| destabilization | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilisation |
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| (noun) an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft) | - |
| destalinization | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinisation |
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| desynchronization | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronizing |
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| detribalization | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalisation |
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| (noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalisation |
| devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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| diagonalizable | (adjective) capable of being transformed into a diagonal matrix | - |
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| diagonalization | (noun) changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | Synonyms: diagonalisation |
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| dichotomization | (noun) the act of dividing into two sharply different categories | Synonyms: dichotomisation |
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| digitalization | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalisation |
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| digitization | (noun) conversion of analog information into digital information | Synonyms: digitisation |
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| disorganization | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganisation |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganisation |
| dramatization | (noun) a dramatic representation | Synonyms: dramatisation |
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| (noun) conversion into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatisation |
| enthronization | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, investiture |
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| equalization | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, leveling |
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| extemporization | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, improvisation |
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| exteriorization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, externalisation, externalization |
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| externalization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalisation |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalisation |
| extravaganza | (noun) any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment | - |
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| factorization | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorisation |
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| familiarization | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarisation |
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| federalization | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalisation |
| feminization | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminisation |
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| fertilizable | (adjective) capable of being fertilized | - |
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| fertilization | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, impregnation |
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| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fecundation, fertilisation |
| fictionalization | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalisation |
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| (noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalisation |
| finalization | (noun) the act of finalizing | Synonyms: finalisation |
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| fluoridization | (noun) the addition of a fluoride to the water supply (to prevent dental decay) | Synonyms: fluoridation, fluoridisation |
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| focalization | (noun) the act of bringing into focus | Synonyms: focalisation, focusing |
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| (noun) the confinement of an infection to a limited area | Synonyms: focalisation |
| formalization | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalisation |
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| fossilization | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilisation |
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| (noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilisation |
| fraternization | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternisation |
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| galvanization | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanisation |
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| (noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanisation |
| (noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanisation |
| gazania | (noun) any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers | - |
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| generalization | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generality |
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| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, induction, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalisation, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalisation |
| gizzard | (noun) thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food | Synonyms: gastric mill, ventriculus |
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| glamorization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamourisation, glamourization |
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| glamourization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourisation |
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| globalization | (noun) growth to a global or worldwide scale | Synonyms: globalisation |
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| guereza | (noun) a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body | Synonyms: Colobus guereza |
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| haphazard | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: slapdash, slipshod, sloppy |
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| (adjective) dependent upon or characterized by chance | Synonyms: hit-or-miss |
| (adverb) without care; in a slapdash manner | Synonyms: haphazardly |
| haphazardly | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| (adverb) without care; in a slapdash manner | Synonyms: haphazard |
| haphazardness | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: noise, randomness, stochasticity |
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| harmonizable | (adjective) capable of being made harmonious or consistent | - |
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| harmonization | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonisation |
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| (noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonisation |
| hazan | (noun) the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos | Synonyms: cantor |
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| hazard | (noun) an obstacle on a golf course | - |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, luck |
| (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, jeopardy, peril, risk |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, pretend, venture |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, jeopardize, stake, venture |
| hazardous | (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: risky, wild |
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| hazardously | (adverb) in a dangerous manner | Synonyms: dangerously, perilously |
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| hazardousness | (noun) the state of being dangerous | Synonyms: perilousness |
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| heroization | (noun) the act, or the result, of making someone into a hero. | - |
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| hierarchization | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchisation |
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| homogenization | (noun) the act of making something homogeneous or uniform in composition | Synonyms: homogenisation |
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| hospitalization | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalisation |
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| (noun) insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense | Synonyms: hospitalization insurance |
| (noun) the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital | - |
| (noun) a period of time when you are confined to a hospital | - |
| humanization | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanisation |
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| hyalinization | (noun) the state of being hyaline or having become hyaline | Synonyms: hyalinisation |
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| hybridization | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| hydrolyzable | (adjective) capable of undergoing hydrolysis | - |
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| hypostatization | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatisation, reification |
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| idealization | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealisation |
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| (noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealisation |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealisation |
| ideologization | (noun) the process of giving an ideological character or interpretation to; especially of changing or interpreting in relation to a sociopolitical ideology often seen as biased or limited. | - |
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| idolization | (noun) the act of worshiping blindly and to excess | Synonyms: idolisation |
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| (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: adoration, idolisation |
| immobilization | (noun) the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement | Synonyms: immobilisation, immobilizing |
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| (noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing | Synonyms: immobilisation |
| immunization | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunisation |
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| incognizable | (adjective) incapable of being perceived or known | Synonyms: incognoscible |
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| incognizance | (noun) a lack of knowledge or recognition | - |
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| incognizant | (adjective) (often followed by `of') not aware | Synonyms: unaware |
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| individualization | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualisation, individuation |
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| industrialization | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialisation |
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| influenza | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, grippe |
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| initialization | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialisation, low-level formatting |
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| intellectualization | (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict | Synonyms: intellectualisation |
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| internalization | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalisation |
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| internationalization | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalisation |
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| ionization | (noun) the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas | Synonyms: ionisation |
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| (noun) the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge) | Synonyms: ionisation |
| isomerization | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerisation |
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| itemization | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemisation, listing |
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| izar | (noun) a voluminous cotton outer garment (usually white) traditionally worn by Muslim women of northern Africa and the Middle East; covers the entire body | - |
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| izzard | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: ezed, Z, z, zed, zee |
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| keratinization | (noun) organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and the cells become horny (as in nails and hair) | Synonyms: keratinisation |
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| kwanza | (noun) the basic unit of money in Angola | - |
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| lateralization | (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: lateralisation, laterality |
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| lazar | (noun) a person afflicted with leprosy | Synonyms: leper |
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| lazaret | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazarette, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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| lazarette | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazaretto, pesthouse |
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| lazaretto | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, pesthouse |
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| (noun) a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship | Synonyms: glory hole |
| legalization | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legitimation |
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| lespedeza | (noun) shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States | Synonyms: bush clover |
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| lexicalization | (noun) the process of making a word to express a concept | Synonyms: lexicalisation |
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| liberalization | (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalisation, relaxation |
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| liza | (noun) similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region | Synonyms: Mugil liza |
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| lizard | (noun) relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail | - |
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| (noun) a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him | Synonyms: lounge lizard |
| lizardfish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: snake-fish, snakefish |
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| localization | (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, locating, location |
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| (noun) (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body | Synonyms: localisation, localisation of function, localisation principle, localization of function, localization principle |
| lyophilization | (noun) a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes | Synonyms: freeze-drying, lyophilisation |
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| lysogenization | (noun) the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome | Synonyms: lysogenisation |
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| macrozamia | (noun) any treelike cycad of the genus Macrozamia having erect trunks and pinnate leaves and large cones with sometimes edible nuts; Australia | - |
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| magnetization | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetisation |
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| (noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetisation |
| (noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetisation |
| manzanita | (noun) chiefly evergreen shrubs of warm dry areas of western North America | - |
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| (noun) evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning | Synonyms: Arbutus menziesii, madrona, madrono |
| marbleization | (noun) a texture like that of marble | Synonyms: marbleisation, marbleising, marbleizing |
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| marginalization | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalisation |
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