19-letter words containing z
- miniature schnauzer — one of a German breed of sturdily built terriers resembling a smaller version of the standard schnauzer, having a wiry, pepper-and-salt, black, or black-and-silver coat, a rectangular head, bushy whiskers, and a docked tail, and originally developed as a farm dog but now raised primarily as a pet.
- mischaracterization — The act of characterizing something in an inaccurate or misleading way.
- mohammed zahir shah — 1914–2007, king of Afghanistan 1933–73.
- montezuma's revenge — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Mexico.
- naberezhniye chelny — city in E European Russia, on the Kama River: pop. 514,000
- new zealand spinach — a plant, Tetragonia tetragonioides, of warm regions, cultivated for its edible leaves, eaten as a vegetable.
- non-standardization — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- occupational hazard — a danger or hazard to workers that is inherent in a particular occupation: Silicosis is an occupational hazard of miners.
- on the razor's edge — a sharp-edged instrument used especially for shaving the face or trimming the hair.
- over-centralization — the act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.
- over-commercialized — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- paradichlorobenzene — a white, crystalline, volatile, water-insoluble solid, C 6 H 4 Cl 2 , of the benzene series, having a penetrating odor: used chiefly as a moth repellent.
- parainfluenza virus — any of a group of viruses that cause respiratory infections with influenza-like symptoms, esp in children
- photopolymerization — polymerization induced by light.
- pirates of penzance — an operetta (1879) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
- postsynchronization — the process of adding sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting or videotaping is completed
- privatization issue — an issue of shares available for purchase by members of the public when a publicly owned organization is transferred to the private sector
- professionalization — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- reconceptualization — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- reindustrialization — the revitalization of an industry or industrial society through government aid and tax incentives, modernization of factories and machinery, etc.
- relief organization — humanitarian group
- resplendent quetzal — See under quetzal (def 1).
- restriction enzymes — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of DNA molecules at specific sites: used for gene splicing in recombinant DNA technology and for chromosome mapping.
- safety-squeeze-play — Baseball. Also called suicide squeeze, suicide squeeze play. a play executed when there is a runner on third base and usually not more than one out, in which the runner starts for home as soon as the pitcher makes a motion to pitch, and the batter bunts. Also called safety squeeze, safety squeeze play. a similar play in which the runner on third base waits until the batter has successfully bunted before trying to score.
- saint simon zelotes — one of the 12 apostles, who had probably belonged to the Zealot party before becoming a Christian (Luke 6:15). Owing to a misinterpretation of two similar Aramaic words he is also, but mistakenly, called the Canaanite (Matthew 10:4). Feast day: Oct 28 or May 10
- san juan de la cruz — San Juan de la [sahn hwahn de lah] /sɑn ʰwɑn dɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA), John of the Cross, Saint.
- self-aggrandizement — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
- social organization — the structure of social relations within a group, usually the relations between its subgroups and institutions.
- socialized medicine — any of various systems to provide the entire population with complete medical care through government subsidization and regularization of medical and health services.
- specialized subject — a school or university subject that concentrates on a particular field of knowledge
- stabilization print — a print made by the stabilization process.
- tanizaki jun-ichiro — 1886–1965, Japanese novelist, whose works, such as Some Prefer Nettles (1929) and The Makioka Sisters (1943–48), reflect the tension between Western values and Japanese traditions
- unorganized ferment — ferment (def 2).
- vertical stabilizer — the fixed vertical surface of an aircraft empennage, to which the rudder is hinged.
- zebra-tailed lizard — a lizard, Callisaurus draconoides, inhabiting sandy deserts of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., having a long tail marked with black bands.
- zenithal projection — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it, either at one of the poles (polar zenithal), at the equator (equatorial zenithal), or between (oblique zenithal)
- zero and add packed — (language) (ZAP) An IBM 360/370 assembly language instruction used when performing packed arithmatic to initialise an accumulator.
- zero-base budgeting — a process in government and corporate finance of justifying an overall budget or individual budgeted items each fiscal year or each review period rather than dealing only with proposed changes from a previous budget. Abbreviation: ZBB.
- zero-hours contract — an employment contract which does not oblige the employer to provide regular work for the employee, but requires the employee to be on call in the event that work becomes available
- zone of illuviation — B horizon.