Words that rhyme with matriculate

  • ablate
    v 1: wear away through erosion or vaporization 2: remove an organ or bodily structure
  • accumulate
    v 1: get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard] 2: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass]
  • articulate
    adj 1: expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings" [ant: inarticulate, unarticulate] 2: consisting of segments held together by joints [syn: articulated, articulate] [ant: unarticulated] v 1: provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood" [syn: joint, articulate] 2: put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate] 3: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say] 4: unite by forming a joint or joints; "the ankle bone articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle bones" 5: express or state clearly [syn: articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise]
  • at
    n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium [syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85] 2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
  • ate
    n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
  • bookplate
    n 1: a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted [syn: bookplate, ex libris]
  • breastplate
    n 1: armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass [syn: breastplate, aegis, egis]
  • coagulate
    adj 1: transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass; "coagulated blood"; "curdled milk"; "grumous blood" [syn: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumous, grumose] v 1: change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state; "coagulated blood" [syn: clot, coagulate] 2: cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state [syn: clot, coagulate]
  • collate
    v 1: compare critically; of texts 2: to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers"
  • conflate
    v 1: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge]
  • contemplate
    v 1: look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; "contemplate one's navel" 2: consider as a possibility; "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job" 3: think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "He is meditating in his study" [syn: study, meditate, contemplate] 4: 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]
  • copperplate
    n 1: a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings 2: a print made from an engraved copperplate 3: an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved [syn: copperplate, copperplate engraving]
  • cumulate
    v 1: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass]
  • deflate
    v 1: collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon" 2: release contained air or gas from; "deflate the air mattress" 3: reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence" [syn: deflate, puncture] 4: produce deflation in; "The new measures deflated the economy" [ant: inflate] 5: reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency" [ant: inflate] 6: become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated" [ant: blow up, inflate]
  • deregulate
    v 1: lift the regulations on [ant: govern, order, regularise, regularize, regulate]
  • disarticulate
    v 1: separate at the joints; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it" [syn: disjoint, disarticulate]
  • dissimulate
    v 1: hide (feelings) from other people
  • doorplate
    n 1: a nameplate fastened to a door; indicates the person who works or lives there
  • ejaculate
    n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come] v 1: utter impulsively; "He blurted out the secret"; "He blundered his stupid ideas" [syn: blurt out, blurt, blunder out, blunder, ejaculate] 2: eject semen
  • electroplate
    n 1: any artifact that has been plated with a thin coat of metal by electrolysis v 1: coat with metal by electrolysis; "electroplate the watch"
  • emasculate
    adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy] v 1: deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law" [syn: emasculate, castrate] 2: remove the testicles of a male animal [syn: emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise]
  • emulate
    v 1: strive to equal or match, especially by imitating; "He is emulating the skating skills of his older sister" 2: imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software 3: compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with; "This artist's drawings cannot emulate his water colors"
  • encapsulate
    v 1: enclose in a capsule or other small container 2: put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news" [syn: encapsulate, capsule, capsulize, capsulise]
  • faceplate
    n 1: a protective covering for the front of a machine or device (as a door lock or computer component)
  • fishplate
    n 1: metal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams
  • footplate
    n 1: the platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls
  • formulate
    v 1: elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis" [syn: explicate, formulate, develop] 2: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge] 3: put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate] 4: prepare according to a formula
  • gesticulate
    v 1: show, express or direct through movement; "He gestured his desire to leave" [syn: gesticulate, gesture, motion]
  • granulate
    v 1: form into grains [syn: granulate, grain] 2: become granular [syn: granulate, grain] 3: form granulating tissue; "wounds and ulcers can granulate"
  • hotplate
    n 1: a portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm [syn: hot plate, hotplate]
  • inarticulate
    adj 1: without or deprived of the use of speech or words; "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommittal"; "inarticulate with rage"; "an inarticulate cry" [syn: inarticulate, unarticulate] [ant: articulate]
  • inflate
    v 1: exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [syn: inflate, blow up, expand, amplify] 2: fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons" [syn: inflate, blow up] [ant: deflate] 3: cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; "The war inflated the economy" [ant: deflate] 4: increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency" [ant: deflate] 5: become inflated; "The sails ballooned" [syn: balloon, inflate, billow]
  • inoculate
    v 1: introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of; "My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs" 2: introduce a microorganism into 3: perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation; "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school" [syn: immunize, immunise, inoculate, vaccinate] 4: insert a bud for propagation 5: impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune
  • inosculate
    v 1: come together or open into each other; "the blood vessels anastomose" [syn: anastomose, inosculate] 2: cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis; "anastomose blood vessels" [syn: anastomose, inosculate]
  • insufflate
    v 1: breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit 2: treat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavity 3: blow or breathe hard on or into
  • insulate
    v 1: protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material; "We had his bedroom insulated before winter came" 2: place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" [syn: isolate, insulate]
  • legislate
    v 1: make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people spend their free time" [syn: legislate, pass]
  • manipulate
    v 1: influence or control shrewdly or deviously; "He manipulated public opinion in his favor" [syn: manipulate, pull strings, pull wires] 2: hold something in one's hands and move it 3: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent] 4: manipulate in a fraudulent manner; "rig prices" [syn: rig, manipulate] 5: control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage; "She manipulates her boss"; "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up"; "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line"; "she keeps in line" [syn: manipulate, keep in line, control] 6: treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed
  • miscalculate
    v 1: judge incorrectly; "I had misestimated his determination" [syn: miscalculate, misestimate] 2: calculate incorrectly; "I miscalculated the number of guests at the wedding" [syn: miscalculate, misestimate]
  • nameplate
    n 1: a plate bearing a name
  • oblate
    adj 1: having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles [syn: oblate, pumpkin-shaped] [ant: prolate, watermelon-shaped] n 1: a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
  • ovulate
    v 1: produce and discharge eggs; "women ovulate about once every month"
  • particulate
    adj 1: composed of distinct particles [ant: nonparticulate] n 1: a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) [syn: particulate, particulate matter]
  • prelate
    n 1: a senior clergyman and dignitary [syn: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate]
  • pullulate
    v 1: be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" [syn: teem, pullulate, swarm] 2: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate] 3: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout] 4: become abundant; increase rapidly 5: breed freely and abundantly
  • recalculate
    v 1: calculate anew; "The costs had to be recalculated"
  • reflate
    v 1: economics: experience reflation; "The economy reflated after the Fed took extreme measures" 2: economics: raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation; "These measures reflated the economy" 3: inflate again; "reflate the balloon" 4: become inflated again
  • reformulate
    v 1: formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis [syn: redevelop, reformulate]
  • regulate
    v 1: fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch" [syn: regulate, modulate] 2: bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate" [syn: regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern] [ant: deregulate] 3: shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion" [syn: determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate] 4: check the emission of (sound) [syn: baffle, regulate]
  • relate
    v 1: make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" [syn: associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect] [ant: decouple, dissociate] 2: be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" [syn: refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with] 3: give an account of; "The witness related the events" 4: be in a relationship with; "How are these two observations related?" [syn: relate, interrelate] 5: have or establish a relationship to; "She relates well to her peers"
  • reticulate
    adj 1: resembling or forming a network; "the reticulate veins of a leaf"; "a reticulated highway system" [syn: reticulate, reticular] [ant: nonreticulate] v 1: form a net or a network 2: distribute by a network, as of water or electricity 3: divide so as to form a network
  • simulate
    v 1: reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings" [syn: imitate, copy, simulate] 2: create a representation or model of; "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights" [syn: model, simulate] 3: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: simulate, assume, sham, feign]
  • stimulate
    v 1: act as a stimulant; "The book stimulated her imagination"; "This play stimulates" [syn: stimulate, excite] [ant: dampen, stifle] 2: cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa" [syn: induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make] 3: stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" [syn: stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir] 4: cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate" [syn: stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up] [ant: calm, de-energise, de-energize, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize] 5: cause to occur rapidly; "the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions" [syn: induce, stimulate, rush, hasten] 6: stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions" [syn: stimulate, excite, stir] 7: provide the needed stimulus for [syn: provoke, stimulate]
  • strangulate
    v 1: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes" [syn: strangle, strangulate, throttle] 2: constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air 3: become constricted; "The hernia will strangulate"
  • template
    n 1: a model or standard for making comparisons [syn: template, templet, guide]
  • triangulate
    adj 1: composed of or marked with triangles v 1: divide into triangles or give a triangular form to; "triangulate the piece of cardboard" 2: measure by using trigonometry; "triangulate the angle" 3: survey by triangulation; "The land surveyor worked by triangulating the plot"
  • ululate
    v 1: emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow" [syn: howl, ululate, wail, roar, yawl, yaup]
  • ungulate
    adj 1: having or resembling hoofs; "horses and other hoofed animals" [syn: ungulate, ungulated, hoofed, hooved] [ant: unguiculate, unguiculated] n 1: any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically [syn: ungulate, hoofed mammal]
  • vermiculate
    adj 1: infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms [syn: vermiculate, worm-eaten, wormy] 2: decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework" [syn: vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated] v 1: decorate with wavy or winding lines
  • stellate
    adj 1: arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center; "radial symmetry"; "a starlike or stellate arrangement of petals"; "many cities show a radial pattern of main highways" [syn: radial, stellate, radiate]
  • mantelet
    n 1: portable bulletproof shelter [syn: mantelet, mantlet] 2: short cape worn by women [syn: mantelet, mantilla]
  • omelet
    n 1: beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly [syn: omelet, omelette]
  • pilate
    n 1: the Roman procurator of Judea who ordered that Jesus be crucified (died in AD 36) [syn: Pilate, Pontius Pilate]
  • playlet
    n 1: a short play
  • stylet
    n 1: small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade
  • templet
    n 1: a model or standard for making comparisons [syn: template, templet, guide]
  • cannulate
    v 1: introduce a cannula or tube into; "Cannulate the blood vessel in the neck" [syn: cannulate, cannulize, cannulise, intubate, canulate]
  • lancelot
    n 1: (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere [syn: Lancelot, Sir Lancelot]
  • calceolate
    adj 1: of slipper-shaped blossoms; "the calceiform lip of certain orchids" [syn: calceolate, calceiform]
  • lanceolate
    adj 1: (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex [syn: lanceolate, lancelike]
  • vesiculate
    v 1: become vesicular or full of air cells; "The organs vesiculated" 2: cause to become vesicular or full of air cells; "vesiculate an organ"
  • auriculate
    adj 1: having auricles [syn: auriculate, auriculated]
  • annulate
    adj 1: shaped like a ring [syn: annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, ringed, ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped]
  • serrulate
    adj 1: minutely serrated
  • alit
  • bedplate
  • fasciculate
  • jugulate
  • soleplate
  • aydt
  • baseplate
  • hooklet
  • ait
  • benlate
  • baffleplate
  • cellulate
  • spiculate
  • petiolate
  • recirculate
  • valleculate
  • biarticulate
  • ligulate
  • vamplate

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