11-letter words containing iz
- deemphasize — to place less emphasis upon; reduce in importance, size, scope, etc.: The university de-emphasized intercollegiate football.
- deenergized — to deprive of electrical energy or exhaust the electrical energy from: Turning off the ignition de-energizes the spark plugs.
- defeminized — Simple past tense and past participle of defeminize.
- defeudalize — to reverse the process of feudalization
- 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
- dehumanized — Past participle of dehumanize.
- dehumanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanize.
- dehypnotize — to bring out of the hypnotic state
- delabialize — to deprive (a sound) of labial character, as in unrounding a vowel.
- delocalized — (chemistry) describing the π-electrons in a conjugated, aromatic or mesoionic compound that are not associated with any particular atom or bond.
- demagnetize — to lose magnetic properties or remove magnetic properties from
- demesmerize — (transitive) To relieve from mesmeric influence.
- demobilized — Simple past tense and past participle of demobilize.
- demobilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demobilize.
- democratize — If a country or a system is democratized, it is made democratic.
- demonetized — Simple past tense and past participle of demonetize.
- demoralized — dispirited; disheartened
- demoralizer — Agent noun of demoralize; one who demoralizes.
- demoralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demoralize.
- demutualize — If a savings and loan association or an insurance company demutualizes, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a different kind of company.
- demythicize — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
- denaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturize.
- denizenship — the status of a denizen
- 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.
- deoxidizing — Present participle of deoxidize.
- deoxygenize — deoxygenate.
- 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
- desacralize — to render less sacred; to secularize
- desalinized — Simple past tense and past participle of desalinize.
- desalinizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desalinize.
- descloizite — a mineral, lead zinc vanadate.
- desensitize — To desensitize someone to things such as pain, anxiety, or other people's suffering, means to cause them to react less strongly to them.
- deserialize — (transitive, computing) To parse (serialized data) so as to reconstruct the original object.
- desexualize — to deprive of sexual characteristics by the surgical removal of the testicles or ovaries; castrate or spay
- desilverize — to extract silver from (metal)
- desocialize — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- destabilize — To destabilize something such as a country or government means to create a situation which reduces its power or influence.
- destalinize — (transitive) To free from the influence of w Joseph Stalin.
- 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