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Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.

Capable of being extended. [Obs.] Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which is most extensive under the hammer. Boyle.

Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed.

Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant. Evelyn.

Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out. Cheyne.

Capable of being extracted.

Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." Kirwan.

Capable of being extricated. Sir W. Jones.

Capable of being cast off in the form of exuviæ.

Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. Johnson.

Capable of being farmed.

Capable of being fathomed.

Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak.

Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable. Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice. Burke. It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield.

A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.

A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

Capable of being defended, or of making or affording defense. [Obs.] No fort so fencible, nor walls so strong. Spenser.

psin of the dastric juice, ptyalin of the salvia, and disease of malt. globular proteins, capable of catalyzing a wide variety of chemical reactions, not merely hydrolytic. The full set of enzymes causing production of ethyl alcohol from sugar has been identified and individually purified and studied. See enzyme…

Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.

Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.