Rhymes with advocate
ad·vo·cate
A a Two-syllable rhymes
Three-syllable rhymes
- abdicate — If a king or queen abdicates, he or she gives up being king or queen.
- abrogate — If someone in a position of authority abrogates something such as a law, agreement, or practice, they put an end to it.
- abstinent — forbearance from any indulgence of appetite, especially from the use of alcoholic beverages: total abstinence.
- accident — An accident happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage.
- acclimate — When you acclimate or are acclimated to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
- accurate — careful and exact
- acetate — Acetate is a shiny artificial material, sometimes used for making clothes or records.
- activate — If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.
- activist — An activist is a person who works to bring about political or social changes by campaigning in public or working for an organization.
- adamant — If someone is adamant about something, they are determined not to change their mind about it.
- adequate — If something is adequate, there is enough of it or it is good enough to be used or accepted.
- adjutant — An adjutant is an officer in the army who deals with administrative work.
- adulate — to flatter or praise obsequiously
- affricate — a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point, such as the sound written ch, as in chair
- aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
- aggregate — An aggregate amount or score is made up of several smaller amounts or scores added together.
- agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- allocate — If one item or share of something is allocated to a particular person or for a particular purpose, it is given to that person or used for that purpose.
- alphabet — An alphabet is a set of letters usually presented in a fixed order which is used for writing the words of a particular language or group of languages.
- amputate — To amputate someone's arm or leg means to cut all or part of it off in an operation because it is diseased or badly damaged.
- amulet — An amulet is a small object that you wear or carry because you think it will bring you good luck and protect you from evil or injury.
- analyst — An analyst is a person whose job is to analyse a subject and give opinions about it.
- animate — Something that is animate has life, in contrast to things like stones and machines which do not.
- animism — the belief that natural objects, phenomena, and the universe itself have desires and intentions
- annotate — If you annotate written work or a diagram, you add notes to it, especially in order to explain it.
- annulment — The annulment of a contract or marriage is an official declaration that it is invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.
- antiquate — to make obsolete or old-fashioned
- aqueduct — An aqueduct is a long bridge with many arches, which carries a water supply or a canal over a valley.
- battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
- battlement — a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures, originally for shooting through
- cabinet — A cabinet is a cupboard used for storing things such as medicine or alcoholic drinks or for displaying decorative things in.
- calculate — If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine.
- calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
- anti-calvinistic — the doctrines and teachings of John Calvin or his followers, emphasizing predestination, the sovereignty of God, the supreme authority of the Scriptures, and the irresistibility of grace. Compare Arminianism.
- candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
- castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
- catalyst — You can describe a person or thing that causes a change or event to happen as a catalyst.
- catapult — A catapult is a device for shooting small stones. It is made of a Y-shaped stick with a piece of elastic tied between the two top parts.
- classicist — A classicist is someone who studies the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, especially their languages, literature, and philosophy.
- delicate — Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
- fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- fascinate — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- flagellate — to whip; scourge; flog; lash.
- flatulent — generating gas in the alimentary canal, as food.
- graduate — a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
- halibut — either of two large flatfishes, Hippoglossus hippoglossus, of the North Atlantic, or H. stenolepis, of the North Pacific, used for food.
- laminate — to separate or split into thin layers.
- latinate — of, like, pertaining to, or derived from Latin.
- magistrate — a civil officer charged with the administration of the law.
- management — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
- navigate — to move on, over, or through (water, air, or land) in a ship or aircraft: to navigate a river.
- palpitate — to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly.
- panelist — a member of a small group of persons gathered for formal public discussion, judging, playing a radio or television game, etc.
- passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- salivate — to produce saliva.
- strangulate — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- tabulate — to put or arrange in a tabular, systematic, or condensed form; formulate tabularly.
- vaccinate — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- validate — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- abandonment — The abandonment of a place, thing, or person is the act of leaving it permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
- adversary — Your adversary is someone you are competing with, or arguing or fighting against.
- advocacy — Someone's advocacy of a particular action or plan is their act of recommending it publicly.
- advocated — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocating — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- amalgamate — When two or more things, especially organizations, amalgamate or are amalgamated, they become one large thing.
- anatomist — An anatomist is an expert in anatomy.
- antagonist — Your antagonist is your opponent or enemy.
- assassinate — When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
- certificate — A certificate is an official document stating that particular facts are true.
- coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- compassionate — If you describe someone or something as compassionate, you mean that they feel or show pity, sympathy, and understanding for people who are suffering.
- concatenate — to link or join together, esp in a chain or series
- congratulate — If you congratulate someone, you say something to show you are pleased that something nice has happened to them.
- contaminant — A contaminant is something that contaminates a substance such as water or food.
- contaminate — If something is contaminated by dirt, chemicals, or radiation, they make it dirty or harmful.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- diaconate — the office, sacramental status, or period of office of a deacon
- 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.
- dispassionate — free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
- inadequate — not adequate or sufficient; inept or unsuitable.
- inanimate — not animate; lifeless.
- inhabitant — a person or animal that inhabits a place, especially as a permanent resident.
- intransigent — refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
- italianate — Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.
- lead acetate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, Pb(C 2 H 3 O 2) 2 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles and as a drier in paints and varnishes.
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- nationalist — a person devoted to nationalism.
- naturalist — a person who studies or is an expert in natural history, especially a zoologist or botanist.
- philanthropist — a person who practices philanthropy.
- procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- protagonist — the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- reactivate — to render active again; revive.
- recalculate — to calculate again, especially for the purpose of finding an error or confirming a previous computation.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- decontaminate — To decontaminate something means to remove all germs or dangerous substances from it.
- inevitable — unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
- line management — those managers in an organization who are responsible for the main activity or product of the organization, as distinct from those, such as transport, accounting, or personnel, who provide services to the line management
- psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
- televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
- undergraduate — a student in a university or college who has not received a first, especially a bachelor's, degree.
- vocabulary — the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons: His French vocabulary is rather limited. The scientific vocabulary is constantly growing.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- cellulose acetate — nonflammable material made by acetylating cellulose: used in the manufacture of film, dopes, lacquers, and artificial fibres
- cerebral aqueduct — The channel in the brain which connects the third ventricle to the fourth ventricle. It is surrounded by the periaqueductal gray.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- polyvinyl acetate — a colorless, odorless, nontoxic, transparent, thermoplastic, water-insoluble resin used as an adhesive in certain paints and as an intermediate in the synthesis of polyvinyl acetal and polyvinyl alcohol.