Words that rhyme with discriminate

• abate 0
  v 1: make less active or intense [syn: slake, abate, slack] 2: become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours" [syn: abate, let up, slack off, slack, die away]
• abominate 0
  v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]
• agglutinate 0
  adj 1: united as if by glue [syn: agglutinate, agglutinative] v 1: string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) 2: clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
• archidiaconate 0
  n 1: office or position of an archdeacon
• ate 0
  n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• await 0
  v 1: look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" [syn: expect, look, await, wait]
• backdate 0
  v 1: make effective from an earlier date; "The increase in tax was backdated to January"
• bait 0
  n 1: anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come- on, hook, lure, sweetener] 2: something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed [syn: bait, decoy, lure] v 1: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride] 2: lure, entice, or entrap with bait 3: attack with dogs or set dogs upon
• bate 0
  v 1: moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm" 2: flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons 3: soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"
• bayonet 0
  n 1: a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon v 1: stab or kill someone with a bayonet
• berate 0
  v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
• cabinet 0
  n 1: a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display 2: persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers 3: a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock [syn: cabinet, locker, storage locker] 4: housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television [syn: cabinet, console]
• carbonate 0
  n 1: a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3) v 1: turn into a carbonate 2: treat with carbon dioxide; "Carbonated soft drinks"
• collate 0
  v 1: compare critically; of texts 2: to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers"
• conflate 0
  v 1: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge]
• contaminate 0
  v 1: make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn: pollute, foul, contaminate] 2: make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated" [ant: decontaminate]
• coordinate 0
  adj 1: of equal importance, rank, or degree n 1: a number that identifies a position relative to an axis [syn: coordinate, co-ordinate] v 1: bring order and organization to; "Can you help me organize my files?" [syn: organize, organise, coordinate] 2: bring into common action, movement, or condition; "coordinate the painters, masons, and plumbers"; "coordinate his actions with that of his colleagues"; "coordinate our efforts" 3: be co-ordinated; "These activities coordinate well" 4: bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation; "align the wheels of my car"; "ordinate similar parts" [syn: align, ordinate, coordinate]
• crate 0
  n 1: a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping 2: the quantity contained in a crate [syn: crate, crateful] v 1: put into a crate; as for protection; "crate the paintings before shipping them to the museum" [ant: uncrate]
• create 0
  v 1: make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" [syn: make, create] 2: bring into existence; "The company was created 25 years ago"; "He created a new movement in painting" 3: pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity; "Don't disturb him--he is creating" 4: invest with a new title, office, or rank; "Create one a peer" 5: create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" [syn: create, make] 6: create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" [syn: produce, make, create]
• criminate 0
  v 1: bring an accusation against; level a charge against; "The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse" [syn: accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate] 2: rebuke formally [syn: reprimand, censure, criminate]
• culminate 0
  v 1: end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" [syn: culminate, climax] 2: bring to a head or to the highest point; "Seurat culminated pointillism" 3: reach the highest or most decisive point 4: reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body 5: rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest"
• date 0
  n 1: the specified day of the month; "what is the date today?" [syn: date, day of the month] 2: a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking" [syn: date, escort] 3: a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" [syn: date, appointment, engagement] 4: a particular but unspecified point in time; "they hoped to get together at an early date" [syn: date, particular date] 5: the present; "they are up to date"; "we haven't heard from them to date" 6: the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred; "he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class" 7: a particular day specified as the time something happens; "the date of the election is set by law" 8: sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed v 1: go on a date with; "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart" 2: stamp with a date; "The package is dated November 24" [syn: date, date stamp] 3: assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of; "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings" 4: date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!" [syn: go steady, go out, date, see] 5: provide with a dateline; mark with a date; "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated"
• debate 0
  n 1: a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on" [syn: argument, argumentation, debate] 2: the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) [syn: debate, disputation, public debate] v 1: argue with one another; "We debated the question of abortion"; "John debated Mary" 2: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberate] 3: discuss the pros and cons of an issue [syn: debate, deliberate] 4: have an argument about something [syn: argue, contend, debate, fence]
• decontaminate 0
  v 1: rid of contamination; "The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city" [ant: contaminate]
• denominate 0
  v 1: assign a name or title to [syn: designate, denominate]
• disseminate 0
  v 1: cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around]
• dominate 0
  v 1: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" [syn: predominate, dominate, rule, reign, prevail] 2: be in control; "Her husband completely dominates her" 3: have dominance or the power to defeat over; "Her pain completely mastered her"; "The methods can master the problems" [syn: dominate, master] 4: be greater in significance than; "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness" [syn: overshadow, dominate, eclipse] 5: look down on; "The villa dominates the town" [syn: dominate, command, overlook, overtop]
• dragonet 0
  n 1: small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom- dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America
• effeminate 0
  adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy]
• eliminate 0
  v 1: terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" [syn: extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with] 2: do away with [syn: obviate, rid of, eliminate] [ant: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take] 3: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off] 4: dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration" [syn: rule out, eliminate, winnow out, reject] 5: eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [syn: excrete, egest, eliminate, pass] 6: remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race" 7: remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
• exterminate 0
  v 1: kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" [syn: exterminate, kill off] 2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" [syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate]
• fulminate 0
  n 1: a salt or ester of fulminic acid v 1: criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies" [syn: fulminate, rail] 2: come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated" 3: cause to explode violently and with loud noise
• garnet 0
  n 1: any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive
• geminate 0
  n 1: a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate" v 1: form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: reduplicate, geminate] 2: occur in pairs [syn: pair, geminate] 3: arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers" [syn: pair, geminate] 4: arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in these words"
• germinate 0
  v 1: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout] 2: work out; "We have developed a new theory of evolution" [syn: evolve, germinate, develop] 3: cause to grow or sprout; "the plentiful rain germinated my plants"
• granite 0
  n 1: plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz 2: something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness); "a man of granite"
• hornet 0
  n 1: large stinging paper wasp
• illuminate 0
  v 1: make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit" [syn: light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate] 2: make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" [syn: clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate] 3: add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)
• incarnate 0
  adj 1: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate] 2: invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; "a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate" v 1: make concrete and real [ant: disincarnate] 2: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate]
• incriminate 0
  v 1: suggest that someone is guilty [syn: incriminate, imply, inculpate] 2: bring an accusation against; level a charge against; "The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse" [syn: accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate]
• ingeminate 0
  v 1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell]
• inordinate 0
  adj 1: beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: excessive, inordinate, undue, unreasonable]
• inseminate 0
  v 1: place seeds in or on (the ground); "sow the ground with sunflower seeds" [syn: inseminate, sow, sow in] 2: introduce semen into (a female) [syn: inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise]
• insubordinate 0
  adj 1: not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys" [ant: subordinate] 2: disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority [syn: insubordinate, resistant, resistive]
• laminate 0
  n 1: a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers v 1: create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material 2: press or beat (metals) into thin sheets 3: cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material; "laminate the table" 4: split (wood) into thin sheets
• nominate 0
  v 1: propose as a candidate for some honor [syn: nominate, put up, put forward] 2: put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission" [syn: nominate, propose] 3: charge with a function; charge to be; "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club" [syn: name, nominate, make] 4: create and charge with a task or function; "nominate a committee" [syn: appoint, name, nominate, constitute]
• obstinate 0
  adj 1: tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield [syn: stubborn, obstinate, unregenerate] [ant: docile] 2: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing [syn: cussed, obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant] 3: resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward] v 1: persist stubbornly; "he obstinates himself against all rational arguments"
• ordinate 0
  n 1: the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis v 1: appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" [syn: ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order] 2: bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation; "align the wheels of my car"; "ordinate similar parts" [syn: align, ordinate, coordinate]
• palatinate 0
  n 1: a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine [syn: Palatinate, Pfalz] 2: a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine
• pinnate 0
  adj 1: (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis [syn: pinnate, pinnated]
• pomegranate 0
  n 1: shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit [syn: pomegranate, pomegranate tree, Punica granatum] 2: large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind
• predominate 0
  adj 1: having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism" [syn: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating] v 1: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" [syn: predominate, dominate, rule, reign, prevail] 2: appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall" [syn: loom, tower, predominate, hulk]
• rabbinate 0
  n 1: rabbis collectively 2: the office or function of a rabbi
• recriminate 0
  v 1: return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return
• reincarnate 0
  adj 1: having a new body v 1: be born anew in another body after death; "Hindus believe that we transmigrate" [syn: reincarnate, transmigrate] 2: cause to appear in a new form; "the old product was reincarnated to appeal to a younger market" [syn: reincarnate, renew]
• rennet 0
  n 1: a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
• ruminate 0
  v 1: chew the cuds; "cows ruminate" 2: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate]
• senate 0
  n 1: assembly possessing high legislative powers 2: the upper house of the United States Congress [syn: United States Senate, U.S. Senate, US Senate, Senate]
• sonnet 0
  n 1: a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme v 1: praise in a sonnet 2: compose a sonnet
• subordinate 0
  adj 1: lower in rank or importance [syn: subordinate, low- level] [ant: dominant] 2: subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom" [ant: insubordinate] 3: (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence" [syn: dependent, subordinate] [ant: independent, main(a)] n 1: an assistant subject to the authority or control of another [syn: subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier] 2: a word that is more specific than a given word [syn: hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word] v 1: rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools" 2: make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler" [syn: subordinate, subdue]
• sultanate 0
  n 1: country or territory ruled by a sultan
• tenet 0
  n 1: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof [syn: dogma, tenet]
• terminate 0
  v 1: bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" [syn: end, terminate] [ant: begin, commence, get, get down, lead off, set about, set out, start, start out] 2: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: end, stop, finish, terminate, cease] [ant: begin, start] 3: be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie" [syn: end, terminate] 4: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire]
• turbinate 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages 2: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate] n 1: any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates [syn: turbinate bone, turbinate, turbinal]
• pectinate 0
  adj 1: like a comb
• lionet 0
  n 1: a small or young lion
• lunate 0
  adj 1: resembling the new moon in shape [syn: crescent(a), crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunate]
• bipinnate 0
  adj 1: of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as ferns)
• tripinnate 0
  adj 1: (of a leaf shape) thrice pinnate [syn: tripinnate, tripinnated]
• staminate 0
  adj 1: capable of fertilizing female organs [syn: antheral, staminate]
• bobbinet 0
• cannot 0
• polycarbonate 0
• aydt 0
• falconet 0
• janet 0
• ait 0
• pulmonate 0
• renominate 0
• resupinate 0
• garnett 0
• tabinet 0
• sinnott 0
• sinnet 0
• barnet 0
• verminate 0
• discarnate 0
• foraminate 0
• diaconate 0
• connaught 0
• subdiaconate 0

See also discriminate definition and discriminate synonyms