| acclimate | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimatise, acclimatize |
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| amalgamate | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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| (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify |
| animate | (adjective) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings | - |
| (adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: sentient |
| (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
| (verb) make lively | Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up |
| (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animise, animize |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
| antepenultimate | (adjective) third from last | - |
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| (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultima |
| approximate | (adjective) located close together | Synonyms: close together |
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| (adjective) very close in resemblance | Synonyms: near |
| (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximative, rough |
| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: estimate, gauge, guess, judge |
| (verb) be close or similar | Synonyms: come close |
| automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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| bedmate | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedfellow |
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| bichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: dichromate |
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| bromate | (noun) a chemical compound that contains the bromate ion. | - |
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| (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
| bunkmate | (noun) someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself | - |
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| campmate | (noun) someone who lives in the same camp you do | - |
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| carbamate | (noun) a salt (or ester) of carbamic acid | - |
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| checkmate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: mate |
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| (noun) complete victory | - |
| (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
| chromate | (noun) any salt or ester of chromic acid | - |
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| classmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, schoolfellow, schoolmate |
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| climate | (noun) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | Synonyms: clime |
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| (noun) the prevailing psychological state | Synonyms: mood |
| collimate | (verb) adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument) | - |
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| (verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: parallel |
| comate | (adjective) bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts | Synonyms: comose |
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| (adjective) of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair | Synonyms: comal, comose |
| consummate | (adjective) perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities | Synonyms: complete |
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| (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: masterful, masterly, virtuoso |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (verb) make perfect; bring to perfection | - |
| (verb) fulfill sexually | - |
| cremate | (verb) reduce to ashes | - |
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| cyclamate | (noun) any salt or ester of cyclamic acid. | - |
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| decimate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| (verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies | - |
| deplumate | (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplume, displume, pluck, pull, tear |
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| desquamate | (verb) peel off in scales | Synonyms: peel off |
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| dichromate | (noun) a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid | Synonyms: bichromate |
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| diplomate | (noun) medical specialist whose competence has been certified by a diploma granted by an appropriate professional group | - |
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| directmate | (noun) A type of problem where White, moving first, is required to checkmate Black in a specified number of moves against any defence. | - |
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| estimate | (noun) a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody | Synonyms: estimation |
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| (noun) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth | Synonyms: approximation, estimation, idea |
| (noun) the respect with which a person is held | Synonyms: estimation |
| (noun) a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) | Synonyms: appraisal, estimation |
| (noun) a statement indicating the likely cost of some job | - |
| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, gauge, guess, judge |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, figure, forecast, reckon |
| exanimate | (adjective) deprived of life; no longer living | Synonyms: lifeless |
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| flatmate | (noun) an associate who shares an apartment with you | - |
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| glutamate | (noun) a salt or ester of glutamic acid | - |
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| guesstimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guestimate |
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| (verb) estimate based on a calculation | - |
| guestimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guesstimate |
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| hamate | (noun) the wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers | Synonyms: hamate bone, os hamatum, unciform bone |
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| helpmate | (noun) a helpful partner | Synonyms: helpmeet |
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| housemate | (noun) someone who resides in the same house with you | - |
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| humate | (noun) material that is high in humic acids | - |
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| illegitimate | (adjective) of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful | - |
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| (adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illicit, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful |
| (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
| inanimate | (adjective) not endowed with life | Synonyms: non-living, nonliving |
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| (adjective) belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things | - |
| (adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: breathless, pulseless |
| inmate | (noun) one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital) | - |
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| (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inpatient |
| (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, convict, yard bird, yardbird |
| intimate | (adjective) marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity | - |
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| (adjective) thoroughly acquainted through study or experience | Synonyms: knowledgeable, versed |
| (adjective) having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere | Synonyms: cosy, cozy, informal |
| (adjective) innermost or essential | Synonyms: inner, internal |
| (adjective) concerning things deeply private and personal | Synonyms: private |
| (adjective) used euphemistically to refer to the genitals | - |
| (adjective) involved in a sexual relationship | Synonyms: sexual |
| (adjective) having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship | Synonyms: familiar |
| (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: confidant |
| (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: adumbrate, insinuate |
| (verb) imply as a possibility | Synonyms: suggest |
| legitimate | (adjective) of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful | - |
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| (adjective) in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles | - |
| (adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, licit |
| (adjective) based on known statements or events or conditions | Synonyms: logical |
| (verb) make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone) | - |
| (verb) show or affirm to be just and legitimate | - |
| (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
| mate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: checkmate |
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| (noun) an exact duplicate | Synonyms: match |
| (noun) South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | - |
| (noun) a person's partner in marriage | Synonyms: better half, married person, partner, spouse |
| (noun) the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) | - |
| (noun) the officer below the master on a commercial ship | Synonyms: first mate |
| (noun) informal term for a friend of the same sex | - |
| (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: teammate |
| (noun) South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea | Synonyms: Ilex paraguariensis, Paraguay tea |
| (noun) one of a pair | Synonyms: fellow |
| (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: checkmate |
| (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, couple, pair |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, pair, twin |
| meclofenamate | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Meclomen) used to treat arthritis | Synonyms: meclofenamate sodium, Meclomen |
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| meprobamate | (noun) a sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety | Synonyms: Equanil, Meprin, Miltown |
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| messmate | (noun) (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship) | - |
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| miltomate | (noun) Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: jamberry, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo |
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| misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
| mismate | (verb) provide with an unsuitable mate | - |
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| overestimate | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimation, overrating, overreckoning |
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| (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimation, overvaluation |
| (verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overrate |
| (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overvalue |
| palmate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point | Synonyms: palm-shaped |
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| (adjective) (of the feet of water birds) having three toes connected by a thin fold of skin | - |
| penultimate | (adjective) second last | Synonyms: next-to-last |
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| (noun) the next to last syllable in a word | Synonyms: penult, penultima |
| playmate | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playfellow |
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| plumate | (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumed, plumose |
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| primate | (noun) any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet | - |
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| (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate |
| proximate | (adjective) closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects | - |
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| (adjective) very close in space or time | - |
| ramate | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, branching, ramose, ramous |
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| reanimate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| roommate | (noun) an associate who shares a room with you | Synonyms: roomie, roomy |
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| schoolmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow |
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| shipmate | (noun) an associate on the same ship with you | - |
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| stablemate | (noun) a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person | Synonyms: stable companion |
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| stalemate | (noun) drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check | - |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, impasse, standstill |
| (verb) subject to a stalemate | - |
| stomate | (noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: pore, stoma |
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| sublimate | (adjective) made pure | - |
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| (noun) the product of vaporization of a solid | - |
| (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again | Synonyms: sublime |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, purify |
| (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: rarefy, subtilize |
| (verb) change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | Synonyms: sublime |
| (verb) direct energy or urges into useful activities | - |
| summate | (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up |
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| (verb) form or constitute a cumulative effect | - |
| tablemate | (noun) someone you dine with | Synonyms: dining companion |
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| teammate | (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: mate |
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| ultimate | (adjective) furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme | - |
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| (adjective) being the last or concluding element of a series | - |
| (noun) the finest or most superior quality of its kind | - |
| underestimate | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimation, underrating, underreckoning |
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| (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: lowball |
| (verb) make too low an estimate of | Synonyms: underrate |
| (verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: undervalue |
| workmate | (noun) a fellow worker | - |
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