12-letter words containing iz
- recarburizer — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
- recategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- recentralize — to draw to or gather about a center.
- recognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognizance — Law. a bond or obligation of record entered into before a court of record or a magistrate, binding a person to do a particular act. the sum pledged as surety on such a bond.
- reemphasized — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- reflectorize — to treat something so that it reflects light: to reflectorize license plates.
- remilitarize — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
- remineralize — to add or restore minerals to
- repopularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- repressurize — to raise the internal atmospheric pressure of to the required or desired level: to pressurize an astronaut's spacesuit before a walk in space.
- reprioritize — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- resynthesize — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
- revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
- rhizocarpous — having the root perennial but the stem annual, as perennial herbs.
- rhizophagous — feeding on roots.
- rhizophilous — (esp of insects) preferring to live or grow near or on roots
- robotization — the introduction of robots to carry out industrial tasks
- romanticized — interpreted according to romantic precepts
- ruralization — to make rural.
- salinization — the process by which a nonsaline soil becomes saline, as by the irrigation of land with brackish water.
- sanitization — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- satirization — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- schizocarpic — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- schizogenous — schizogenetic.
- schizogonous — pertaining to or reproducing by schizogony.
- schizomycete — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
- schizophrene — a person with schizophrenia or one who tends toward schizophrenia
- schizophytic — of or relating to a schizophyte
- schizopodous — of or relating to a schizopod
- schizothymia — the condition of being schizoid or introverted. It encompasses elements of schizophrenia but does not involve the same depth of psychological disturbance
- schreinerize — to produce a lustrous finish on (a fabric) by subjecting it to pressure exerted by rollers engraved with many fine lines.
- scrutinizing — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- sectarianize — to make sectarian.
- sectionalize — to render sectional.
- segmentalize — to make segmentalized.
- serpentinize — to convert (a mineral or rock) into serpentine.
- sherardizing — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- skeletonizer — any of numerous insect species that reduce leaves to a skeleton
- socializable — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- soliloquizes — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
- solonization — the formation of solonetzic soil
- somaticizing — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- somatization — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- somniloquize — to talk in one's sleep
- spiny lizard — any of numerous iguanid lizards of the genus Sceloporus, common in North and Central America, usually having keeled scales that may end in a sharp point.
- spiritualize — to make spiritual.
- splenization — the transformation of something into a spleenlike tissue
- stabilizator — a stabilizer
- standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.