Palate

Definition: Palate

Palate

Noun

1. The upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities.

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Date "palate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Health

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Synonym: Palate

Pain

Bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart,bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart; do one's heart good.

Savoriness

Verb: be savory. Adjective: tickle the palate,Verb: be savory. Adjective: tickle the palate, tickle the appetite; flatter the palate.

Taste

Verb: taste, savor, smatch, smack, flavor, twang; tickle the palate. (savory); smack the lips.

Palate, tongue, tooth, stomach.

Crosswords: Palate

Serbo-Croatian (mansions).

Their democratic flavor doesn't suit my palate, Louis (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

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Books

• From Portland's Palate (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Silver Palate Good Times Live (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Palate Pleasers (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Tongue and palate of patient with infectious mononucleosis. Credit: CDC.

This patient with congenital syphilis has developed a perforation of hard palate due to gummatous destruction. These destructive tumors can also attack the skin, long bones, eyes, mucous membranes, throat, liver, or stomach lining. Credit: CDC.

A bowl of berries is a treat for the eye as well as a delight for the palate. But these tasty little morsels happen to be quite tricky to grow, harvest, and handle. These crops tend to have brief growing seasons and are vulnerable to insects, disease, and even birds, so ARS scientists have given them lots of attention. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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Stephen, his tongue cleaving to his palate, bowed his head, praying with his heart

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Health

First inspect the hard and then the soft palate. (references)

Examine all soft palate and oropharyngeal tissues. (references)

VCFS occurs in approximately 5 to 8 percent of children born with a cleft palate. (references)

Economic History

Taiwan

In addition to their pleasing and often new taste to the Taiwanese palate, natural fruit ingredients offer manufacturers opportunities to tout associated nutrition and health benefits. (references)

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Expressions using "palate": bony palate ♦ cleft palate ♦ flatter the palate ♦ hard palate ♦ have a fine palate ♦ have no palate for ♦ soft palate ♦ the pleasures of the palate ♦ tickle the palate. Additional references.

Beginning with "palate": palate-stimulator.

Albanian

shije (Flavor, flavour, gusto, likes, liking, relish, sapidity, sapor, savor, savour, smack, taste), qiellëz, interes (account, behalf, interest, percentage, sake, savor, savour, self interest). (various references)

Arabic 

‏له مزاق, ‏حنك (jaw, jaws), ‏ذوق (decorum, gust, sense, tact, taste), ‏أعلى باطن الفم. (various references)

Basque

ahosabai. (various references)

Bulgarian 

вкус (choice, discernment, fancy, flavour, inclination, liking, penchant, relish, sapor, savor, savour, smack, stomach, taste, tincture, tinge), небце (roof of the mouth). (various references)

Chinese 

齶 , 臄 (sausage), 顎 (category, class, jaw, kind, like, similar, to resemble, type), 上颚. (various references)

Czech

patro (floor, loft, storey), vkus (mind, style, stylishness, taste). (various references)

Danish

palatum, gane. (various references)

Dutch

palatum, verhemelte, gehemelte. (various references)

Farsi 

چشیدن (Assay, Gust, Sip, Taste), کام (Desire, Wish), سقف دهان , سق , طعم (Flavor, Gusto, Odor, Relish, Savor, Smack, Taste), ذاءقه (Relish). (various references)

Finnish

kitalaki. (various references)

French

palais (palace). (various references)

German

Gaumen (roof of the mouth). (various references)

Greek 

γεύση (flavour, sapor, savor, savour, smack, taste, zest), υπερώα, ουρανίσκοσ (velum), ουρανίσκος. (various references)

Hebrew 

חך. (various references)

Hungarian

szájpadlás, ízlés (gusto, sense of taste, style, taste, teeth, tooth), íny (gum), szájpad. (various references)

Indonesian

langit-langit mulut, langitan. (various references)

Italian

palato (palatal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

口�"� , 味覚 (sense of taste, taste), 上顎 (upper jaw). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うわあ�" (upper jaw), �"うがい (deploration, disclosure, epitome, off grounds, off-campus, out of school, out of the pit, outline, outside a port or harbor, outside the premises, outskirts, patriotic lamentation, pollution, pollution or environmental damage due to mining, public nuisance, reveal, righteous indignation, suburb, summary), じょうがく (upper jaw), みかく (sense of taste, taste). (various references)

Korean 

구개. (various references)

Manx

clea veeal, clea (concealment, harrow, roof, roofing). (various references)

Occitan

paladar, cèl de la boca. (various references)

Pig Latin

alatepay.(various references)

Portuguese

preferência (alternative, choice, fellow feeling, like, liking, option, preference), palato, paladar (savor, savour, spice, tang, tooth), sentido do gosto (gustation, sense of taste, taste), gosto (dribblet, fellow feeling, flair, flavor, fondness, gust, gusto, like, liking, pleasure, propensity, raciness, relish, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, spice, style, tooth, treat, zest), céu da boca (arch). (various references)

Romanian

plãcere (amusement, delight, enjoyment, gusto, joy, liking, mind, pleasure, pleasuring, prize, satisfaction, unction, willingness), palat (court, hall, mansion, palace), simţul gustului, gust (desire, disposition, Flavor, flavour, gust, gusto, liking, relish, savor, savour, smack, taste, zest), cerul gurii (roof of the mouth). (various references)

Russian 

вкус (flavour, liking, relish, sapidity, sapor, savor, savour, smack, taste, tastefulness, tastiness), нёбо, небо (heaven, sky, the roof of the mouth, welkin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nepce. (various references)

Spanish

paladar (palatal, taste). (various references)

Swedish

gom. (various references)

Turkish

tat alma, damak zevki (tooth), damak (palatal, Palatine, roof of the mouth), ağız tadı (enjoyment, gusto, relish). (various references)

Ukrainian

смак (gusto, sapor, smack, style, taste), нахил (bend, bent, cant, declination, droop, hang, inclination, incline, lurch, notion, obliqueness, obliquity, ply, proclivity, propensity, slope, tilt, tip), піднебіння. (various references)

Vietnamese 

ý thích (pleasure). (various references)

Welsh

taflod y genau. (various references)

palato, palatum. (various references)

goma. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "palate": palates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Palate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alzate, apate, falate, Paata, pabloite, Paillat, palache, Palade, palage, palare, Palat, palatan, palatte, palave, palcate, paleate, paleatte, paleit, Palene, paleta, palete, paletle, paliate, palite, Palito, pallat, pallate, pallatte, Pallayev, pallete, palleted, palte, parata, parate, Parati, Parlato, pasante, pavletic, Pavlita, Pawanteh, pelame, Pelite, pellate, pesate, phalerata, pilae, pilare, pilate, Pilatii, Pilato, pilatte, platalea, platei, Platek, platoe, platte, platue, platze, pleathe, pllate, Poblete, Polartex, polate, Polyatom, psallat, pulate, Qalaat, Qalat. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alate, leapt, lepta, palea, palet, petal, plate, pleat, tepal.

-2 letters: alae, atap, late, leap, lept, pale, pate, peal, peat, pelt, plat, plea, tael, tala, tale, tapa, tape, teal, tela, tepa.

-3 letters: aal, ala, ale, alp, alt, ape, apt, ate, eat, eta, lap, lat, lea, let, pal, pat, pea, pet, tae, tap, tea, tel.

-4 letters: aa.

+1 letter: apetaly, apteral, palates, palmate, palpate, patella, placate, planate, platane, plateau, tapetal.

+2 letters: alphabet, apholate, baldpate, lapidate, malapert, palatine, palestra, palliate, palmated, palpated, palpates, panatela, panetela, parental, parietal, parlante, patellae, patellar, patellas, paternal, placated, placater, placates, placenta, platanes, plateaus, plateaux, playdate, playmate, pleasant, prenatal, stapelia.

+3 letters: acropetal, adaptable, adoptable, afterclap, alphabets, analeptic, apetalies, apetalous, apholates, apiculate, appellant, appellate, applecart, aspectual, asphalted, atemporal, baldpates, basipetal, caliphate, capablest, catalepsy, cataplexy, drawplate, epitaxial, faceplate, lapidated, lapidates, lapstrake, leadplant, malaperts, nameplate, palaestra, palatable, palatines, palestrae, palestras, palliated, palliates, palmately, palmitate, palpitate, panatelas, panetelas, pantalets, pantalone, papillate, parietals, pastorale, perinatal, placaters, placative, placentae, placental, placentas, planetary, plantable, plateaued, playacted, playdates, playmates, psalteria, spatulate, stapedial, stapelias, tailplane.