15-letter words containing za
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- desocialization — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- detribalization — to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
- diagonalization — (in linear algebra) the process of diagonalizing
- dichotomization — The act of dichotomizing or the thing dichotomized; classification.
- disorganization — a breaking up of order or system; disunion or disruption of constituent parts.
- encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
- endomycorrhizal — Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza.
- etherealization — The act or process of etherealizing.
- extemporization — The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
- extensivization — the process of (something) becoming more extensive, esp in agriculture
- exteriorization — The physical embodiment of an abstraction.
- externalization — A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
- familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- formularization — The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
- generalizations — Plural form of generalization.
- granulitization — the process whereby metamorphism acts on a rock and reduces it to crystalline grains
- hazard analysis — risk assessment
- hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.
- hibernicization — the process or act of making Irish
- historicization — Act or process of historicizing.
- hospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- hypnotizability — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypostatization — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
- immortalization — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- incentivization — (US, business, economics) The act or process of incentivizing.
- infantilization — The act or process of infantilizing, or treating a non-infant as an infant.
- interiorization — Act or process of interiorizing.
- internalization — to incorporate (the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group), as through learning, socialization, or identification.
- isoimmunization — the development of isoantibodies within an individual in order to protect against antigens derived from a different member of the same species
- lazaro cardenas — Lázaro [lah-sah-raw] /ˈlɑ sɑˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1970, Mexican general and political reformer: president 1934–40.
- liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
- lomas de zamora — a city in E Argentina, S of Buenos Aires.
- marginalization — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- masculinization — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- materialization — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- mathematization — The process of mathematizing.
- memorialization — to commemorate.
- mezzanine floor — intermediate level in a building
- miniaturization — to make in extremely small size in order to keep volume or weight to a minimum: to miniaturize electronic equipment.
- misvocalization — an incorrect or bad vocalization
- mythologization — The act or process of mythologizing.
- nationalization — to bring under the ownership or control of a nation, as industries and land: a movement to nationalize the oil industry.
- netzahualcoyotl — a city in S central Mexico, in the state of Mexico.
- nominalizations — Plural form of nominalization.
- oligomerization — (chemistry) The formation of an oligomer from a monomer.
- overutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.