avalement
noun
avale·ment
ȧvȧl(ə)mäⁿ
plural -s
: the technique of allowing the knees to flex and thus absorb bumps when skiing and turning at high speed so that the skis will remain in constant contact with the snow
Word History
Etymology
French, literally, swallowing, from avaler to lower, swallow, from Middle French
First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined above
- unabler
- unablest
- unabraded
- unabridged
- unabridgeds
- unabsolved
- unabsorbable
- unabsorbed
- unabsorbent
- unabused
- unacademic
- unacademically
- unaccelerated
- unaccented
- unacceptabilities
- unacceptability
- unacceptable
- unacceptablenesses
- unacceptably
- unacceptance
- unaccepted
- unaccessible
- unacclimated
- unacclimatized
- unaccommodated