13-letter words containing za
- dollarization — the conversion of a country's currency system into U.S. dollars.
- dragon lizard — Komodo dragon.
- dramatization — the act of dramatizing.
- economization — The act or practice of using resources to the best effect.
- electrization — the action of electrifying
- epidotization — the process of changing into epidote
- eroticization — The act or process of eroticizing.
- euthanization — The act or process of euthanizing.
- extravaganzas — Plural form of extravaganza.
- factorization — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- fertilization — an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
- fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
- feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
- flying lizard — flying dragon.
- formalization — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
- fossilization — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
- galvanization — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- ghettoization — The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area.
- glamorization — to make glamorous.
- globalization — the act of globalizing, or extending to other or all parts of the world: the globalization of manufacturing.
- glocalization — The practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations.
- granitization — a hypothetical process of forming granite.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- haphazardness — characterized by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness; determined by or dependent on chance; aimless.
- harmonization — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- hazard lights — Usually, hazard lights. an indicator light on a vehicle that flashes to warn that it is unexpectedly slowing down, reversing, or not moving.
- hazardousness — The condition of being hazardous.
- health hazard — something that is dangerous to health
- hellenization — to make Greek in character.
- herborization — the act or process of herborizing
- heroic stanza — elegiac stanza.
- hippo zarytus — ancient name of Bizerte.
- honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
- horned lizard — an insectivorous iguanid lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of western North America, having hornlike spines on the head and a flattened body covered with spiny scales.
- hyalinization — a condition in which normal tissue deteriorates into a homogeneous, translucent material.
- hybridization — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hymnal stanza — common measure (def 2).
- hymnal-stanza — common time.
- hyphenization — the act or use of hyphenation
- idealizations — Plural form of idealization.
- immunizations — Plural form of immunization.
- isomerization — (chemistry) the conversion of a compound into a different isomeric form.
- italicization — to print in italic type.
- jasperization — The act or process of jasperizing.
- labialization — to give a labial character to (a sound), for example, to round (a vowel).
- lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- linearization — The modification of a system such that its output is linearly dependent on its input.
- lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
- lizard's-tail — either of two marsh herbs of the genus Saururus, especially S. cernuus, of North America, having drooping spikes of fragrant, white flowers.