10-letter words that end in ate
- deliberate — If you do something that is deliberate, you planned or decided to do it beforehand, and so it happens on purpose rather than by chance.
- deliminate — To delimit, especially in the computing sense.
- delimitate — delimit.
- delipidate — To remove the lipids from.
- demodulate — to carry out demodulation on (a wave or signal)
- demotivate — to cause (a person) to lose motivation
- denominate — to give a specific name to; designate
- denunciate — to condemn; denounce
- deoppilate — to remove obstructions (from)
- depeditate — /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with "decapitate"] Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off letter descenders. Such letters are said to have been depeditated.
- depopulate — To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
- deracinate — to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
- deregulate — To deregulate something means to remove controls and regulations from it.
- desalinate — to remove the salt from (esp from sea water)
- desalivate — to arrest the flow of saliva in (a human or other animal).
- desaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- desiderate — to feel the lack of or need for; long for; miss
- desquamate — (esp of the skin in certain diseases) to peel or come off in scales
- detartrate — To remove tartrates, especially from fruit juices and wines, in order to reduce tartness or sourness.
- detoxicate — to rid (a patient) of a poison or its effects
- detruncate — to cut off a part of; truncate
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- digladiate — to contend or fight
- dijudicate — to make a decision or judgment about a matter that is disputed by two parties
- dilacerate — to tear apart or to pieces.
- dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- dilucidate — to elucidate
- dimethoate — a highly toxic crystalline compound, C 5 H 12 NO 3 PS 2 , used as an insecticide.
- disanimate — to deprive (a person or thing) of vigour or spirit
- discarnate — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- diseminate — Misspelling of disseminate.
- disilicate — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound containing two silicate anions.
- disinflate — (of an economy) to slow down the rate of inflation.
- dissertate — to discuss a subject fully and learnedly; discourse.
- dissociate — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- distillate — the product obtained from the condensation of vapors in distillation.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- dithionate — a salt of dithionic acid.
- divaricate — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- duumvirate — a coalition of two persons holding the same office, as in ancient Rome.
- ebracteate — having no bracts.
- ecalcarate — having no spur or calcar.
- ecardinate — (of a mollusc or the shell of a mollusc) having no hinges
- echinulate — (of a plant or animal) having a covering of prickles or small spines.
- echo plate — (in sound recording or broadcasting) an electromechanical device for producing echo and reverberation effects
- echolocate — To locate by means of echolocation.
- ecoclimate — the climate of a particular group of plants