Common Suffixes: Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -able, -ible

This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that means "able to be, can be."
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  1. accessible
    capable of being reached
  2. admissible
    deserving to be accepted or allowed
  3. adorable
    lovable especially in a childlike or naive way
  4. analyzable
    capable of being partitioned
  5. audible
    heard or perceptible by the ear
  6. avertible
    capable of being avoided or warded off
  7. blameable
    deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
  8. bridgeable
    capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge
  9. collapsible
    capable of breaking down
  10. combustible
    capable of igniting and burning
  11. compatible
    able to exist and perform in harmonious combination
  12. confirmable
    capable of being tested by experiment or observation
  13. deducible
    capable of being figured out by what is known
  14. edible
    suitable for use as food
  15. eligible
    qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen
  16. exhaustible
    capable of being used up; capable of being exhausted
  17. expressible
    capable of being expressed
  18. extendable
    capable of being lengthened
  19. fallible
    wanting in moral strength, courage, or will
  20. feasible
    capable of being done with means at hand
  21. filmable
    capable of being adapted to motion picture form
  22. forgivable
    easily excused or forgiven
  23. heritable
    capable of being inherited
  24. imaginable
    capable of being conceived of
  25. inoperable
    not suitable for or able to be fixed by means of surgery
  26. irrepressible
    impossible to control
  27. likeable
    easy to like; agreeable
  28. livable
    fit or suitable to live in or with
  29. liveable
    fit or suitable to live in or with
  30. manoeuvrable
    capable of maneuvering or changing position
  31. peaceable
    inclined or disposed to peace
  32. perfectible
    capable of becoming or being made perfect
  33. perishable
    subject to destruction or death or decay
  34. permissible
    acceptable, especially as according to rule
  35. plausible
    apparently reasonable, valid, or truthful
  36. possible
    capable of happening or existing
  37. preferable
    more desirable than another
  38. ratable
    liable to payment of locally assessed property taxes
  39. reducible
    capable of being reduced
  40. referable
    capable of being assigned or credited to
  41. saleable
    capable of being sold; fit for sale
  42. shakeable
    capable of being weakened
  43. sizeable
    fairly large
  44. tameable
    capable of being tamed
  45. tenable
    based on sound reasoning or evidence
  46. transferable
    capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
  47. unshakable
    marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
  48. usable
    capable of being put to use
Created on Fri May 03 11:49:16 EDT 2024 (updated Fri Jul 26 16:13:31 EDT 2024)

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