Designates rhymes with:
impregnates, magnates, alienates, alternates, carbonates, concatenates, contaminates, culminates, discriminates, disseminates, dominates, donates, eliminates, exterminates, fascinates, hydrogenates, hyphenates, illuminates, impersonates, impregnates, magnates, marinates, nominates, originates, pollinates, predominates, procrastinates, rejuvenates, resonates, subordinates, terminates
Designates sounds like:
dachshunds, desantiago, desantis, desantos, descends, descents, desmids, disantis, discounts, dismutase, disseminates, dissents, docents, documents, dogmatic, dossantos, doughnuts