11-letter words containing ze
- belize city — a port and the largest city in Belize, on the Caribbean coast: capital until 1973, when that function was transferred inland to Belmopan owing to hurricane risk. Pop: 53 000 (2005 est)
- bell bronze — an alloy of copper and tin that contains a high proportion (at least 20 per cent) of tin: used for bell founding
- berzerkeley — (humour) /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley" used especially to refer to the practices or products of the BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat, Missed'em-five, Berkeley Quality Software. Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported from as far back as the 1960s.
- biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
- blaze a way — to pioneer, set a direction or course, etc.
- booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
- brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
- breathalyze — If the driver of a car is breathalyzed by the police, they ask him or her to breathe into a special bag or device in order to test whether he or she has drunk too much alcohol.
- bronze dore — ormolu (def 2).
- bronze star — a U.S. military decoration awarded for heroism or achievement in military operations other than those involving aerial flights.
- calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
- canadianize — to make Canadian in character.
- canisterize — to put into canisters
- cannibalize — If you cannibalize something, you take it to pieces and use it to make something else.
- capitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of capitalize.
- capitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitalize.
- caramelized — Simple past tense and past participle of caramelize.
- caramelizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caramelize.
- cataloguize — to make a list of; catalogue
- categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- categorizes — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- catheterize — to insert a catheter into
- catholicize — to make or become catholic
- centralized — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralizer — A centralizer is a device fitted with a hinged collar to keep the casing or liner in the center of the wellbore.
- centralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of centralize.
- channelized — Simple past tense and past participle of channelize.
- chaptalized — Simple past tense and past participle of chaptalize.
- chernozemic — of or relating to a chernozem
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- cinematized — Simple past tense and past participle of cinematize.
- circularize — to distribute circulars to
- circumcized — Simple past tense and past participle of circumcize.
- citizenhood — The state of being a citizen.
- citizenries — Plural form of citizenry.
- citizenship — If you have citizenship of a country, you are legally accepted as belonging to it.
- civilianize — to change the status of (an armed force, a base, etc) from military to nonmilitary
- classicized — Simple past tense and past participle of classicize.
- clorazepate — a benzodiazepine, C 16 H 13 ClN 2 O 4 , used in the treatment of chronic anxiety states and as an adjunct in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
- colonialize — to make colonial
- commoditize — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- communalize — to render (something) the property of a commune or community
- computerize — To computerize a system, process, or type of work means to arrange for a lot of the work to be done by computer.
- concertized — Simple past tense and past participle of concertize.
- concretized — Simple past tense and past participle of concretize.
- consumerize — to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption: to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
- conveyorize — to install conveyor belts in (a factory, etc)
- corporatize — to convert (a government-controlled industry or enterprise) into an independent company
- cosmeticize — to give (someone or something) a cosmetic treatment
- criminalize — If a government criminalizes an action or person, it officially declares that the action or the person's behaviour is illegal.