Rhymes with candidate
can·di·date
C c Two-syllable rhymes
- ballot — A ballot is a secret vote in which people select a candidate in an election, or express their opinion about something.
- bandit — Robbers are sometimes called bandits, especially if they are found in areas where the law has broken down.
- candid — When you are candid about something or with someone, you speak honestly.
- candle — A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light.
- candy — Candy is sweet foods such as toffees or chocolate.
- mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
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.
- acclimate — When you acclimate or are acclimated to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
- 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.
- adequate — If something is adequate, there is enough of it or it is good enough to be used or accepted.
- adulate — to flatter or praise obsequiously
- advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
- 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.
- agonist — any muscle that is opposed in action by another muscle
- alchemist — An alchemist was a scientist in the Middle Ages who tried to discover how to change ordinary metals into gold.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- annotate — If you annotate written work or a diagram, you add notes to it, especially in order to explain it.
- antiquate — to make obsolete or old-fashioned
- 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.
- candidacy — Someone's candidacy is their position of being a candidate in an election.
- cannabis — Cannabis is the hemp plant when it is used as a drug.
- 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.
- complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
- confident — If you are confident about something, you are certain that it will happen in the way you want it to.
- 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.
- 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.
- graduate — a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
- jansenism — the doctrinal system of Cornelis Jansen and his followers, denying free will and maintaining that human nature is corrupt and that Christ died for the elect and not for all humanity.
- 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.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- masochist — Psychiatry. a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation.
- 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.
- penetrate — to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
- pragmatist — a person who is oriented toward the success or failure of a particular line of action, thought, etc.; a practical person.
- salivate — to produce saliva.
- strangulate — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- 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
- 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.
- assassinate — When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
- coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- inadequate — not adequate or sufficient; inept or unsuitable.
- 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.
- philanthropist — a person who practices philanthropy.
- philatelist — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- reactivate — to render active again; revive.
- recalculate — to calculate again, especially for the purpose of finding an error or confirming a previous computation.
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- unanimous — of one mind; in complete agreement; agreed.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- decontaminate — To decontaminate something means to remove all germs or dangerous substances from it.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- cellulose acetate — nonflammable material made by acetylating cellulose: used in the manufacture of film, dopes, lacquers, and artificial fibres
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.