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- Admitting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Admit
- Answerable - a. - Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
- Inexcusable - a. - Not excusable; not admitting excuse or justification; as, inexcusable folly.
- Saturable - a. - Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation.
- Readmission - n. - The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.
- Pardonably - adv. - In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.
- Flexible - a. - Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
- Curtain - n. - A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
- Air shaft - - A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
- Susceptible - a. - Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.
- Incurable - a. - Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
- Revertible - a. - Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate.
- Arguable - a. - Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.
- Incomparable - a. - Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent.
- Solvable - a. - Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.
- Impassable - a. - Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf.
- Uncompromising - a. - Not admitting of compromise; making no truce or concessions; obstinate; unyielding; inflexible.
- Controvertible - a. - Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question.
- Ambiguity - n. - The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.
- Remediless - a. - Not admitting of a remedy; incapable of being restored or corrected; incurable; irreparable; as, a remediless mistake or loss.
- Inappealable - a. - Not admitting of appeal; not appealable.
- Equivalent - a. - Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.
- Declinable - a. - Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
- Double-entendre - n. - A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.
- Retrievable - a. - That may be retrieved or recovered; admitting of retrieval.
- Refusable - a. - Capable of being refused; admitting of refusal.