| ABSORPTIVE | • absorptive adj. Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent. • absorptive n. Any substance that absorbs. • ABSORPTIVE adj. capable of absorbing. |
| APPROVABLE | • approvable adj. Able to be confirmed or approved. • APPROVABLE adj. worthy of being approved; meritorious. |
| DEPRIVABLE | • deprivable adj. Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived. • deprivable adj. (Obsolete) Liable to be deposed. • DEPRIVABLE adj. capable of being deprived. |
| EVAPORABLE | • evaporable adj. Capable of evaporation. • EVAPORABLE adj. capable of being converted into vapor. |
| IMPROVABLE | • improvable adj. Capable of being improved. • improvable adj. Capable of being used to advantage; profitable. • improvable adj. Impossible to prove. |
| PROVERBIAL | • proverbial adj. Of, resembling, or expressed as a proverb, cliché, fable, or fairy tale. • proverbial adj. Not used in a literal sense, but as the subject of a well-known metaphor. • proverbial adj. Widely known; famous; stereotypical. |
| PROVERBING | • proverbing v. Present participle of proverb. • PROVERB v. to speak of proverbially. |
| PROVIDABLE | • providable adj. Capable of being provided. • PROVIDABLE adj. that can be provided. |
| PROVOCABLE | • provocable adj. That can be provoked. • PROVOCABLE adj. that can be provoked, also PROVOKABLE. |
| PROVOKABLE | • provokable adj. That may be provoked. • PROVOKABLE adj. that can be provoked, also PROVOCABLE. |
| PULVERABLE | • pulverable adj. Capable of being reduced to fine powder. • PULVERABLE adj. that can be reduced to powder. |
| REPROVABLE | • reprovable adj. Reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure. • REPROVABLE adj. that can be reproved. |
| SUBREPTIVE | • subreptive adj. (Obsolete) surreptitious. • SUBREPTIVE adj. surreptitious. |
| UNPROVABLE | • unprovable adj. That cannot be proved or verified by any test. • UNPROVABLE adj. not provable. |
| VAPOURABLE | • vapourable adj. Alternative form of vaporable. • VAPOURABLE adj. that can be vaporized, also VAPORABLE, VAPORIZABLE. |
| VIBRAPHONE | • vibraphone n. A percussion instrument with a double row of tuned metal bars, each above the tubular resonator containing… • VIBRAPHONE n. an instrument having metal bars under which are electrically-operated resonators, played by striking the bars with small hammers, also VIBRAHARP. |