12-letter words containing late
- matrilateral — related through the mother, as to a maternal uncle.
- methacrylate — an ester or salt derived from methacrylic acid.
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- mistranslate — Translate (something) incorrectly.
- multilateral — having several or many sides; many-sided.
- multungulate — a hoofed animal with three or more toes on each foot
- nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
- nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
- nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
- notoungulate — one of the herbivorous, hoofed mammals of the extinct order Notoungulata, best known from the Paleocene to the Pleistocene Epochs of South America.
- number plate — vehicle's registration panel
- oblanceolate — inversely lanceolate, as a leaf.
- on the slate — on credit
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- patrilateral — related through the father.
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.
- plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
- plate girder — an iron or steel beam built up from plates and shapes welded or riveted together, usually including a plate or plates for a web, four angle irons forming two flanges, and a pair of plates to reinforce the flanges.
- plate warmer — a device for warming plates
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- purlin plate — (in a curb roof) a purlin at the top of a lower slope supporting the ends of the upper rafters at the curb.
- quartz plate — a carefully cut quartz crystal that is piezoelectrically active. Compare crystal (def 10).
- re-calculate — to calculate again, especially for the purpose of finding an error or confirming a previous computation.
- reaccumulate — to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up: to accumulate wealth.
- rearticulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- reassimilate — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- recapitulate — to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
- recirculated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- rubber latex — the milky sap of any of several trees of the genus Hevea, especially H. brasiliensis, from which natural rubber is derived.
- scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- septilateral — having seven sides.
- sieve-plates — an elongated cell whose walls contain perforations (sieve pores) that are arranged in circumscribed areas (sieve plates) and that afford communication with similar adjacent cells.
- silver plate — thin coat of silver
- silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
- slate quarry — a quarry where slate is mined
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- steel-plated — covered with steel
- straticulate — made up of or arranged in thin layers.
- strike plate — strike (def 67).
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
- testiculated — like a testicle, esp in shape
- trabeculated — having trabeculae, transversely barred
- trifoliolate — having three leaflets, as a compound leaf.