurized
- pronominalization — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- provincialization — to make provincial in character.
- psychic energizer — Pharmacology. antidepressant (def 2).
- recrystallization — to become crystallized again.
- rehospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
- revascularization — the restoration of the blood circulation of an organ or area, achieved by unblocking obstructed or disrupted blood vessels or by surgically implanting replacements.
- reza shah pahlavi — Muhammad Riza (or Reza) [ri-zah] /rɪˈzɑ/ (Show IPA), 1919–80, shah of Iran 1941–79; in exile after 1979 (son of Riza Shah Pahlavi).
- riza shah pahlavi — Pahlavi (def 2).
- schizophrenogenic — causative of schizophrenia.
- secondary glazing — insulation by means of a second pane of glass, or a sheet of plastic: a simple form of double glazing
- self-aggrandizing — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
- south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
- spenserian stanza — the stanza used by Spenser in his Faerie Queene and employed since by other poets, consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines and a final Alexandrine, with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc.
- theatricalization — to put into dramatic or theatrical form; dramatize.
- transcendentalize — to cause to become transcendent.
- unrealized losses — Unrealized losses are losses from the decrease in value of an asset that you still own.
- vernacularization — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
- vibrofluidization — Vibrofluidization is when vibration is used to make particles move in a fluidized bed.
- voice synthesizer — a computer system that is used to artificially produce the human voice
- zebra swallowtail — a swallowtail butterfly, Papilio marcellus, having black and greenish-white stripes on the wings.
- zero-point energy — energy in a substance at the temperature of absolute zero.
- zonal pelargonium — a pelargonium whose leaves are marked with concentric circles of a different colour to the rest of the leaf
- zoogeographically — In a zoogeographical way.
- zoological garden — zoo (def 1).
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.