11-letter words containing z
- unmechanize — to break up or disarrange (something)
- unmoralized — devoid of morality
- unorganized — not organized; without organic structure.
- unpolarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- unquantized — having unlimited or unrestricted values and states
- unromanized — unrelated to Rome, specifically the Roman church or empire
- unsanitized — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- ununionized — to separate or change into ions.
- unurbanized — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
- unvocalized — not articulated; unspoken; unvoiced
- unvulgarize — to make unvulgar; to raise from the level of the common and ordinary; to refine; to elevate
- utilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- uto-aztecan — an American Indian language family, widespread from Idaho to Central America and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific: this family includes Hopi, Ute, Shoshone, Comanche, Nahuatl, Papago, Pima, and other languages.
- utopianizer — an idealist
- vacuumizing — to create a vacuum in.
- vagabondize — to behave like a vagabond
- van der zee — James, 1886–1983, U.S. photographer.
- van zeeland — Paul [poul] /paʊl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1973, Belgian statesman: premier 1935–37.
- vascularize — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vasectomize — to perform a vasectomy on
- vizagapatam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
- vladikavkaz — an autonomous republic in S European Russia, in the N Caucasus. 3100 sq. mi. (8029 sq. km) Capital: Vladikavkaz.
- voznesenski — Andrei (Andreievich) [ahn-drey ahn-drey-yuh-vich;; Russian uhn-dryey uhn-drye-yi-vyich] /ˈɑn dreɪ ɑnˈdreɪ yə vɪtʃ;; Russian ʌnˈdryeɪ ʌnˈdryɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), (Andre Voznesensky) 1933–2010, Russian poet.
- voznesensky — Andrei (Andreievich) (anˈdrjej).1933–2010, Russian poet, noted for his experimental style
- vulcanizate — a vulcanized substance.
- wage freeze — earnings fixed at current amount
- wall lizard — a small mottled grey lizard, Lacerta muralis, of Europe, N Africa, and SW Asia: family Lacertidae
- water ouzel — dipper (def 4).
- weatherized — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherize.
- weltschmerz — sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life; sentimental pessimism.
- westernized — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
- westernizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of westernize.
- winterizing — Present participle of winterize.
- witch hazel — a shrub, Hamamelis virginiana, of eastern North America, having toothed, egg-shaped leaves and small, yellow flowers. Compare witch hazel family.
- wizard book — (publication) Hal Abelson, Gerald Sussman and Julie Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less commonly, known as the Purple Book.
- worm lizard — any of numerous burrowing, primarily legless lizards of the suborder Amphisbaenia, mostly inhabiting tropical areas and resembling an earthworm in shape.
- yakuza boss — a criminal who is a boss in the Yakuza
- yastrzemski — Carl Michael ("Yaz") born 1939, U.S. baseball player.
- zanthoxylum — any rutaceous shrub or tree of the genus Zanthoxylum, of temperate and subtropical E Asia and North America: includes the prickly ash and the West Indian yellowwood (or satinwood)
- zarathustra — Zoroaster.
- zauschneria — Epilobium canum, a North American willowherb.
- zealousness — full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent. Synonyms: enthusiastic, eager, fervid, fervent, intense, passionate, warm. Antonyms: apathetic; lackadaisical.
- zebra finch — a small Australian waxbill, Poephila guttata, that has black-and-white barred plumage and a chestnut ear patch: popular as a cage bird.
- zebra label — a label with a coded series of short, black lines affixed to each book in a library and to each borrower's card for purposes of identification and prevention of theft.
- zebra plant — any of several plants having conspicuously striped or veined foliage, as Calathea zebrina, of Brazil.
- zend-avesta — the Avesta together with the Zend.
- zener diode — a semiconductor diode across which the reverse voltage remains almost constant over a wide range of currents, used especially to regulate voltage.
- zeng guofan — Tseng Kuo-fan.
- zenith tube — a telescope mounted to point only at the zenith, used at some observatories for measuring time by the stars.
- zeolitiform — in the shape of a zeolite