14-letter words containing izat
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- finlandization — the neutralization of a country in terms of its allegiance to the superpowers, in the way that the Soviet Union rendered Finland neutral and friendly without making it a satellite state or requiring that it adopt Communism.
- fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- fraternization — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- galvanizations — Plural form of galvanization.
- gelatinization — to make gelatinous.
- generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
- geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
- glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
- globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
- glottalization — (linguistics) The act or process of constricting or closing the glottis during the production of a speech sound that normally does not involve such constriction.
- grangerization — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
- greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
- homogenization — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- illegalization — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- immiserization — the process of immiserizing
- immobilization — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
- indigenization — to make indigenous.
- initialization — (uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
- inorganization — lack of organization.
- journalization — to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.
- juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
- keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
- lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
- legitimization — to make legitimate.
- lexicalization — The act or process of lexicalizing.
- liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
- literalization — The act or process of literalizing.
- lobotomization — to perform a lobotomy on.
- lyophilization — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- macadamization — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
- medicalization — The act or process of medicalizing.
- militarization — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
- mineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
- minimalization — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- missionization — the work and practice of missionaries
- misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- modularization — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- moisturization — The act or process of moisturizing.
- mongrelization — to subject (a breed, group, etc.) to crossbreeding, especially with one considered inferior.
- monopolization — to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
- musicalization — the adaptation of a novel, play, etc into a musical form
- mylonitization — the geological process which causes the formation of mylonite
- naturalization — to confer upon (an alien) the rights and privileges of a citizen.
- neutralization — the act, process, or an instance of neutralizing.
- nominalization — to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.
- nuclearization — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.