| ACAUDATE | • acaudate adj. (Biology, zoology) Tailless. • ACAUDATE adj. tailless, also ACAUDAL. |
| ANTEDATE | • antedate v. To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time. • antedate v. To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date. • antedate v. (Lexicography) To find earlier citational evidence for a term. |
| BACKDATE | • backdate v. To give or assign a date to a document that is earlier than the current or true date. • backdate n. An assigned date that is earlier than the current or true date. • BACKDATE v. to date to an earlier time. |
| CHORDATE | • chordate n. A member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development;… • chordate adj. Of such animals. • CHORDATE n. an animal having a backbone. |
| DENUDATE | • denudate v. (Obsolete, rare) To denude. • DENUDATE v. to strip of all covering, also DENUDE. |
| ECAUDATE | • ecaudate adj. (Biology) Tailless; without a tail or tail-like appendage. • ECAUDATE adj. tailless, also ACAUDAL, ACAUDATE. |
| EMENDATE | • emendate adj. (Obsolete) emended, corrected, restored. • emendate v. (Transitive) Remove errors and corruptions from (a text); to emend (a text). • EMENDATE v. to correct, also EMEND. |
| FOREDATE | • foredate v. (Transitive) To date before the true time; to antedate. • FOREDATE v. to date before the true time; to antedate. |
| INCUDATE | • incudate adj. (Zoology, anatomy) Of, pertaining to or having an incus (bone of the middle ear). • incudate adj. (Zoology, of mastaxes or trophi of rotifers) That functions by prehension; used as a classification. • INCUDATE adj. shaped like an incus or anvil, also INCUDAL. |
| INUNDATE | • inundate v. To cover with large amounts of water; to flood. • inundate v. To overwhelm. • INUNDATE v. to fill with overflowing abundance. |
| LAPIDATE | • lapidate v. (Transitive, law) To throw stones or other objects at, as punishment, sometimes until death. • lapidate v. (Transitive, figurative) To hurl insults at. • LAPIDATE v. to hurl stones at. |
| PLAYDATE | • playdate n. The occasion of a child having a friend come over to play at their house. • playdate n. Any scheduled recreation, especially if not scheduled by those directly involved. • playdate n. The date of a showing of a film. |
| POSTDATE | • postdate v. (Transitive) To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time. • postdate v. (Transitive) To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date. • postdate v. (Transitive) To affix a date to after the event. |
| RAINDATE | • raindate n. An alternative date on which an event will be held if it rains on the originally scheduled date. • RAINDATE n. an alternate date in the event of rain. |
| SOLIDATE | • solidate v. (Obsolete) To make solid or firm; to solidify. • SOLIDATE v. to consolidate. |
| VALIDATE | • validate v. (Transitive) To render valid. • validate v. (Transitive) To check or prove the validity of; verify. • validate v. (Ergative) To have its validity successfully proven. |
| VANADATE | • vanadate n. (Chemistry) any salt of vanadic acid. • vanadate n. (Chemistry) any of the corresponding anions, VO3, VO4, or V2O7. • VANADATE n. a salt of vanadic acid, also VANADIATE. |