12-letter words containing iz
- deratization — extermination of rats, especially aboard a merchant vessel.
- derecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of derecognize.
- desacralized — Simple past tense and past participle of desacralize.
- desacralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desacralize.
- desalinizing — Present participle of desalinize.
- desensitized — to lessen the sensitiveness of.
- desensitizer — Anything that desensitizes.
- desensitizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desensitize.
- desexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of desexualize.
- desexualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desexualize.
- desocialized — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- destabilized — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- destabilizer — a person who or a thing that destabilizes
- destabilizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destabilize.
- destigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- desulfurized — Simple past tense and past participle of desulfurize.
- desulphurize — to free or become free from sulphur
- detribalized — Simple past tense and past participle of detribalize.
- devirginized — Simple past tense and past participle of devirginize.
- devirginizer — Someone who devirginizes.
- devirginizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devirginize.
- devitalizing — Present participle of devitalize.
- devolatilize — to cause (a vapor) to liquefy.
- dextrinizing — Present participle of dextrinize.
- diagonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of diagonalize.
- dichotomized — Simple past tense and past participle of dichotomize Having been divided into dichotomous parts.
- digitalizing — Present participle of digitalize.
- digitization — to convert (data) to digital form for use in a computer.
- dimerization — (chemistry) Any chemical reaction in which two monomers react to form a dimer.
- diphthongize — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disharmonize — (intransitive) To cause disorder.
- disorganized — functioning without adequate order, systemization, or planning; uncoordinated: a woefully disorganized enterprise.
- dispauperize — to free (a person) from the state of being a pauper
- dissocialize — to render dissocial
- dissyllabize — to disyllabize.
- divinization — The act or process of making divine.
- domesticized — Simple past tense and past participle of domesticize.
- dramatizable — Capable of being dramatized.
- drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
- dual citizen — a person who is a citizen or subject of two or more nations; one having dual citizenship.
- economy size — product: large, inexpensive
- economy-size — larger in size and costing less per unit of measurement than a smaller size: an economy-size box of soap flakes.
- editorialize — to set forth one's position or opinion on some subject in, or as if in, an editorial.
- eliza effect — (jargon) /e-li:'z* *-fekt'/ (From ELIZA) The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol "+" that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's just that people associate it with addition. Using "+" or "plus" to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. The ELIZA effect is a Good Thing when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analysing an Artificial Intelligence system. Compare ad-hockery; see also AI-complete.
- elizabeth ii — born 1926, queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1952; daughter of George VI
- emblematized — Simple past tense and past participle of emblematize.
- embolization — (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
- emotionalize — To give something an emotional quality.
- energization — The act (or state) of being energized.