10-letter words containing ate
- definately — Misspelling of definitely.
- deflagrate — to burn or cause to burn with great heat and light
- defoliated — Simple past tense and past participle of defoliate.
- defoliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defoliate.
- degenerate — If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
- dehydrated — (of organisms) deprived of vital water or moisture
- dehydrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrate.
- delaminate — to divide or cause to divide into thin layers
- delectated — to please; charm; delight.
- 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.
- delicately — fine in texture, quality, construction, etc.: a delicate lace collar.
- deliminate — To delimit, especially in the computing sense.
- delimitate — delimit.
- delineated — to trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; represent pictorially: He delineated the state of Texas on the map with a red pencil.
- delineates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delineate.
- delipidate — To remove the lipids from.
- demarcated — to determine or mark off the boundaries or limits of: to demarcate a piece of property.
- demarcates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demarcate.
- demodulate — to carry out demodulation on (a wave or signal)
- demotivate — to cause (a person) to lose motivation
- denervated — Simple past tense and past participle of denervate.
- denigrated — Simple past tense and past participle of denigrate.
- denigrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denigrate.
- 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.
- deprecated — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprecate.
- depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
- depredated — to plunder or lay waste to; prey upon; pillage; ravage.
- depredates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depredate.
- 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.
- desecrated — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- desecrater — One who desecrates.
- desecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desecrate.
- desiccated — Desiccated things have lost all the moisture that was in them.
- desiccates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desiccate.
- desiderate — to feel the lack of or need for; long for; miss
- designated — (of a truth value) corresponding to truth in a two-valued logic, or having one of the analogous values in a many-valued logic
- designates — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- desolately — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- desquamate — (esp of the skin in certain diseases) to peel or come off in scales
- dessicated — Misspelling of desiccated.