12-letter words that end in te
- congratulate — If you congratulate someone, you say something to show you are pleased that something nice has happened to them.
- conterminate — conterminous
- contriturate — to triturate completely
- cotton state — Alabama (used as a nickname).
- cotton waste — refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material
- counterstate — across state; traversing the state
- coyote state — South Dakota (used as a nickname).
- cristobalite — a white microcrystalline mineral consisting of silica and occurring in volcanic rocks. Formula: SiO2
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- curvicaudate — having a curved tail
- curvicostate — having curved ribs
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- cut-off date — the last date on which it is possible to do something
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- cyclandelate — a medicine for relaxing smooth muscle and encouraging blood cell dilation
- cyclostomate — having a round mouth
- d'oyly carte — Richard. 1844–1901, British impresario noted for his productions of the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan
- de-designate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- de-integrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- dearticulate — to disjoint, dislocate, or separate (something)
- decaffeinate — to remove all or part of the caffeine from (coffee, tea, etc)
- decapacitate — To reduce something's or someone's capability to do something.
- dechlorinate — to remove chlorine from (a substance)
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- deconsecrate — to transfer (a church) to secular use
- defenestrate — to throw (a person or a thing) out of a window
- defibrillate — to stop fibrillation of (the heart), as by the use of electric current
- deflocculate — to disperse, forming a colloid or suspension
- delegitimate — (transitive) to remove the legitimacy from.
- dental plate — a dental prosthesis; denture.
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- dextrogyrate — having dextrorotation
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- diisocyanate — (chemistry) Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane.
- dinner plate — a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
- disaffiliate — to sever affiliation with; disassociate: He disaffiliated himself from the political group he had once led.
- disaggregate — to separate (an aggregate or mass) into its component parts.
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disassociate — to dissociate.
- disconsolate — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- discorporate — Having no material body.
- discriminate — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- disincarnate — (Of a being) without a body.
- disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disintricate — (transitive) To disentangle.
- disorientate — to disorient.
- dispropriate — to deprive of ownership
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- double quote — (character) '"' ASCII character 34. Often used in programming languages to delimit strings. In Unix shells and Perl it delimits a string inside which variable substitution may occur. Common names: quote. Rare: literal mark; double-glitch; ITU-T: quotation marks; ITU-T: dieresis; dirk; INTERCAL: rabbit-ears; double prime.