14-letter words containing za
- dextrinization — The process of dextrinizing.
- diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized
- digitalization — (in the treatment of heart disease) the administration of digitalis, usually in a regimen, to produce a desired physiological effect.
- discretization — the act or process of making mathematically discrete.
- dolomitization — the conversion of limestone into dolomite.
- dramatizations — Plural form of dramatization.
- earless lizard — any of several slender iguanid lizards of the genus Holbrookia, of the western U.S. and Mexico, that have no external ear opening.
- easternization — (usually initial capital letter) to influence with ideas, customs, etc., characteristic of eastern Asia.
- elegiac stanza — a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- envenomization — the introduction of poison into a body
- epithelization — Alternative form of epithelialization.
- evangelization — The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
- fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- finlandization — the neutralization of a country in terms of its allegiance to the superpowers, in the way that the Soviet Union rendered Finland neutral and friendly without making it a satellite state or requiring that it adopt Communism.
- fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- fraternization — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- frilled lizard — a medium-sized Australian lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingi, having a large, cloaklike flap of skin on the neck that stiffens during courtship or threat displays, forming a wide ruff.
- galvanizations — Plural form of galvanization.
- gelatinization — to make gelatinous.
- generalization — the act or process of generalizing.
- geometrization — the application of geometrical concepts to a different field
- glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
- globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
- glottalization — (linguistics) The act or process of constricting or closing the glottis during the production of a speech sound that normally does not involve such constriction.
- grangerization — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
- greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- homogenization — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- illegalization — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- immiserization — the process of immiserizing
- immobilization — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
- indigenization — to make indigenous.
- initialization — (uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
- inorganization — lack of organization.
- journalization — to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.
- juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
- keratinization — Conversion into keratin or keratinous tissue.
- 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.
- legitimization — to make legitimate.
- 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.
- lyophilization — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.