11-letter words containing z, r
- criminalize — If a government criminalizes an action or person, it officially declares that the action or the person's behaviour is illegal.
- criticizing — Present participle of criticize.
- cryogenized — treated with or stored in a cryogen.
- cryptozoite — a malarial parasite at the stage of development in its host before it enters the red blood cells
- crystalized — Simple past tense and past participle of crystalize.
- crystalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystalize.
- crystallize — If you crystallize an opinion or idea, or if it crystallizes, it becomes fixed and definite in someone's mind.
- culturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- dacarbazine — a toxic, light-sensitive powder, C 6 H 10 N 6 O, used in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease and metastatic malignant melanoma.
- danger zone — a dangerous area
- dastardized — Simple past tense and past participle of dastardize.
- de-energize — to disconnect (an electrical circuit) from its source
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- decarburize — decarbonize
- decartelize — to break up (a cartel)
- decerebrize — to remove the cerebrum of (an animal)
- decolorized — Simple past tense and past participle of decolorize.
- decolorizer — a substance that removes colour
- dedramatize — to cause to be less dramatic
- deenergized — to deprive of electrical energy or exhaust the electrical energy from: Turning off the ignition de-energizes the spark plugs.
- deep freeze — A deep freeze is the same as a freezer.
- deep-freeze — to quick-freeze (food).
- deep-frozen — to quick-freeze (food).
- deflazacort — A glucocorticoid prodrug used as an anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant.
- deformalize — to make (something) less formal
- degenderize — to free from any association with or dependence on gender: to degenderize employment policies.
- deglamorize — to make (a person or thing) less glamorous
- demesmerize — (transitive) To relieve from mesmeric influence.
- democratize — If a country or a system is democratized, it is made democratic.
- demoralized — dispirited; disheartened
- demoralizer — Agent noun of demoralize; one who demoralizes.
- demoralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demoralize.
- denaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturize.
- denormalize — (transitive, databases) To add redundancy to (a database schema), the opposite of normalization, typically in order to optimize its performance.
- deodorizers — Plural form of deodorizer.
- deodorizing — Present participle of deodorize.
- depauperize — to make (a person) poor
- depolarized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolarize.
- depolarizer — a substance added to the electrolyte of an electric cell or battery to remove gas collected at the electrodes.
- deprivatize — (transitive) To strip the privacy from; to make public.
- deracialize — to remove racial characteristics from (a person)
- derecognize — to cease to recognize (a trade union) as having special negotiating rights within a company or industry
- dermatozoon — any microscopic animal or protozoan living as a parasite on or in the skin of the host.
- desacralize — to render less sacred; to secularize
- deserialize — (transitive, computing) To parse (serialized data) so as to reconstruct the original object.
- desilverize — to extract silver from (metal)
- desterilize — to bring back from a sterile state; specif., to release (gold) from a neutralized position into an active position in the monetary system where it can support credit and monetary issues
- desulfurize — to remove sulfur from
- detribalize — to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their characteristic customs or social, religious, or other organizational features