11-letter words that end in ze
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- decarbonize — to remove carbon from (the walls of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine)
- decarburize — decarbonize
- decartelize — to break up (a cartel)
- decasualize — to replace the casual workers in (a business) with permanent employees
- decerebrize — to remove the cerebrum of (an animal)
- decocainize — To remove cocaine from.
- decommunize — to return (property) from public to private ownership
- dedramatize — to cause to be less dramatic
- deemphasize — to place less emphasis upon; reduce in importance, size, scope, etc.: The university de-emphasized intercollegiate football.
- deep freeze — A deep freeze is the same as a freezer.
- deep-freeze — to quick-freeze (food).
- defeudalize — to reverse the process of feudalization
- deformalize — to make (something) less formal
- degenderize — to free from any association with or dependence on gender: to degenderize employment policies.
- deglamorize — to make (a person or thing) less glamorous
- dehypnotize — to bring out of the hypnotic state
- delabialize — to deprive (a sound) of labial character, as in unrounding a vowel.
- demagnetize — to lose magnetic properties or remove magnetic properties from
- demesmerize — (transitive) To relieve from mesmeric influence.
- democratize — If a country or a system is democratized, it is made democratic.
- demutualize — If a savings and loan association or an insurance company demutualizes, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a different kind of company.
- demythicize — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
- denormalize — (transitive, databases) To add redundancy to (a database schema), the opposite of normalization, typically in order to optimize its performance.
- deoxygenize — deoxygenate.
- depauperize — to make (a person) poor
- deprivatize — (transitive) To strip the privacy from; to make public.
- deracialize — to remove racial characteristics from (a person)
- derecognize — to cease to recognize (a trade union) as having special negotiating rights within a company or industry
- desacralize — to render less sacred; to secularize
- desensitize — To desensitize someone to things such as pain, anxiety, or other people's suffering, means to cause them to react less strongly to them.
- deserialize — (transitive, computing) To parse (serialized data) so as to reconstruct the original object.
- desexualize — to deprive of sexual characteristics by the surgical removal of the testicles or ovaries; castrate or spay
- desilverize — to extract silver from (metal)
- desocialize — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- destabilize — To destabilize something such as a country or government means to create a situation which reduces its power or influence.
- destalinize — (transitive) To free from the influence of w Joseph Stalin.
- desterilize — to bring back from a sterile state; specif., to release (gold) from a neutralized position into an active position in the monetary system where it can support credit and monetary issues
- desulfurize — to remove sulfur from
- detribalize — to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their characteristic customs or social, religious, or other organizational features
- devirginize — To cause someone to no longer be a virgin, often by having sex with them.
- diagonalize — (in linear algebra) to convert a square matrix into a diagonal matrix
- dichotomize — to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications
- diplomatize — to use diplomacy or tact.
- disorganize — to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
- disthronize — to dethrone
- disyllabize — to make disyllabic.
- domesticize — To make domestic; domesticate.
- electrolyze — Subject to or treat by electrolysis.
- emblematize — Serve as a symbolic representation of (a quality or concept).