Militates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 423 anagrams from letters in militates (aeiilmstt).
1615-25; Latin mīlitātus (past participle of mīlitāre to serve as a soldier), equivalent to mīlit- (stem of mīles) soldier + -ātus -ate It will make for, I might almost say militate for, a community spirit. This seems occasionally to militate against the clearness of the work. It does not militate against the profoundest religious conviction. But their having been already in print will militate against them. But there are circumstances that militate against this hypothesis. Should he be restored to Rome, would it militate against thy plans? Does it militate against the power of a cause, to rid it of its faults? Other points that militate against the claim of his descendants may be noted. The fact did not militate against his own story, in the least. If this test should fail, it will militate against the acceptance of my discovery!Examples for militates