12-Letter Words Containing Z

""TECHNICAL Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical. as, the words of an indictment must be technical.""

TECHNOLOGIZE

TEMPORALIZE

Temporalize

The production or condition of tetanus.

Tetrazolium

Theologizer

THEOLOGIZE To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology.

The act or product of theorizing; the formation of a theory or theories; speculation.

THERMALIZE

""A white or yellow powder, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , a derivative of phenothiazine, that is administered orally in the treatment of various psychotic conditions, anxiety, depression, and certain childhood behavioral disorders.""

THYMECTOMIZE

Totalizator

Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone

Lewis and Clark, for example.

They leap high in Portland

Pioneering

Setting the path alight while doing pioneering work (wordplay)

TRANQUILIZE

Soothing agent.

Sedative.

Sedates

""To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind.""

Pl. trapezohedrons or trapezohedra (-dr ) Any of several forms of crystal with trapeziums as faces.

TRAUMATIZE

""TRICHINIZE To render trichinous; to affect with trichin\'91; chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork. as, trichinized pork.""

TRIVIALIZE

Trophozoite

TROPICALIZE

Tropicalize

ANALYZABLE That may be analyzed.

APPETIZING appetize

""AUTHORIZED Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

""UTILIZE to make use of, also UTILISE""

""Inflected form of DRAMATIZED Inflected form of DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

FERTILIZED united with a male gamete to begin the development of an individual embryo; -- of female gametes.

Inflected form of GLAMORIZED Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Inflected form of HYDROLYZED Inflected form of HYDROLYZE

""IONIZATION the process of converting neutral atoms or molecules into ions. The process may occur by dissolving an ionic substance in a dissociating solvent, such as water, or by adding or subtracting an electron to or from an atom or molecule. The latter process occurs, for example, in an electron beam in a mass spectrometer and by interaction of substances with ionizing radiation.ionizing radiation.""

Unitization

To make universal; to generalize.

Not mechanized.

Inflected form of MODERNIZED Inflected form of MODERNIZE To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

Inflected form of PUBLICIZED Inflected form of PUBLICIZE

REALIZABLE Capable of being realized.

RECOGNIZED

""Inflected form of SENSITIZED Inflected form of SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

""Inflected form of STERILIZED Inflected form of STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

""Inflected form of SUBSIDIZED Inflected form of SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

Inflected form of VERBALIZED Inflected form of VERBALIZE To convert into a verb; to verbify.

""URBANIZE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANISE""

Utilization

""Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such action by Brazil.""

""The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.""

VASECTOMIZE

Vasectomize

""VELARIZE to pronounce with the back of the tongue, also VELARISE""

""The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.""

""The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.""

VOLATILIZE To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.

Vulcanizate

WEATHERIZE

WESTERNIZE

Wheeziness

Tiny top percent of one-percenters

Zoantharian

""The biological study of the geographic distribution of animals, especially the causes and effects of such distribution.""

Zoological

Zooplankter

Zooplankton

Pl. zoosporangia (-j - ) A sporangium in which zoospores develop.

""The domestication, breeding, and improvement of animals; the technology of animal husbandry.""

""Pl. zooxanthellae (-th l ) Any of various yellow-green algae that live symbiotically within the cells of other organisms, such as those of certain radiolarians and marine invertebrates.""

ZWITTERION

Pl. zygapophyses (-s z ) One of two usually paired processes of the neural arch of a vertebra that articulates with corresponding parts of adjacent vertebrae.

""One of the articular processes of a vertebra, of which there are usually four, two anterior and two posterior. See under Vertebra. Vertebra.""

Zygomorphy