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Capable of being accented.

Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.

Capable of being acclimated.

Capable of being acclimatized.

Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle.

Capable of being accounted for; explicable. [R.] True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. B. Whichcote.

Capable of being achieved. Barrow.

Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid.

Capable of being acquired.

Capable of being acted. Tennyson.

Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

Capable of being adapted.

Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.

Capable of being added. "Addible numbers." Locke.

Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.

Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines. Dunglison.

Capable of being adjusted.

A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.

Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.

To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted. Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.