Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
noun
(obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
(uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.
An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.
The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
The state or quality of being civilized.
civilizatory
civilizatory
adj
That tends to civilize
coazervation
collectivize
collectivize
verb
To organize a farm or industrial enterprise on the basis of collective control
conservatize
conservatize
verb
To make or become conservative.
conveyorized
conveyorized
adj
Having been conveyorized.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conveyorize
conveyorizer
conveyorizes
conveyorizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conveyorize
convivialize
convivialize
verb
(intransitive) To socialize in a friendly manner.
devocalizing
devocalizing
verb
present participle of devocalize
devolatilize
devolatilize
verb
(intransitive) To lose volatile components
(transitive) To remove volatile components from
divinization
divinization
noun
The act or process of making divine.
evolutionize
evolutionize
verb
To cause, or to undergo change by means of evolution; to evolve
iarovization
jarovization
jarovization
noun
vernalization
koussevitzky
moravianized
muscovitized
noncivilized
noncivilized
adj
Not civilized.
nonvitalized
novelization
novelization
noun
A text novel that is an adaptation of a story from a visual medium such as film
The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization
objectivized
objectivized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of objectivize
ovariotomize
ovariotomize
verb
(transitive) To perform an ovariotomy upon.
overcivilize
overcivilize
verb
(transitive) To civilize excessively.
overdazzling
overdazzling
verb
present participle of overdazzle
overfeminize
overfeminize
verb
(transitive) To feminize excessively.
overhumanize
overhumanize
verb
(transitive) To overly humanize a nonhuman or subhuman entity.
overidealize
overidealize
verb
(transitive) To idealize to too great an extent.
overimmunize
overimmunize
verb
To provide with more immunizations than is necessary.
overiodizing
overmobilize
overmoralize
overorganize
overorganize
verb
(transitive) To organize in too much detail.
overoxidized
overoxidized
adj
Excessively oxidized
overpenalize
overpenalize
verb
To penalize excessively
overtheorize
overtheorize
verb
(intransitive) To theorize too much.
overunionize
overurbanize
overutilized
overutilized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overutilize
overutilizes
overutilizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overutilize
overwomanize
privatdozent
privatdozent
noun
In some European countries, an academic who holds all formal qualifications (doctorate and habilitation) to become a tenured university professor.
provencalize
pulverizator
revalorizing
revalorizing
verb
present participle of revalorize
revaporizing
revaporizing
verb
present participle of revaporize
revolatilize
revolatilize
verb
To volatilize again
severization
slavonianize
sovereignize
sovereignize
verb
(obsolete) To exercise supreme authority.
(transitive) To make into a sovereign; to promote to ruler.
subvocalized
subvocalized
adj
Expressed by speaking inwardly
verb
simple past tense and past participle of subvocalize
subvocalizes
subvocalizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subvocalize
univocalized
unvolatilize
vagabondized
vagabondized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vagabondize
vagabondizer
vagabondizer
noun
A vagabond or wanderer.
valorization
valorization
noun
Alternative spelling of valorisation
vaporization
vaporization
noun
A conversion of a solid or a liquid into a gas.
A destruction of something by turning it into vapor.
vapourizable
vapourizable
adj
Oxford British English form of vaporizable
vasectomized
vasectomized
adj
That has been subjected to vasectomy
verb
simple past tense and past participle of vasectomize
vasectomizes
vasectomizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vasectomize
velarization
velarization
noun
(phonology) The act or process of velarizing.
velloziaceae
venalization
venalization
noun
The process of venalizing.
venomization
venomization
noun
The treatment of a substance with snake venom.
vermilionize
vermilionize
verb
(transitive) To make red.
victorianize
virilization
virilization
noun
Development of the sex characteristics that are typically found in men.
vitalization
vitalization
noun
The act of vitalizing; enlivenment; vivification.
vitriolizing
vitriolizing
verb
present participle of vitriolize
vizardmonger
vocalization
vocalization
noun
(music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
(orthography) The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
(orthography, phonology) The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
(phonology) The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people or the coda one in words like cold or coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in African American Vernacular English, one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.
Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
The use of speech to express an idea
volatilizing
volatilizing
verb
present participle of volatilize
vowelization
vowelization
noun
(linguistics) In Arabic and Hebrew - supplying the vowels (diacritics), normally not written to show the correct pronunciation, used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners. Arabic terms: tashkiil (تشكيل), taHriik (تحريك) - (action of supplying the vowel points), also known as ḥarakāt (حركات — the singular is ḥaraka حركة) - (the diacritical marks), Hebrew term: ניקוד nikud.