8-letter words that end in ate
- quadrate — square or rectangular.
- racemate — a salt or ester of racemic acid.
- radicate — to (cause to) take root
- raindate — an alternative date proposed in case of rain
- ramsgate — a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- recreate — to create anew.
- reduzate — a sediment that has not undergone oxidation, as of coal, oil, sulfur, and sulfides.
- regelate — to freeze by regelation.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- relegate — to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
- relocate — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- remigate — to row
- renegate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- renovate — to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.
- resinate — to treat with resin, as by impregnation.
- resonate — to resound.
- roommate — a person who is assigned to share or shares a room or apartment with another or others.
- rosinate — a salt or acid occurring in resin
- rostrate — furnished with a rostrum.
- rosulate — forming a rosette or rosettes.
- rotovate — to break up (the surface of the earth, or an area of ground) using a Rotavator
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- runagate — a fugitive or runaway.
- saginate — to fatten (livestock)
- salivate — to produce saliva.
- sanitate — to make sanitary; equip with sanitary appliances: to sanitate a new town.
- saturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- scyphate — being in the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- sea gate — a navigable channel giving access to the sea.
- seatmate — a person who shares a seat or occupies the seat next to oneself on a bus, plane, etc.
- selenate — a salt or ester of selenic acid.
- seminate — disseminated; scattered; strewn
- separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- serenate — a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
- sericate — sericeous; silky.
- shipmate — a person who serves with another on the same vessel.
- sibilate — to hiss.
- siderate — to strike violently
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- solidate — a parcel of land whose value is equal to a solidus
- somegate — in some manner
- somniate — to dream
- sonicate — a thing which has been subjected to sound waves
- sororate — subsequent or concurrent marriage with a wife's sister.
- soulmate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
- speciate — to form or develop into a new biological species
- spectate — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.