| BIFORATE | • biforate adj. Having two openings. • biforate adj. (Botany) Having two perforations. • biforate adj. (Architecture) Having two doors or windows. |
| BORATING | • borating n. Treatment or reaction with a borate. • BORATE v. to mix with borax or boric acid. |
| CHLORATE | • chlorate n. (Chemistry) Any salt of chloric acid. • CHLORATE n. a chlorine compound. |
| DECORATE | • decorate v. (Transitive) To furnish with decorations. • decorate v. (Transitive) To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office. • decorate v. (Intransitive) To decorate an interior space, as a house, room, or office. |
| EPHORATE | • ephorate n. The office of an ephor; ephors collectively. • EPHORATE n. the office of ephor, one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. |
| MAJORATS | • majorats n. Plural of majorat. • MAJORAT n. (French) primogeniture, the circumstance of being firstborn. |
| MORATORY | • moratory adj. (Law, finance) Pertaining to delay of payment or fulfilment of an obligation. • MORATORY adj. authorizing delay of payment. |
| ORATIONS | • orations n. Plural of oration. • ORATION n. a formal speech. |
| ORATORIO | • oratorio n. (Music) A musical composition, often based on a religious theme; similar to opera but with no costume… • ORATORIO n. (Italian) a choral work usually on a scriptural subject. |
| ORATRESS | • oratress n. (Dated) A female orator. • ORATRESS n. a female orator, also ORATRIX. |
| ORATURES | • oratures n. Plural of orature (“oral equivalent of literature”). • oratures n. (Scotland, chiefly Christianity, archaic) plural of orature (“small room or chapel used for prayer and… • ORATURE n. oral forms of literature such as folklore. |
| PEJORATE | • pejorate v. (Transitive, intransitive) To make or become worse; to deteriorate or to worsen. • PEJORATE v. to make worse. |
| PERORATE | • perorate v. (Intransitive) To speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue. • perorate v. (Intransitive) To make a peroration; to make a formal recapitulation at the end of a speech. • PERORATE v. to make a lengthy speech. |
| PHORATES | • PHORATE n. an insecticide. |
| PRIORATE | • priorate n. The dignity, office, or government of a prior. • PRIORATE n. the state or office of a prior, also PRIORSHIP. |
| PRORATED | • prorated v. Simple past tense and past participle of prorate. • PRORATE v. to divide proportionately. |
| PRORATES | • prorates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prorate. • PRORATE v. to divide proportionately. |
| SORORATE | • sororate n. The custom of the marriage of a man to the sister of his wife, usually after the wife has died. • sororate n. A marriage according to this custom. • SORORATE n. the marriage of a man with his dead wife's sister. |