15-letter words containing za
- ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
- parametrization — a parametric representation; the act of representing as or defining parameters
- pastoralization — to make pastoral or rural.
- personalization — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- phonemicization — a grouping of phonemes
- phoneticization — the representation of speech in writing using a system in which individual symbols reflect speech sounds in a regular manner
- photoionization — the phenomenon in which the absorption of electromagnetic radiation by an atom in a gas induces the atom to emit a bound electron and thereby become ionized.
- physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.
- preequalization — preemphasis.
- proletarization — to proletarianize.
- propylitization — the alteration of igneous rock to propylite
- rationalization — to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- reauthorization — the act or process of reauthorizing something
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
- regionalization — the process or tendency of dividing a country into administrative regions
- renormalization — the action or process of normalizing or causing to conform to a norm or normal state again
- reprivatization — the action or process of reprivatizing, or an instance thereof
- resensitization — the state or process of being sensitized.
- resocialization — the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new social role.
- restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
- revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
- romanticization — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
- saint elizabeth — the wife of Zacharias, mother of John the Baptist, and kinswoman of the Virgin Mary. Feast day: Nov 5 or 8
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- self-ionization — to separate or change into ions.
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- standardization — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- subcivilization — a division of a civilization
- suboptimization — a situation which is less than optimal
- suborganization — an organization within a larger organization
- suburbanization — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
- subvocalization — the act or process of producing subvocal speech
- systematization — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- tropicalization — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
- tuberculization — the process of becoming, or of causing people or animals to become, infected with tuberculosis
- uncategorizable — not able to be categorized or placed into a category
- vascularization — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- victoria nyanza — Victoria (def 10).
- zapata mustache — a large mustache that curves down the corners of the mouth.