12-Letter Words Containing Z

""NORMALIZE To make normal; as, to normalize relations with China.as, to normalize relations with China.""

""NOTARIZE to attest to as a notary, also NOTARISE""

""NOVELIZE to put into the form of a novel, also NOVELISE""

""OPTIMIZE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMISE""

""The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.""

ORIENTALIZE to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

Orientalize

OUTORGANIZE

Outorganize

ANALYZED analyze

Overanalyze

""IDEALIZE to regard as perfect, also IDEALISE""

""ORGANIZE to form into an organic whole, also ORGANISE""

UTILIZED utilize

Overutilize

Ozonization

Ozonosphere

PALATALIZE To palatize.

Fossils

See cholecystokinin .

""The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.""

Paralyzing

""PARAMETER A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.""

PARAMETRIZE

Parametrize

PARASITIZE

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

PARFOCALIZE

Parfocalize

Pasteurizer

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

The act of punishing.

Pentazocine

""A crystalline compound, C 21 H 26 ClN 3 OS, used as a tranquilizer especially in the treatment of psychosis and to prevent or alleviate nausea and vomiting.""

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Personalize

PHAGOCYTIZE

Phagocytize

Speculate superficially

PHOSPHATIZE

Phosphatize

PHOTOIONIZE

Photoionize

PHOTOLYZE

PHOTOOXIDIZE

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

Plagiarizer

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

PLASMOLYZE

Plasticizer

PLASTICIZE

""The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.""

POLEMICIZE

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

POLITICIZE

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Popularizer

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

PORCELAIN Purslain.

Pressurizer

PRESSURIZE

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

PRIORITIZE

English word

Any game show contestant (wordplay)

Clay, for one.

Professional athlete.

Prizewinner

The best in show champion taking first place

""A potent antineoplastic drug, C 12 H 19 N 3 O, used primarily to treat advanced Hodgkin's disease.""

PROLOGUIZE

PROPAGANDIZE

""PROSELYTIZE To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

One who proselytes.

Proselytize

""; protozoologist , Biology""

PRUSSIANIZE

Prussianize

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

Having the head full of confused notions.

""QUANTIZE to express in terms of quanta, also QUANTISE""

QUIZZICAL Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.

""RACEMIZE to change into racemic form, also RACEMISE""

RADICALIZE

""RATIONALIZE To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.""

""RATIONALIZE To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.""

Rationalize

Realization

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

Reauthorize

CANALIZING canalize

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Capable of being recognized.

COGNIZABLY In a cognizable manner.

""An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal. recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.""

COLONIZING colonize

EMPHASIZED Having stress or emphasis.

Reemphasize

ENERGIZING energize

""REFLECTOR One who, or that which, reflects.""

REGIONALIZE

Regionalize

REGULARIZE To cause to become regular; to regulate.

HUMANIZING humanize

Inflected form of HYPNOTIZED Inflected form of HYPNOTIZE To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.

Rehypnotize

RELATIVIZE

""MILITARIZE to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.""

MOBILIZING mobilize

MONETIZING monetize

Rendezvous

Rendezvous

Reorganizer

ORGANIZING organize

POLARIZING polarize

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

Inflected form of PRESSURIZE Inflected form of PRESSURE to apply force to

Inflected form of PRIVATIZED Inflected form of PRIVATIZE

Reprivatize

""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.""

Resensitize

Inflected form of SOCIALIZED Inflected form of SOCIALIZE To render social.

Resocialize

Inflected form of STABILIZED Inflected form of STABILIZE

Restabilize

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

VALORIZING valorize

VITALIZING vitalize

""RHAPSODIZE To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody""

Rhizoctonia

Rhizosphere

""ROBOTIZE to make automatic, also ROBOTISE""

""ROMANIZE to write in the Roman alphabet, also ROMANISE""

ROMANTICIZE

Romanticize

""SALINIZE to treat with salt, also SALINISE""

""SANITIZE to clean and sterilize, also SANITISE, SANITATE""

""SCANDALIZE To offend the feelings of the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.""

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Schismatize

Schizogony

""Reproduction by multiple asexual fission, characteristic of many sporozoans.""

English word

Shmaltzy

Scrutinizer

""SCRUTINIZE To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.""

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

Secularizer

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

SECURITIZE

""SENSUALIZE To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Singularize

""SKELETONIZE To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

""Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the appleleaf skeletonizer. as, the appleleaf skeletonizer.""

Skeletonize

Sleaziness

Dieter's aim.

Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

Does a stage routine.

Solmization

SOLUBILIZE

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

SPERMATOZOA

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

""To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Standardize

""STIGMATIZE To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.""

STRATEGIZE

Stylization

""Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.""

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

OPTIMIZED optimize

Suboptimize

URBANIZED urbanize

Suburbanize

VOCALIZED vocalize

Subvocalize

""A sulfa drug, C 10 H 10 N 4 O 2 S, used in the treatment of toxoplasmosis and other infections.""

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

Suzerainty

SYMMETRIZE To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

Sympathizer

""SYMPATHIZE To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.""

SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

Camera device.

Synchronize

SYNCRETIZE

SYNONYMIZE To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.

Synthesizer

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

""SYSTEMATIZE To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""

One who systematizes.

Systematize