12-Letter Words Ending in G

ABSOLUTIZE

AEROSOLIZE

""AGGRANDIZE To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.""

ALKALINIZE

""ALLEGORIZE To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. as, to allegorize the history of a people.""

ANTAGONIZE To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

""APOSTATIZE To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.""

AUTOMATIZE same as automate.automate.

AUTOTOMIZE cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

AXIOMATIZE

BASTARDIZE To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

""BESTIALIZE To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.""

POLARIZING polarize

""BITUMINIZE To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.""

BOLSHEVIZE

""BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

BURGLARIZE

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

CARAMELIZE to to convert

CATABOLIZE

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

Causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing.decentralizing.

CHANNELIZE

CINEMATIZE

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

CONCERTIZE

CONCRETIZE

CRYSTALIZE

""DECIMALIZE To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. as, to decimalize the currency.""

COLONIZING colonize

COLORIZING colorize

FEMINIZING feminize

DEFINITIZE

HUMANIZING humanize

LOCALIZING localize

MOBILIZING mobilize

MONETIZING monetize

Discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.encouraging.

POLARIZING polarize

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

SALINIZING salinize

VITALIZING vitalize

VOCALIZING vocalize

""DIGITALIZE to record digitally, e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.""

DOLOMITIZE

EPITHELIZE

ETERNALIZE To make eternal.

""EVANGELIZE To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world. as, to evangelize the world.""

FANATICIZE To cause to become a fanatic.

""FEDERALIZE To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution.""

FICTIONIZE

""FRATERNIZE To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.""

""GELATINIZE To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t. Gelatinate, v. t.""

GENERALIZE To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

GEOMETRIZE To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.

GLAMOURIZE

GORMANDIZE To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.

GRAPHITIZE

""GRECIANIZE To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.""

HEATHENIZE To render heathen or heathenish.

""HOMOGENIZE To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.""

HOMOLOGIZE To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

IDEOLOGIZE

ILLEGALIZE To make or declare illegal or unlawful.

""IMMOBILIZE To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.""

INDIGENIZE

Starting a computer application

ITALIANIZE To play the Italian; to speak Italian.

JEOPARDIZE To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard.

JOURNALIZE To enter or record in a journal or diary.

KERATINIZE

LATERALIZE

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

""LEXICALIZE To make into a word, coin into a word; as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English.as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English.""

LIBERALIZE To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.

""LITERALIZE To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture. spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.""

LOBOTOMIZE

""LYOPHILIZE to freeze-dry; -- a technique used to dry serum, tissue, unstable chemicals and other sensitive materials.""

LYSOGENIZE

""MACADAMIZE To cover, as a road, or street, parking lot, playground, or other flat area, with macadam, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.macadam, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.""

METABOLIZE To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism. Metabolism.

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

MINERALIZE To transform into a mineral.

MISSIONIZE

MOISTURIZE

""MONGRELIZE To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.""

""MONOPOLIZE To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land. as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.""

MUSICALIZE

""NATURALIZE To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. as, custom naturalizes labor or study.""

NEUTRALIZE To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.

OXIDIZING oxidize

PALATALIZE To palatize.

PARASITIZE

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

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

PLASMOLYZE

PLASTICIZE

POLEMICIZE

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.""

""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.""

PRESSURIZE

PRIORITIZE

The best in show champion taking first place

PROLOGUIZE

RADICALIZE

CANALIZING canalize

COLONIZING colonize

ENERGIZING energize

REGULARIZE To cause to become regular; to regulate.

HUMANIZING humanize

RELATIVIZE

MOBILIZING mobilize

MONETIZING monetize

ORGANIZING organize

POLARIZING polarize

VALORIZING valorize

VITALIZING vitalize

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

""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.

""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.""

""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.""

Dieter's aim.

SOLUBILIZE

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

""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

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

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

SYNCRETIZE

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

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

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

THERMALIZE

Pioneering

Setting the path alight while doing pioneering work (wordplay)

TRAUMATIZE

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

TRIVIALIZE

APPETIZING appetize

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

WEATHERIZE

WESTERNIZE