10-letter words containing ate
- auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.
- autolysate — the substances resulting as the end product of autolysis
- autorotate — (of a rotor) to rotate around a central axis powered by aerodynamic forces
- avunculate — the custom in some societies of assigning rights and duties to a maternal uncle concerning his sister's son
- back water — to reverse the direction of a boat, esp to push the oars of a rowing boat to slow it down or stop it
- back-dated — If a purchase order or invoice is back-dated, it is given a date that is some time before the date it was actually prepared.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
- backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
- bagatelles — Plural form of bagatelle.
- barbellate — (of plants or plant organs) covered with barbs, hooks, or bristles
- bardolater — someone who practises bardolatry
- baseplates — Plural form of baseplate.
- basic rate — the standard or lowest level on a scale of money payable, esp in taxation
- batchmates — Plural form of batchmate.
- bath water — Your bath water is the water in which you sit or lie when you have a bath.
- beefeaters — Plural form of beefeater.
- benzoylate — to introduce the benzoyl group into (an organic compound).
- biannulate — having two bands, esp of colour
- bichromate — dichromate
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- biliterate — able to read and write in two languages.
- bill gates — (person) William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976).
- bimaculate — marked with two spots.
- bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
- binoxalate — an acid containing the group HC 2 O 4 –, as ammonium binoxalate, C 2 H 5 NO 4 ⋅H 2 O.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- biocellate — (of animals and plants) marked with two eyelike spots or ocelli
- biquadrate — the fourth power
- birostrate — having two beaks or beak-like projections
- birth rate — The birth rate in a place is the number of babies born there for every 1000 people during a particular period of time.
- birth-date — the date of a person’s birth, usually expressed as a specific day, month, and year.
- birthrates — birthrate
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bitartrate — (not in technical usage) a salt or ester of tartaric acid containing the monovalent group -HC4H4O6 or the ion HC4H4O6–
- blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- blind date — A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic evening with someone you have never met before.
- blue plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
- blue state — a state of the U.S. that usually votes Democratic.
- blue-plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
- blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
- branchiate — having gills.
- breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- brocatelle — a heavy brocade with the design in deep relief, used chiefly in upholstery
- browbeaten — intimidated
- browbeater — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.