English words containing abatable:

verb

Treat (wood) with creosote.

Usage examples:

A creosoted wooden fence

noun

A dark brown oil containing various phenols and other organic compounds, distilled from coal tar and used as a wood preservative.

Usage examples:

The common wood preservatives are creosote, penta-chlorophenol in oil, and copper and sodium naptha…

verb

Past simple and past participle of creosote

Usage examples:

James and i creosoted the fence.

noun

A woman's three-cornered shawl or cape, the corner worn at the back being rounded, fashionable in the second quarter of the 18th century.

noun

The central point, pin, or shaft on which a mechanism turns or oscillates.

Usage examples:

The insert requires minimal preventive-maintenance grease at its pivot points and axles.

verb

Turn on or as if on a pivot.

Usage examples:

The sail pivots around the axis of the mast

verb

(especially in a business context) completely change the way in which one does something.

Usage examples:

The teams performed exceptionally by quickly pivoting to meet the increased demand from our customers

verb

Put forward as fact or as a basis for argument.

Usage examples:

The confucian view posits a perfectible human nature

noun

A statement which is made on the assumption that it will prove to be true.

Usage examples:

Aristotle divides posits into two types, definitions and hypotheses.

verb

Present participle of posit

Usage examples:

[ + that ] if we posit that wage rises cause inflation, it follows that we should try to minimize t…

noun

Restoration, restitution; an instance of this.