11-letter words containing z
- sclerotized — (especially of the cuticle of an arthropod) hardened by the presence of substances other than chitin, as by scleroproteins, waxes, or calcium salts.
- scrutinized — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scrutinizer — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scuzzbucket — Also called scuzzball [skuhz-bawl] /ˈskʌzˌbɔl/ (Show IPA), scuzzbucket [skuhz-buhk-it] /ˈskʌzˌbʌk ɪt/ (Show IPA). a dirty, grimy, sordid, or repulsive person or thing.
- sea of azov — a shallow arm of the Black Sea, to which it is connected by the Kerch Strait: almost entirely landlocked; fed chiefly by the River Don. Area: about 37 500 sq km (14 500 sq miles)
- secularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- sermonizing — the act of talking as if delivering a sermon
- sheherazade — a legendary Persian queen who is a character in (and the storyteller of) 'One Thousand and One Nights'
- sienkiewicz — Henryk [hen-rik] /ˈhɛn rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, Polish novelist: Nobel prize 1905.
- siliconized — (of a material) having silicone added.
- silver fizz — an alcoholic drink made with gin, lemon juice, sugar, and egg white.
- singularize — to make singular.
- skeletonize — to reduce to a skeleton, outline, or framework.
- sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
- small-sized — small in size
- smokerlyzer — a device for estimating the amount of carbon monoxide in the breath: used in testing whether or not people, esp schoolchildren, have been smoking
- smoky topaz — smoky quartz used as a gemstone: not a true topaz.
- sneezeguard — a plastic or glass shield overhanging a salad bar, buffet, or the like to protect the food from contamination.
- socializing — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- soliloquize — to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
- solmization — the act, process, or system of using certain syllables, especially the sol-fa syllables, to represent the tones of the scale.
- somaticized — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- soviet zone — that part of Germany occupied by Soviet forces in 1945–49: transformed into the German Democratic Republic in 1949–50
- spallanzani — Lazzaro [lahd-dzah-raw] /ˈlɑd dzɑ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–99, Italian biologist.
- specialized — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specializer — a person who specializes in something
- spermatozoa — one of the minute, usually actively motile gametes in semen, which serve to fertilize the ovum; a mature male reproductive cell.
- spheroidize — to turn or be turned into spheroids
- spitzbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- sprezzatura — effortlessness or ease, esp. in art or literature; careless grace; nonchalance
- squeeze off — If you squeeze off a shot, you fire a bullet from a gun.
- squeeze out — extract
- squeeze-box — a concertina or accordion.
- st. nazaire — a seaport in W France, on the Loire estuary.
- stabilizing — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
- standardize — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- star-gazing — Star-gazing is the activity of studying the stars as an astronomer or astrologer.
- status zero — the condition of young people who are out of school but not in further education or training, permanently or regularly out of work, and dropping out of the mainstream of society
- stigmatized — marked out or described (as something bad)
- strategized — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- strike zone — the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to his or her shoulders.
- stylization — to design in or cause to conform to a particular style, as of representation or treatment in art; conventionalize.
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
- suburbanize — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
- subvocalize — to form (words) silently by moving the lips or other vocal organs without vocalization
- super-sized — having size as specified (often used in combination): middle-sized.
- superbazaar — (in India) a large department store or supermarket, esp one set up as a cooperative store by the government