Reverse Dictionary: ABILITY

ADJECTIVES
► ABLEMOST most able, ablest → 1614 obs.
► ADEPT extremely able, thoroughly proficient at something → 1698
► ADROIT extremely able, dexterous, clever, astute → 1652
► ASPERT able, ready, clever → 1423 obs.
► BADLY ABLE hardly able → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BASTANT able, sufficient, capable → 1637 obs.
► DARB unusually able or skilled; highly competent → 1930 US sl.
► EEBLE able → 1880 Sc.
► FACULIZED endowed with many abilities or faculties; versatile → 1816 Amer. dial.
► FACULTISED endowed with many abilities or faculties; versatile → 1871 Amer. dial.
► FARRACHIE able, strong, energetic → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► HABILE able, having the capacity or power to do a thing → 1558 obs.
► HABILITATE rendered able; endowed with ability; capacitated, qualified → 1622 obs.
► HARD-MATCHED hardly able → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HEAD most able, best, chief → 1895 Amer. dial.
► PANURGIC able or ready to do anything → 1873 
► PRETTY able, skilful, cunning, crafty; later, clever → 1000 
► PROFICIENT able, capable, suitably qualified → 1593
► PURSABLE having sufficient money; financially able → 1625 obs.
► SUFFICIENT ► SUFFISANT able, competent, capable → 1385 obs.
► TIDY of good ability or character; worthy, brave; able, skilful → 1350 obs.
► TIGHT able, competent, capable, skilful → 1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 
► YABLE ► YIBBLE able → 1825 Sc.

NOUNS
► ABILITATION ability; grasp of intellect → 1656 obs.
► ABILTY ability → 1768 Sc. obs.
► ABLENESS ability; the quality of being able → 1390 obs.
► ABLESSE ableness → 1598 obs.
► ACUMEN ability in judging shrewdly → 1579
► ASS the actual ability and determination to carry out a promise, threat, etc., as opposed to an empty boast → 1961 Amer. sl. 
► BIND ability, capacity, power → 1824 Sc.
► CAN ► CANN  ► KANN ability, cleverness, knowledge → 1768 Sc.
► CANNING ability; being able → 1555 obs.
► CLEVERALITY ability, cleverness, smartness → 1828 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► COCUM ► COKUM ► KOCUM ► KOKUM ability; acumen; judgement → 1848 sl.
► DOCITY ► DOSSITY quick comprehension; ability; spirit, animation → 1746 Eng. dial.
► DOTE a personal ability or quality; a natural gift; usually used in plural → 1546 obs.
► DOUGHT ability, power, strength → 1731 Sc.
► FARRACH ► FEEROCH ► FEIROCH ability, power, strength, substance; force → 1742 Sc.
► FATHOM ability; grasp of intellect → 1604 obs.
► FEEROCHRIE ability, activity, agility → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► HABILIMENTS abilities, faculties, powers of mind → 1585 obs.
► HABILITY ability → 1430 obs.
► HEAD-GEAR ability, mental equipment, brains, good sense → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► IDOCITY ability, quick comprehension → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► INGENY mental ability; genius, talent, cleverness, ingenuity → 1474 obs.
► INGINE ability; knowledge, invention; ingenuity, quickness of intellect → 1660 Sc. obs.
► JISM ability, talent → 1842 
► LATITUDE range of ability → 1902 (Bk.)
► MAUGHT ability, might, strength → 1773 Sc.
► MOJO AND THE SAY-SO, THE the ability to enforce one’s wishes completely → 1975 Amer. sl. 
► MOVES ability, ‘smarts’, knowledge → 1960 sl., orig. US
► MOXIE ability, courage, impudence → 1930 sl.
► NATURAL RUM natural ability → 1911 Amer. dial.
► ODOCITY ability, gumption; spirit, energy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OIL ability, facility → 1910 sl.
► PROWESS extraordinary ability or talent → 1668
► REDD ability to work, energy, speed → 1892 Sc.
► SCOLLE ability, understanding → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCRAN ability; means of effecting a purpose → 1806 Sc. 
► SKILLZ high ability in any area → 2011 African-American sl.
► SUFFICIENCE ability; capacity; competence → 1382 obs.
► SUFFICIENCY ability; being able; adequate qualification → 1567 obs.
► SUFFICIENTY ability; competence → 1461 obs.
► SUFFISANCE ability, competence → 1392 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BALL OF FIRE a person exhibiting unusual ability, etc.; a person who can do something very well → 1900 Amer. sl.
► BEYOND-MAN a man of extraordinary ability power or ability → 1896 
► COME-UPPER an able, energetic person who gets things done → 1968 
► COOL CAT a sophisticated, competent, unruffled, able person → 1940 sl., chiefly African-American usage
► CRACKAJACK ► CRACKERJACK a person of marked ability → 1895 sl., orig. US
► CRACK HAND an able, competent person → 1891 sl.
► EAR MAN a person expressing a natural ability to excel at an endeavour; a virtuoso → 1970 African-American sl. 
► FOOL an unusually able person in any field of activity, as a dancing fool, etc. → 1974 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HORSE a person who exhibits extraordinary ability at something → 1955 Amer. sl. 
► HOSS a person who exhibits extraordinary ability at something → 1858 Amer. sl. 
► INGINE a person of ability; an ingenious person, a genius → 1824 Sc. obs.
► MOOSE CAT a person possessing great ability, strength, etc. → 1926 Amer. logging usage 
► OIL-BURNER an exceptionally able or hard-working person → 1926 US sl.
► PIPPIN a person of good ability → 1914 Amer. dial.

PHRASES
► ABOVE ONE’S BEND beyond one’s abilities → 1835 Amer. dial.
► ABOVE ONE’S HUCKLEBERRY beyond one’s abilities → 1859 Amer. dial.
► ABOVE ONE’S MATCH beyond one’s abilities → 1748 obs.
► IT IS IN A PERSON’S BUTTONS it is within a person’s innate ability or capacity to attain or achieve something → 1616 obs.

VERBS
► ABILITATE to give ability or fitness; to enable → 1627 obs.
► BLUFF to make a false show of ability → 1854 
► CUT THE MUSTARD to be able to do something requiring youth or vigour → 1891 
► DOTE to endow a person with abilities or qualities → 1519 Sc. obs.
► DOW to be able to do something; to have the strength or ability → 1400 obs.
► HABILITATE to endow with ability or capacity; to capacitate, to qualify → 1604 obs.
► HANG THE MOON to be exceptionally able or talented → 1953 Amer. dial.
► HAVE THE GUNS FOR to have the ability for something → 1961 
► LOSE ONE’S DASH to lose one’s ability and energy → 1880 
► LOSE ONE’S PUNCH to lose one’s ability and energy → 1900 sl.
► PUNT to pretend ability or knowledge → 1971 (Bk.)
► SHOW ONE’S PACES to display one’s ability → 1870 colloq.
► SPELL BAKER to be fairly able, to be up to snuff → 1868 Amer. dial.
► SUFFICE to be able or competent to do something → 1325 obs.