| MUTICATE | • MUTICATE adj. in botany, having no point or awn, also MUTICOUS. |
| URTICATE | • urticate v. To have or produce a stinging sensation, as of nettles or urticating hair. • urticate adj. Marked by the presence of wheals. • URTICATE v. to cause to itch or sting. |
| BUSTICATE | • busticate v. (Transitive, colloquial, rare) To break into pieces. • BUSTICATE v. (colloquial) to break. |
| CORTICATE | • corticate adj. Sheathed in bark or in a cortex. • corticate n. Any of the common ancestors of Plantae and Chromista (or chromalveolates or other grouping of similar organisms). • CORTICATE adj. having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part, e.g. bark, also CORTICATED. |
| MASTICATE | • masticate v. (Transitive) To chew (food). • masticate v. (Transitive) To grind or knead something into a pulp. • MASTICATE v. to chew; to knead mechanically. |
| RUSTICATE | • rusticate v. (Transitive, Oxbridge, Durham University) To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university… • rusticate v. (Transitive) To construct in a manner so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces. • rusticate v. (Transitive) To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic. |
| ELASTICATE | • elasticate v. To add or wrap elastic around something. • ELASTICATE v. to make elastic. |
| HERETICATE | • hereticate v. (Transitive) To denounce as heresy or a heretic. • HERETICATE v. to denounce as heretical. |
| DECORTICATE | • decorticate v. (Transitive) To peel or remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from something. • decorticate v. (Transitive) To surgically remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of an organ etc. • decorticate adj. Having had the cortex removed. |
| DOMESTICATE | • domesticate v. (Transitive) To make domestic. • domesticate v. (Transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life. • domesticate v. (Transitive) To adapt to live with humans. |
| EXCORTICATE | • excorticate v. (Obsolete) To strip of bark or skin. • EXCORTICATE v. to strip the bark off of. |
| AUTHENTICATE | • authenticate v. (Transitive) To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required… • authenticate v. (Transitive) To prove authentic; to determine as real and true. • authenticate adj. Synonym of authentic. |
| FANTASTICATE | • fantasticate v. (Transitive) To make fantastical. • fantasticate v. (Intransitive) To behave fantastically. • FANTASTICATE v. to fantasize over something. |
| SOPHISTICATE | • sophisticate v. (Transitive). • sophisticate v. (Intransitive) To practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but… • sophisticate n. A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”)… |
| PHLOGISTICATE | • phlogisticate v. (Chemistry, obsolete, transitive) To combine phlogiston with. • PHLOGISTICATE v. to combine with phlogiston. |
| PROGNOSTICATE | • prognosticate v. (Transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill. • prognosticate v. (Transitive) To presage, betoken. • PROGNOSTICATE v. to foretell from signs or symptoms. |
| SCHOLASTICATE | • scholasticate n. A college for Roman Catholic scholastics planning to enter a religious order or seminary; The studies… • SCHOLASTICATE n. a preparatory college for those intending to enter Catholic order. |
| UNDOMESTICATE | • undomesticate v. (Transitive) To free from domestication; to make wild or roving. • UNDOMESTICATE v. to make not domesticated. |
| UNSOPHISTICATE | • unsophisticate n. An unsophisticated person. • unsophisticate adj. Unsophisticated. • UNSOPHISTICATE adj. not sophisticate. |
| DEPHLOGISTICATE | • dephlogisticate v. To take away the phlogiston, i.e. ability to burn, which is now understood to be chemically impossible. • DEPHLOGISTICATE v. to make something fireproof. |