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346 words match “CABLE”

SUSPICABLE a.
Liable to suspicion; suspicious. [Obs.] It is a very suspicable business. Dr. H. more.
TRAFFICABLE a.
Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
UNAPPLICABLE a.
Inapplicable.
UNEXTRICABLE a.
Not extricable; inextricable. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
UNPLACABLE a.
Implacable. [Obs.]
UNPRACTICABLE a.
Impracticable; not feasible.
VINDICABLE a.
Capable of being vindicated. -- Vin`di*ca*bil"i*ty, n.
VITRIFICABLE a.
Vitrifiable. [Obs.]
VOCABLE n.
letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle.
ABJECT a. 2 definitions
Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.
ABUNDANCE n.
fficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.
ACCOMPLISHABLE a.
Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle.
ACCOUNTABLE a.
Capable of being accounted for; explicable. [R.] True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. B. Whichcote.
AERIAL RAILWAY n.
An elevated cableway.
AFFECTION n.
ns, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. Cogan.
AGIBLE a.
Possible to be done; practicable. [Obs.] "Fit for agible things." Sir A. Sherley.
ALGEBRA n.
he relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.
ALLUDE v.
To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable. [Obs.] Wither.
AMICABILITY n.
The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness. Ash.
AMICABLY adv.
In an amicable manner.
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