8-letter words that end in ate
- arrogate — If someone arrogates to themselves something such as a responsibility or privilege, they claim or take it even though they have no right to do so.
- arsenate — a salt or ester of arsenic acid, esp a salt containing the ion A5O43–
- aseptate — not divided into cells or sections by septa
- asperate — (of plant parts) having a rough surface due to a covering of short stiff hairs
- aspirate — to articulate (a stop) with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
- assonate — to display assonance or match in sound
- augurate — The position or office of an augur.
- automate — To automate a factory, office, or industrial process means to put in machines which can do the work instead of people.
- backdate — If a document or an arrangement is backdated, it is valid from a date before the date when it is completed or signed.
- baldpate — a person with a bald head
- bandmate — a fellow member of a band
- bedplate — a heavy metal platform or frame to which an engine or machine is attached
- benzoate — any salt or ester of benzoic acid, containing the group C6H5COO– or the ion C6H5COO–
- biforate — having two openings, pores, or perforations
- bijugate — (of compound leaves) having two pairs of leaflets
- bilobate — divided into or having two lobes
- bit rate — the rate of flow of binary digits in a digital data-processing system, usually expressed as the number of bits per second
- bloviate — to talk at length, esp in an insubstantial but inflated manner
- braccate — (of birds) having feathered legs
- breviate — a short account; a summary
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- butylate — to introduce butyl into (a compound)
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- calceate — to shoe
- califate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- campmate — Someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.
- canidate — Eye dialect of candidate.
- canulate — Alternative form of cannulate.
- capitate — shaped like a head, as certain flowers or inflorescences
- caproate — a salt of caproic acid
- carinate — having a keel or ridge; shaped like a keel
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- casemate — an armoured compartment in a ship or fortification in which guns are mounted
- castrate — To castrate a male animal or a man means to remove his testicles.
- catenate — to arrange or be arranged in a series of chains or rings
- cavitate — to form cavities or bubbles
- celibate — Someone who is celibate does not marry or have sex, because of their religious beliefs.
- cellmate — In a prison, someone's cellmate is the person they share their cell with.
- chlorate — any salt of chloric acid, containing the monovalent ion ClO3–
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- chromate — any salt or ester of chromic acid. Simple chromate salts contain the divalent ion, CrO42–, and are orange
- clodpate — A blockhead; a dolt or fool.
- clubmate — A person who is in the same club as another person.
- clypeate — shaped like a round shield
- cocreate — to create jointly
- coequate — to equate with something else
- cogitate — If you are cogitating, you are thinking deeply about something.
- cohobate — to redistil (a distillate), esp by allowing it to mingle with the remaining matter
- coinmate — a fellow inmate
- colocate — to locate (two or more things) together