12-letter words that end in ate
- multiseriate — arranged or occurring in one or more series.
- multisulcate — having many grooves or furrows
- multivariate — (of a combined distribution) having more than one variate or variable.
- multungulate — a hoofed animal with three or more toes on each foot
- nation-state — a sovereign state inhabited by a relatively homogeneous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality.
- nesosilicate — any silicate, as olivine, in which the SiO 4 tetrahedra are not interlinked.
- nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
- nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
- nitroscanate — The ether analogue of amoscanate, used in veterinary medicine as an anthelmintic.
- non-advocate — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- non-celibate — a person who abstains from sexual relations.
- non-graduate — a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
- nonaffiliate — One who is not an affiliate.
- noncandidate — a person who has not yet announced his or her availability for election to a political office or who has declared himself or herself not a candidate.
- noncarbonate — That which is not a carbonate.
- nonconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- noncorporate — Not corporate.
- nonphosphate — lacking or absent of a phosphate or phosphate compound
- notoungulate — one of the herbivorous, hoofed mammals of the extinct order Notoungulata, best known from the Paleocene to the Pleistocene Epochs of South America.
- number plate — vehicle's registration panel
- nutmeg state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
- oblanceolate — inversely lanceolate, as a leaf.
- obstreperate — to be extremely noisy or to create a resounding din
- of even date — of the same or today's date
- on aggregate — If one team beats another on aggregate, it wins because it has a higher total score than the other team after a series of games.
- on the slate — on credit
- orthoformate — an ester of orthoformic acid.
- out-of-state — of, relating to, or from another state of the U.S.: a car with an out-of-state license plate; out-of-state vacationers.
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- overactivate — to make active; cause to function or act.
- overdecorate — To decorate or embellish to an excessive degree.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overestimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- oversaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- paleoclimate — the climate of some former period of geologic time.
- pantothenate — a widely occurring derivative of pantothenic acid
- paraglossate — having paraglossae
- parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
- patriarchate — the office, dignity, jurisdiction, province, or residence of an ecclesiastical patriarch.
- payment date — the date on which a payment (of a debt, bill, etc) is used to be paid
- penning gate — a sluice gate that opens by lifting upward.
- pentahydrate — a hydrate that contains five molecules of water, as potassium molybdate, KMoO 4 ⋅5H 2 O.
- peritrichate — (of bacteria) having flagella on the entire surface.
- permanganate — a salt of permanganic acid, as potassium permanganate.
- peroxyborate — perborate.
- phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- police state — a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.