11-letter words containing z
- antagonized — Simple past tense and past participle of antagonize.
- antagonizer — a person who antagonizes people, or provokes hostility: The leader was an antagonizer of the peasantry. Compare antagonist.
- antagonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of antagonize.
- antherozoid — one of many small male gametes produced in an antheridium
- anthologize — to compile or put into an anthology
- anti-enzyme — a substance that inhibits or counteracts the action of an enzyme.
- antiozonant — any of a number of substances that protect against or reverse oxidation by ozone
- antipathize — (intransitive) To feel or show antipathy.
- antiseizure — acting against or preventing seizures
- antithesize — To create antitheses.
- anzengruber — Ludwig [loot-vikh,, lood-] /ˈlut vɪx,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1839–89, Austrian playwright and novelist.
- apodization — (mathematics) Any of several techniques to modify the form of a mathematical function, or of a spectrum etc. by smoothing or removing irregularities.
- apologizing — Present participle of apologize.
- apostatized — Simple past tense and past participle of apostatize.
- apotheosize — to deify
- appenzeller — a cow's milk cheese, originally made in the canton of Appenzell in Switzerland.
- arabization — transfer to Arab control
- archaeozoic — Archeozoic
- arctic zone — the section of the earth's surface lying between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
- aromatizing — Present participle of aromatize.
- arterialize — to change (venous blood) into arterial blood by replenishing the depleted oxygen
- artzybashev — Mikhail [myi-khuh-yeel] /myɪ xʌˈyil/ (Show IPA), 1878–1927, Russian writer.
- aspheterize — to observe or engage in aspheterism
- astronomize — to practise or study astronomy or engage in astronomical matters
- atomization — to reduce to atoms.
- austenitize — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
- authorizing — Present participle of authorize.
- automatized — to make automatic.
- automatizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automatize.
- autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- axenization — (uncountable) The process of isolating a particular organism from all others.
- azerbaijani — a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan
- azido group — the univalent group N 3 −, derived from hydrazoic acid.
- azimuth bar — a device used in measuring azimuths, consisting of a bar with a sighting vane at each end,pivoted at its center, and rotating in a horizontal plane around the center of a compass.
- azimuthally — Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
- azonal soil — soil that has a profile determined predominantly by factors other than local climate and vegetation. Azonal soils include some mountain, alluvial, marine, glacial, windblown, and volcanic soils
- azoospermia — absence of spermatozoa in the semen
- azores high — a subtropical high centered near the Azores.
- azotobacter — any bacterium of the family Azotobacteriaceae, important in nitrogen fixation in the soil
- bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
- bar mitzvah — A bar mitzvah is a ceremony that takes place on the thirteenth birthday of a Jewish boy, after which he is regarded as an adult.
- bas mitzvah — bat mitzvah
- bashibazouk — (in the 19th century) one of a group of irregular Turkish soldiers notorious for their brutality
- bastardized — If you refer to something as a bastardized form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality.
- bastardizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize.
- bat mitzvah — (of a Jewish girl) having attained religious majority at the age of twelve
- battle zone — an area where a battle or battles are being fought
- battologize — to repeat (a word, phrase, mannerism, etc.) excessively.
- bedizenment — That which bedizens.
- belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)