Words ending in "-ZATION"

adaptation to a new climate

making real or giving the appearance of reality

the act of putting in alphabetical order

the formal act of pronouncing accursed

an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities

separating something into fine particles

an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized

an act that debases or corrupts

the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent

the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner

the production of a canal or a conversion to canals

the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens)

the operation of introducing a catheter into the body

the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing

management through specified channels of communication

circulating printed notices as a means of advertising

the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism

the organization of a nation of the basis of communism

the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

the control of processes by computer

inventing or contriving an idea or explanation

the act of conventionalizing

the formation of crystals

the spread of power away from a core to local branches or governments

the act of changing to a decimal system

the action of changing from colonial to independent status

the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities

the process of removing magnetization

abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone)

act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops

the action of making something democratic

ending something as no longer the legal tender of a country

to represent as diabolically evil

depression resulting from an undermining of your morale

the restatement of a message in rational terms

changing something from state to private ownership or control

representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality

a loss of polarity or polarization

the process of reducing sensitivity

the action of destabilizing; making something less stable

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

the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times

the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living

the act of reducing the vitality of something

changing a square matrix to diagonal form

the act of dividing into two sharply different categories

the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders

a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted

the ceremony of installing a new monarch

the act of making equal or uniform

a performance given extempore without planning or preparation

embodying in an outward form

attributing to outside causes

the experience of becoming familiar with something

the state of being under federal control

the process of becoming feminized

writing in a fictional form

the act of finalizing

the addition of a fluoride to the water supply

the act of bringing into focus

the act of making formal

stimulation with a galvanic current

the act of glamorizing

a piece of harmonized music

the process of making milk uniform by breaking fat into tiny particles

placing in medical care in a hospital

the act of making more human

the state of being hyaline or having become hyaline

(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

treatment of something abstract as a material thing

a portrayal of something as ideal

the act of admiring strongly

the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement

the act of making immune (especially by inoculation)

discriminating the individual from the generic group or species

(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

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict

learning that is incorporated within yourself

the act of bringing something under international control

the process of ionizing

the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself

organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and the cells become horny (as in nails and hair)

localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain

the act of making lawful

the process of making a word to express a concept

a determination of the place where something is

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

the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome

the extent or degree to which something is magnetized

the social process of becoming or being made marginal

the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)

the process of coming into being; becoming reality

a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something

act of making on a greatly reduced scale

establishing something as the legal tender of a country

domination to the exclusion of others

indulgence in moral pronouncements

the act of motorizing

the development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber

the restatement of a message as a myth

the act of nasalizing

changing something from private to state control

the imposition of standards or regulations

converting something into the form of a novel

process whereby opsonins make an invading microorganism more susceptible to phagocytosis

the act of rendering optimal

too much capitalization

exploitation to the point of diminishing returns

the process of oxidizing

an individualized description of a particular instance

partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food

the act of making someone poor

the act of punishing

the process of converting to a sol

the act of plagiarizing

the act of pluralizing or attributing plurality to

a chemical process that combines several monomers to form a polymer or polymeric compound

the act of making something attractive to the general public

the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood

the act of grinding to a powder or dust

the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory

the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular

a piece of music whose original harmony has been revised

the act of militarizing again

a set of drastic changes, such as to staff or policies

the act of indulging in sentiment

the act of making a piece of equipment rugged

making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing

the act of scandalizing

the act of reducing to a scheme or formula

the act of dividing or partitioning

the act of indulging in sentiment

publication in serial form

a conspicuous indication

exposure to the rays of the sun

the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual

a system of naming the notes of a musical scale by syllables instead of letters

the act of making something spiritual

the condition in which a standard has been successfully established

the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means)

the act of stigmatizing

the act of stylizing

the act of providing a subsidy

the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning

the relation that exists when things occur at the same time

systematic organization

the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously

the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it

the act of organizing as a territory

the act of inspiring with fear

the production or use of theories

(linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence; placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence is typical for English

act of forming labor unions

conversion of an investment trust into a unit investment trust

the state of having become filled with vacuoles

the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox

the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries

the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)

the state of being vitalized and filled with life

the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract

the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined