9-letter words containing ate
- aspartate — a salt formed from the amalgamation of a base and aspartic acid
- aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
- aspirates — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
- assonated — Simple past tense and past participle of assonate.
- astrogate — (science fiction, intransitive) To astronavigate; to control and guide a spacecraft.
- ateliosis — a form of infantilism caused by pituitary malfunction, characterized by a childish face and voice and associated physical underdevelopment, but not affecting intelligence.
- atemporal — having the quality of being uninfluenced, ungoverned or unchanged by time
- attenuate — To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
- auspicate — to begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good fortune
- automated — An automated factory, office, or industrial process uses machines to do the work instead of people.
- automates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automate.
- backdated — Put an earlier date to (a document or agreement) than the actual one.
- backdates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backdate.
- backplate — a plate of armour which guards the back
- backwater — A backwater is a place that is isolated.
- bagatelle — something of little value or significance; trifle
- baldpated — (archaic) Lacking hair on the head; bald.
- bandmates — Plural form of bandmate.
- bank rate — The bank rate is the rate of interest at which a bank lends money, especially the minimum rate of interest that banks are allowed to charge, which is decided from time to time by the country's central bank.
- base rate — In Britain, the base rate is the rate of interest that banks use as a basis when they are calculating the rates that they charge on loans.
- baseplate — a flat supporting plate or frame at the base of a column, designed to distribute the column's weight over a greater area and provide increased stability
- batchmate — (India) classmate.
- bathwater — water in which a person bathes
- baud rate — a rate of data transmission measured in baud
- bay state — Massachusetts
- be seated — to assume a seated position; sit down
- beaten-up — A beaten-up car or other object is old and in bad condition.
- beatenest — most remarkable or unusual: This is the beatinest town I ever did see.
- bedplates — Plural form of bedplate.
- bee eater — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae of tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, having a long downward-curving bill and long pointed wings and tail: order Coraciiformes (kingfishers, etc)
- bee-eater — any of several colorful birds of the family Meropidae, of the Old World tropics, that feed on bees and other insects.
- beefeater — Beefeaters are guards at the Tower of London. They wear a uniform made in the style of the sixteenth century.
- belatedly — coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
- bicaudate — having two tails or taillike appendages.
- bidentate — having two teeth or toothlike parts or processes
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- bigotgate — an incident in the 2010 British general election in which the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, described in private a voter he had met as a ‘bigoted woman’ not realizing that his radio microphone was still on and that his comments were being recorded
- bilabiate — divided into two lips
- bilateral — Bilateral negotiations, meetings, or agreements, involve only the two groups or countries that are directly concerned.
- bilineate — marked with two usually parallel lines.
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- bipinnate — (of pinnate leaves) having the leaflets themselves divided into smaller leaflets
- birthdate — Your birthdate is the same as your date of birth.
- birthrate — the number of births per year per thousand of population in a given community, area, or group: sometimes other units of time or population are used
- biseriate — (of plant parts, such as petals) arranged in two whorls, cycles, rows, or series
- biserrate — (of leaf margins, etc) having serrations that are themselves serrate