12-letter words containing z
- conservatize — to make or become conservative
- consumerized — to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption: to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
- containerize — to convey (cargo) in standard-sized containers
- contemporize — to be or make contemporary; synchronize
- conveyorized — to equip (a factory or the like) with conveyor belts.
- copolymerize — to react (two compounds) together to produce a copolymer
- corporealize — to make corporeal
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- crazy paving — Crazy paving is pieces of stone of different shapes fitted together to make a path or flat area.
- creolization — (of a pidgin language) the process of becoming a creole
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
- criticizable — to censure or find fault with.
- cryptanalyze — to study (a cryptogram) for the purpose of discovering the clear meaning; break (a code, cipher, etc.).
- cryptozygous — having the skull broad and the face narrow.
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- crystallizer — A crystallizer is a vessel or stage in which a crystal grows from a liquid.
- crystallizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crystallize.
- culturalized — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cutinization — a process in which the outermost plant cells become thickened and covered with cutin, making them waterproof
- cytoanalyzer — an electronic optical device for screening smears of cells suspected of being malignant.
- czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
- dactylozooid — (zoology) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora with an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth.
- dastardizing — Present participle of dastardize.
- de-emphasize — to remove emphasis from
- de-stalinize — to eliminate the influence of Stalin from
- dealcoholize — to remove some or all of the alcohol from (a drink).
- decapitalize — to make difficult to have or to take away stock or wealth from
- decarbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarbonize.
- decarbonizer — One who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
- decarburized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarburize.
- decategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- decentralize — To decentralize government or a large organization means to move some departments away from the main administrative area, or to give more power to local departments.
- decimalizing — Present participle of decimalize.
- decitizenize — to remove the rights of citizenship from (a person)
- decocainized — From which all cocaine has been removed.
- decolonizing — Present participle of decolonize.
- decommunized — Simple past tense and past participle of decommunize.
- dedolomitize — to transform (dolomite or dolomitic limestone) by separating the dolomite into calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate.
- deemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of deemphasize.
- deemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deemphasize.
- deep freezer — any freezer for quick-freezing and storing food
- defederalize — to shift the functions or powers of (an agency, service, etc.) from the jurisdiction of the federal government to that of state or local government: to defederalize construction loans.
- deformalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deformalize.
- degenderized — Simple past tense and past participle of degenderize.
- deglamorized — Simple past tense and past participle of deglamorize.
- dehumanizing — denying or depriving of dignity
- dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
- deionization — to remove ions from.