13-letter words containing z, o, c, a
- deromanticize — to remove the romantic, ideal, or heroic aura from.
- diazo process — a method for printing on paper treated with a diazo compound that disintegrates upon exposure to light and developing the unexposed areas by the use of diazo dyes.
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
- economization — The act or practice of using resources to the best effect.
- electrization — the action of electrifying
- eroticization — The act or process of eroticizing.
- eschscholzias — Plural form of eschscholzia.
- factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
- factorization — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
- focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- glocalization — The practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations.
- gomez palacio — a city in Durango state, N central Mexico.
- guzman blanco — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1829–99, Venezuelan political leader: president 1870–88.
- haematochezia — Alternative form of hematochezia.
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- isocarboxazid — a potent monoamine oxidase inhibitor, C 12 H 13 N 3 O 2 , used to treat severe depression.
- italicization — to print in italic type.
- lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
- mechanization — to make mechanical.
- mercerization — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.
- micronization — (US) alternative spelling of micronisation.
- miscategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- mythicization — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
- narcotization — to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- non-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- nonmechanized — Unmechanized.
- occam's razor — the maxim that assumptions introduced to explain a thing must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
- occidentalize — to make Occidental.
- ostracization — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ovariectomize — (transitive) To remove the ovaries from.
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- picturization — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
- politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
- pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- racialization — to impose a racial interpretation on; place in a racial context.
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
- sacralization — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- scenarization — the process of making or creating a scenario, esp to aid distance learning education
- schizaeaceous — relating to a type of extinct fern
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.