Words that rhyme with miscalculate
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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] -
ate
n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment -
berate
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] -
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] -
calculate
v 1: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure] 2: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast] 3: keep an account of [syn: account, calculate] 4: predict in advance [syn: forecast, calculate] 5: specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public [syn: calculate, aim, direct] 6: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon] -
capitulate
v 1: surrender under agreed conditions -
circulate
v 1: become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" [syn: go around, spread, circulate] 2: 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] 3: cause be distributed; "This letter is being circulated among the faculty" [syn: circulate, pass around, pass on, distribute] 4: move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point; "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate" 5: move in circles [syn: circle, circulate] 6: cause to move in a circuit or system; "The fan circulates the air in the room" 7: move around freely; "She circulates among royalty" 8: cause to move around; "circulate a rumor" [syn: mobilize, mobilise, circulate] -
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" -
confabulate
v 1: unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory 2: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit] 3: have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action" [syn: confer, confabulate, confab, consult] -
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] -
date
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" -
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 -
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] -
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 -
matriculate
n 1: someone who has been admitted to a college or university v 1: enroll as a student -
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 -
osculate
v 1: be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate" 2: have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate" 3: touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room" [syn: snog, kiss, buss, osculate] -
overpopulate
v 1: cause to have too great a population; "Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated" -
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] -
peculate
v 1: appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family" [syn: embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate] -
perambulate
v 1: make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property); "Selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years" 2: walk with no particular goal; "we were walking around in the garden"; "after breakfast, she walked about in the park" [syn: perambulate, walk about, walk around] -
postulate
n 1: (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning [syn: postulate, posit] v 1: maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future" [syn: contend, postulate] 2: take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature" [syn: postulate, posit] 3: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of] -
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" -
recapitulate
v 1: summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas" [syn: recapitulate, recap] 2: repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life 3: repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate] -
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] -
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] -
speculate
v 1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" [syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose] 2: talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal" 3: 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] 4: invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating" [syn: speculate, job] -
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" -
tabulate
v 1: arrange or enter in tabular form [syn: table, tabularize, tabularise, tabulate] 2: shape or cut with a flat surface -
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 -
cannulate
v 1: introduce a cannula or tube into; "Cannulate the blood vessel in the neck" [syn: cannulate, cannulize, cannulise, intubate, canulate] -
pustulate
adj 1: (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin [syn: acned, pimpled, pimply, pustulate] -
sacculate
adj 1: formed with or having saclike expansions; "the alimentary tract is partially sacculated" [syn: sacculated, sacculate] -
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] -
mandibulate
adj 1: having mandibles -
annulate
adj 1: shaped like a ring [syn: annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, ringed, ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped] -
serrulate
adj 1: minutely serrated -
bedplate
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fasciculate
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infibulate
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jugulate
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soleplate
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aydt
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baseplate
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ait
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benlate
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baffleplate
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cellulate
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recirculate
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repopulate
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valleculate
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scrobiculate
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ligulate
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vamplate
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subulate
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