11-letter words containing z, o, a, n
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- kostelanetz — André [ahn-drey] /ˈɑn dreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1901–80, U.S. orchestra conductor and pianist, born in Russia.
- laicization — The act of laicizing.
- laze around — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- lionization — to treat (a person) as a celebrity: to lionize the visiting poet.
- manorialize — to bring under manorialism.
- matronizing — to cause to become matronly; cause to act as, or fulfill the role of, matron.
- mebendazole — an anthelmintic substance, C 1 6 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 , used for treating parasitic worm infestations.
- memoization — memo function
- misorganize — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- modern jazz — any of various styles of jazz that have evolved since the early 1940s and are marked generally by harmonic and rhythmic complexity, emphasis on chord progressions rather than melody, a tendency to draw on classical forms and styles, and eclectic, allusive melodic tags in improvisation. Also called progressive jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop.
- monetizable — Able to be converted into cash with relative ease.
- mortalizing — Present participle of mortalize.
- munoz marin — Luis [lwees] /lwis/ (Show IPA), 1898–1980, Puerto Rican political leader: governor 1948–64.
- naphazoline — 2-(1-naphthylmethyl)-2-imidazoline hydrochloride, a sympathomimetic agent used as a vasoconstrictor.
- narcotizing — Present participle of narcotize.
- nationalize — to bring under the ownership or control of a nation, as industries and land: a movement to nationalize the oil industry.
- neopaganize — to make neopagan
- nominalized — to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.
- nonpartizan — Alternative spelling of nonpartisan.
- normalizing — Present participle of normalize.
- organizable — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- orientalize — Alternative capitalization of Orientalize.
- ostracizing — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracize.
- outdazzling — Present participle of outdazzles.
- outorganize — to overcome by organization
- overanalyze — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
- overgrazing — to graze (land) to excess.
- oxidization — the process or result of oxidizing.
- ozone layer — Meteorology. the layer of the upper atmosphere where most atmospheric ozone is concentrated, from about 8 to 30 miles (12 to 48 km) above the earth, with the maximum ozone concentration occurring at an altitude of about 12 miles (19 km).
- pantheonize — to place, especially to bury, in a pantheon: The author will be pantheonized following the funeral mass.
- patronizing — displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner: a patronizing greeting, accompanied by a gentle pat on the pack.
- pentazocine — a synthetic narcotic analgesic, C 1 9 H 2 7 NO, used chiefly for the relief of moderate to severe pain.
- personalize — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- phanerozoic — the eon comprising the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.
- quinazoline — a colorless, crystalline, heterocyclic compound, C 8 H 6 N 2 .
- rationalize — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- realization — the making or being made real of something imagined, planned, etc.
- regionalize — to divide or organize into regions for administrative purposes
- renormalize — to normalize again, to cause to conform to norms or a normal state again
- reorganizer — a person who reorganizes
- repatronize — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
- romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- safety zone — A safety zone is a place in the middle of a road crossing where you can wait before you cross the other half of the road.
- san lorenzo — a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- socializing — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- solmization — the act, process, or system of using certain syllables, especially the sol-fa syllables, to represent the tones of the scale.
- stylization — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.