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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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841 words match “LENE”

DISCIPLINABLENESS n.
The quality of being improvable by discipline. Sir M. Hale.
DISPENSABLENESS n.
Quality of being dispensable.
DISPUTABLENESS n.
State of being disputable.
DISSOLUBLENESS n.
The quality of being dissoluble; dissolubility. Boyle.
DISTINGUISHABLENESS n.
The quality of being distinguishable.
DOCIBILITY; DOCIBLENESS n.
Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility. To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily taught in a few days. Boyle. The docibleness of dogs in general. Walton.
DOMABLENESS n.
Tamableness.
DOUBLENESS n. 2 definitions
The state of being double or doubled.
DRINKABLENESS n.
State of being drinkable.
DURABLENESS n.
Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability. The durableness of the metal that supports it. Addison.
EDIBLENESS n.
Suitableness for being eaten.
EIKOSYLENE n.
A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal.
ELIGIBLENESS n.
The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.
EQUABLENESS n.
Quality or state of being equable.
EQUITABLENESS n.
The quality of being equitable, just, or impartial; as, the equitableness of a judge, a decision, or distribution of property.
ERRABLENESS n.
Liability to error. Dr. H. More.
ESTIMABLENESS n.
The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
ETHYLENE n.
called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen. Ethylene series (Chem.), the series if unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is the type, and represented by the general formula CnH2n.
EXPLICABLENESS n.
Quality of being explicable.
EXTENSIBLENESS n.
Extensibility.
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