8-letter words that end in ate
- colorate — To apply color to something, make colourful.
- conchate — conchiform
- conflate — If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one.
- constate — to affirm
- contrate — (of gears, esp the gears of watches) having teeth set at a right angle to the axis
- copemate — a partner, comrade, paramour, or spouse
- copulate — If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
- corelate — to correlate.
- cornuate — (medicine) Being or pertaining to a hornlike structure, as with a bicornuate uterus.
- coronate — to crown (a person)
- corotate — to rotate in conjunction with something else that is rotating
- craniate — having a skull or cranium
- crewmate — a colleague on the crew of a boat or ship
- crispate — having a curled or waved appearance
- cristate — having a crest
- croceate — saffron-coloured
- cruciate — shaped or arranged like a cross
- crustate — having a crust or shell
- cultrate — shaped like a knife blade
- cumulate — to accumulate
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- cut rate — a price, fare, or rate below the standard charge.
- cut-rate — Cut-rate goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- deaerate — to take air out of (something)
- dealbate — having a white exterior or covering
- decimate — To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
- decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
- dedicate — If you say that someone has dedicated themselves to something, you approve of the fact that they have decided to give a lot of time and effort to it because they think that it is important.
- defecate — When people and animals defecate, they get rid of waste matter from their body through their anus.
- definate — Misspelling of definite.
- delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
- delibate — to take a small taste of (a liquid)
- delicate — Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
- deligate — (surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
- denegate — (obsolete, transitive) To deny.
- denotate — to denote (something)
- denudate — denuded; bare
- depilate — to remove the hair from
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- derivate — derived
- derogate — to cause to seem inferior or be in disrepute; detract
- desecate — (obsolete) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
- desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
- detonate — If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes.
- digitate — Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.
- dilatate — dilated; broadened.
- divagate — to wander; stray.
- dominate — to rule over; govern; control.
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- dubitate — to doubt or be uncertain