11-letter words containing z
- demutualize — If a savings and loan association or an insurance company demutualizes, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a different kind of company.
- demythicize — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
- denaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of denaturize.
- denazifying — Present participle of denazify.
- denizenship — the status of a denizen
- denormalize — (transitive, databases) To add redundancy to (a database schema), the opposite of normalization, typically in order to optimize its performance.
- deodorizers — Plural form of deodorizer.
- deodorizing — Present participle of deodorize.
- deoxidizing — Present participle of deoxidize.
- deoxygenize — deoxygenate.
- depauperize — to make (a person) poor
- depolarized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolarize.
- depolarizer — a substance added to the electrolyte of an electric cell or battery to remove gas collected at the electrodes.
- deprivatize — (transitive) To strip the privacy from; to make public.
- deracialize — to remove racial characteristics from (a person)
- derecognize — to cease to recognize (a trade union) as having special negotiating rights within a company or industry
- dermatozoon — any microscopic animal or protozoan living as a parasite on or in the skin of the host.
- desacralize — to render less sacred; to secularize
- desalinized — Simple past tense and past participle of desalinize.
- desalinizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desalinize.
- descloizite — a mineral, lead zinc vanadate.
- desensitize — To desensitize someone to things such as pain, anxiety, or other people's suffering, means to cause them to react less strongly to them.
- deserialize — (transitive, computing) To parse (serialized data) so as to reconstruct the original object.
- desexualize — to deprive of sexual characteristics by the surgical removal of the testicles or ovaries; castrate or spay
- desilverize — to extract silver from (metal)
- desocialize — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- destabilize — To destabilize something such as a country or government means to create a situation which reduces its power or influence.
- destalinize — (transitive) To free from the influence of w Joseph Stalin.
- desterilize — to bring back from a sterile state; specif., to release (gold) from a neutralized position into an active position in the monetary system where it can support credit and monetary issues
- desulfurize — to remove sulfur from
- detribalize — to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their characteristic customs or social, religious, or other organizational features
- devirginize — To cause someone to no longer be a virgin, often by having sex with them.
- devitalized — to deprive of vitality or vital properties; make lifeless; weaken.
- devitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devitalize.
- devocalized — Simple past tense and past participle of devocalize.
- diabolizing — Present participle of diabolize.
- diagonalize — (in linear algebra) to convert a square matrix into a diagonal matrix
- dialkylzinc — (organic chemistry) Any organometallic compound of zinc containing two alkyl groups.
- diamondized — Simple past tense and past participle of diamondize.
- diazo group — the bivalent group –N=N– united with one hydrocarbon group and another atom or group, as in benzenediazo hydroxide, C 6 H 5 N=NOH, or the bivalent group =N=N united with one hydrocarbon group, as in diazomethane, CH 2 =N=N.
- diazoalkane — any diazo compound having the general formula R 2 CN 2 , where R is hydrogen or any saturated organic group, as diazomethane, CH 2 N 2 .
- dichotomize — to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications
- digitalized — Medicine/Medical. to treat (a person) with a regimen of digitalis.
- diplomatize — to use diplomacy or tact.
- discretized — Simple past tense and past participle of discretize.
- disorganize — to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
- disthronize — to dethrone
- disyllabize — to make disyllabic.
- dizzy spell — attack of vertigo
- dockization — the process of turning into docks