6-letter words that end in ate
- inmate — a person who is confined in a prison, hospital, etc.
- innate — existing in one from birth; inborn; native: innate musical talent.
- iodate — Chemistry. a salt of iodic acid, as sodium iodate, NaIO 3 .
- jubate — covered with long hairs resembling a mane.
- jugate — Botany. having the leaflets in pairs, as a pinnate leaf.
- karate — a method developed in Japan of defending oneself without the use of weapons by striking sensitive areas on an attacker's body with the hands, elbows, knees, or feet. Compare judo, jujitsu.
- kinate — Alternative form of quinate.
- lanate — woolly; covered with something resembling wool.
- legate — an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
- libate — to pour out (a liquid, esp wine) in honour of a deity
- ligate — to bind with or as if with a ligature; tie up (a bleeding artery or the like).
- litate — (botany) forked, with the points slightly curved outward.
- lobate — having a lobe lobes; lobed.
- locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- lorate — strap-shaped
- lunate — Also, lunated. being in the shape of a crescent; crescent-shaped.
- luxate — to put out of joint; dislocate: The accident luxated the left shoulder.
- lyrate — Botany. (of a pinnate leaf) divided transversely into several lobes, the smallest at the base.
- lysate — the mixture of substances formed by the lysis of cells.
- malate — a salt or ester of malic acid.
- mecate — Southwestern U.S. a rope made of horsehair or sometimes maguey.
- metate — a flat stone that has a shallow depression in the upper surface for holding maize or other grains to be ground with a mano.
- micate — to add mica to
- mucate — a salt of mucic acid
- mutate — to change; alter.
- negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
- nidate — (of a new embryo) to undergo nidation, to implant (oneself) in the uterus
- notate — to note, mark, or set down in a system of notation: The book describes how to notate music for instruments and voice.
- novate — To replace something with something new.
- nutate — to undergo or show nutation.
- oblate — flattened at the poles, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis (opposed to prolate).
- oleate — Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
- opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- optate — (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
- ornate — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- osmate — a salt of osmic acid
- outate — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- pedate — having a foot or feet.
- pilate — Pontius [pon-shuh s,, -tee-uh s] /ˈpɒn ʃəs,, -ti əs/ (Show IPA), flourished early 1st century a.d, Roman procurator of Judea a.d. 26–36?: the final authority concerned in the condemnation and execution of Jesus Christ.
- pirate — software pirate
- pupate — to become a pupa.
- ramate — having branches; branching out or off.
- rebate — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- redate — to change the date of (something)
- relate — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
- remate — to mate (animals) again
- rotate — to cause to turn around an axis or center point; revolve.
- rugate — wrinkle; rugose.
- savate — a sport resembling boxing but permitting blows to be delivered with the feet as well as the hands.