Words that rhyme with periodate

v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: suit, accommodate, fit] 2: make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" [syn: adapt, accommodate] 3: provide with something desired or needed; "Can you accommodate me with a rental car?" 4: have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people" [syn: accommodate, hold, admit] 5: provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester" [syn: lodge, accommodate] 6: provide a service or favor for someone; "We had to oblige him" [syn: oblige, accommodate] [ant: disoblige] 7: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" [syn: accommodate, reconcile, conciliate]

v 1: be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools" [syn: predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate] [ant: follow, postdate] 2: establish something as being earlier relative to something else [syn: predate, antedate, foredate] [ant: postdate]

n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

v 1: make effective from an earlier date; "The increase in tax was backdated to January"

adj 1: having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth); "bicuspid teeth"; "bicuspid leaves" [syn: bicuspid, bicuspidate]

n 1: a politician who is running for public office [syn: campaigner, candidate, nominee] 2: someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) [syn: candidate, prospect]

adj 1: having a tail or taillike appendage [syn: caudate, caudated] [ant: acaudal, acaudate] 2: (of a leaf shape) tapering gradually into a long taillike tip n 1: a tail-shaped basal ganglion located in a lateral ventricle of the brain [syn: caudate nucleus, caudate] 2: amphibians that resemble lizards [syn: urodele, caudate]

v 1: unite into one; "The companies consolidated" 2: make firm or secure; strengthen; "consolidate one's gains"; "consolidate one's hold on first place" 3: bring together into a single whole or system; "The town and county schools are being consolidated" 4: form into a solid mass or whole; "The mud had consolidated overnight" 5: make or form into a solid or hardened mass; "consolidate fibers into boards"

adj 1: having cusps or points [syn: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated]

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"

v 1: bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse 2: fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay" [syn: decay, crumble, dilapidate]

v 1: make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" [syn: clarify, clear up, elucidate] [ant: obfuscate] 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]

v 1: subject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride; "fluoridized water"; "fluoridize the teeth of children" [syn: fluoridate, fluoridize, fluoridise]

v 1: arrange according to grades; "These lines are gradated" 2: pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another; "The paint on these walls gradates but you don't see it"

v 1: make timid or fearful; "Her boss intimidates her" 2: to compel or deter by or as if by threats [syn: intimidate, restrain]

v 1: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" [syn: deluge, flood, inundate, swamp] 2: fill or cover completely, usually with water [syn: inundate, deluge, submerge]

v 1: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea" [syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate] 2: make invalid for use; "cancel cheques or tickets" [syn: cancel, invalidate] 3: show to be invalid [syn: invalidate, nullify] [ant: validate] 4: take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract" [syn: invalidate, void, vitiate] [ant: validate]

v 1: kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stone, lapidate] 2: throw stones at; "Pilgrims lapidate a stone pillar in commemoration of Abraham's temptation"

v 1: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" [syn: neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in] 2: eliminate by paying off (debts) [syn: liquidate, pay off] 3: convert into cash; "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband" 4: settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off; "liquidate a company"

n 1: a document giving an official instruction or command [syn: mandate, authorization, authorisation] 2: a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves [syn: mandate, mandatory] 3: the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory v 1: assign under a mandate; "mandate a colony" 2: make mandatory; "the new director of the school board mandated regular tests" 3: assign authority to

v 1: assign the wrong date to

v 1: be later in time; "Tuesday always follows Monday" [syn: postdate, follow] [ant: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, precede, predate] 2: establish something as being later relative to something else [ant: antedate, foredate, predate]

v 1: be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools" [syn: predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate] [ant: follow, postdate] 2: come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify" [syn: precede, predate] 3: prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs" [syn: raven, prey, predate] 4: establish something as being earlier relative to something else [syn: predate, antedate, foredate] [ant: postdate]

adj 1: characterized by dignity and propriety [syn: sedate, staid] 2: dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence" [syn: grave, sedate, sober, solemn] v 1: cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation" [syn: sedate, calm, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise] [ant: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate]

n 1: news that updates your information v 1: modernize or bring up to date; "We updated the kitchen in the old house" 2: bring up to date; supply with recent information 3: bring to the latest state of technology

v 1: declare or make legally valid [syn: validate, formalize, formalise] [ant: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash, void] 2: prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something [ant: invalidate, nullify] 3: give evidence for [syn: validate, corroborate] 4: make valid or confirm the validity of; "validate a ticket" [ant: invalidate, vitiate, void]

adj 1: (of a leaf) shaped like a heart [syn: cordate, heart- shaped, cordiform]

n 1: a substance that oozes out from plant pores [syn: exudate, exudation] v 1: release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores" [syn: exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze]

v 1: make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination" [syn: fertilize, fecundate, fertilise] 2: introduce semen into (a female) [syn: inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise]

adj 1: of a leaf shape; having radiating lobes, each deeply cleft or divided 2: having or resembling a foot

adj 1: lacking a tail or taillike appendage [syn: acaudate, acaudal] [ant: caudate, caudated]