8-letter words containing ate
- dateline — the date and location of a story, placed at the top of an article
- datepalm — Alternative spelling of date palm.
- deaerate — to take air out of (something)
- dealbate — having a white exterior or covering
- debaters — Plural form of debater.
- 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.
- defeated — having suffered defeat; beaten
- defeater — to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis.
- defecate — When people and animals defecate, they get rid of waste matter from their body through their anus.
- definate — Misspelling of definite.
- deflated — having lost confidence, hope, or optimism
- deflater — a person or device that causes deflation
- deflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deflate.
- 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)
- dentated — having teeth
- 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.
- deviated — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
- deviates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deviate.
- dictated — to say or read (something) aloud for another person to transcribe or for a machine to record: to dictate some letters to a secretary.
- dictates — authoritative commands or rules
- digitate — Zoology. having digits or digitlike processes.
- dilatate — dilated; broadened.
- disrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disrate.
- 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
- dubplate — An acetate recording disk, typically one featuring a dub version of a reggae song that is not yet on general release.
- due date — deadline for payment
- eaten up — food: finished
- eateries — Plural form of eaterie.
- ecaudate — having no tail.
- echinate — bristly; prickly.
- ecostate — (of a leaf) having neither ribs nor nerves
- edentate — belonging or pertaining to the Edentata, an order of New World mammals characterized by the absence of incisors and canines in the arrangement of teeth and comprising the armadillos, the sloths, and the South American anteaters.
- educated — having undergone education: educated people.