7-letter words that end in te
- papeete — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- partite — divided into parts, usually into a specified number of parts (usually used in combination): a tripartite agreement.
- pectate — a salt or ester of pectic acid.
- peltate — having the stalk or support attached to the lower surface at a distance from the margin, as a leaf; shield-shaped.
- pennate — winged; feathered.
- perlite — a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- permute — to alter; change.
- pesante — in a forceful or weighty manner
- phenate — a phenic acid salt
- phonate — to articulate speech sounds, esp to cause the vocal cords to vibrate in the execution of a voiced speech sound
- phorate — a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 1 7 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- phytate — a salt or ester of phytic acid, occurring in plants, especially cereal grains, capable of forming insoluble complexes with calcium, zinc, iron, and other nutrients and interfering with their absorption by the body.
- picante — prepared so as to be very hot and spicy, especially with a hot and spicy sauce.
- picrate — a salt or ester of picric acid.
- picrite — a granular igneous rock composed chiefly of olivine and augite, but containing small amounts of feldspar.
- pileate — having a pileus.
- pinnate — resembling a feather, as in construction or arrangement; having parts arranged on each side of a common axis: a pinnate branch; pinnate trees.
- pipette — a slender graduated tube used in a laboratory for measuring and transferring quantities of liquids from one container to another.
- pittite — one of the spectators at the theatre who occupy the theatre pit
- pituite — mucus
- placate — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- planate — having a plane or flat surface.
- plicate — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- plumate — resembling a feather, as a hair or bristle that bears smaller hairs.
- pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- popette — a young female fan or performer of pop music
- portate — sitting diagonally across a heraldic shield
- predate — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- prelate — an ecclesiastic of a high order, as an archbishop, bishop, etc.; a church dignitary.
- prenote — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- prevote — a formal expression of opinion or choice, either positive or negative, made by an individual or body of individuals.
- primate — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- private — privacy
- probate — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- proette — a female golfing professional
- prolate — elongated along the polar diameter, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its longer axis (opposed to oblate).
- promote — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- pronate — to turn into a prone position; to rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the surface of the palm is downward or toward the back; to turn (the sole of the foot) outward so that the inner edge of the foot bears the weight when standing.
- prorate — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- pycnite — an off-white to yellow variety of topaz
- quinate — arranged in groups of five.
- quixote — Don, Don Quixote.
- quorate — A quorum.
- radiate — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- recolte — a harvest; crop.
- recrate — to pack into a crate again
- reflate — to increase again the amount of money and credit in circulation.
- regrate — to dress or tool (existing stonework) anew.
- reigate — a city in Surrey in SE England, a London suburb.