14-letter words containing z
- initialization — (uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
- inorganization — lack of organization.
- journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
- journalization — to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.
- juan fernandez — a group of three islands in the S Pacific, 400 miles (645 km) W of and belonging to Chile: Alexander Selkirk, the alleged prototype of Robinson Crusoe, was marooned here 1704.
- juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
- keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
- king-sized bed — A king-sized bed is a bed that is the largest size available.
- kirghiz steppe — a steppe in Kazakhstan.
- kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
- laissez passer — a permit; pass, especially one issued in lieu of a passport.
- laissez-passer — a permit; pass, especially one issued in lieu of a passport.
- lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
- legitimatizing — Present participle of legitimatize.
- legitimization — to make legitimate.
- leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
- leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
- lemon squeezer — tool for extracting juice from lemons
- leopard lizard — any long-tailed lizard of the genus Gambelia, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having the body marked with spots and bars of dark or light brown or black.
- lexicalization — The act or process of lexicalizing.
- liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
- literalization — The act or process of literalizing.
- lobotomization — to perform a lobotomy on.
- localizability — The condition of being localizable.
- lopez de ayala — Pedro [pe-th raw] /ˈpɛ ðrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1332–1407, Spanish writer and statesman.
- louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
- lyophilization — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- macadamization — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
- machado y ruiz — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1875–1939, Spanish writer.
- mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
- mazar-e-sharif — a city in N Afghanistan, reputed burial place of the caliph Ali; trading, agricultural, and military centre. Pop: 254 000 (2005 est)
- mazar-i-sharif — a city in N Afghanistan.
- medicalization — The act or process of medicalizing.
- melodramatized — Simple past tense and past participle of melodramatize.
- metalloenzymes — Plural form of metalloenzyme.
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosize — (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
- methoxybenzene — anisole.
- methyl benzene — toluene
- militarization — to equip with armed forces, military supplies, or the like.
- mineralization — to convert into a mineral substance.
- minimalization — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- miscategorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- misrecognizing — Present participle of misrecognize.
- missionization — the work and practice of missionaries
- misutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- moderate-sized — not large or small
- modestly sized — moderately sized; not very large, but not small