| ace | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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| acellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: noncellular |
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| acentric | (adjective) lacking a centromere | - |
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| (adjective) not centered or having no center | - |
| acephalous | (adjective) lacking a head or a clearly defined head | - |
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| acerate | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerose, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| acerb | (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerbic, astringent |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| acerbic | (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, astringent |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| acervate | (adjective) pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass | - |
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| acetabular | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: cotyloid, cotyloidal |
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| acetic | (adjective) relating to or containing acetic acid | - |
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| acetonic | (adjective) of or relating to acetone | - |
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| acetose | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetous, vinegarish, vinegary |
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| acetous | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, vinegarish, vinegary |
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| acetylenic | (adjective) of or related to acetylene | - |
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| acetylic | (adjective) of or related to acetic acid | - |
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| adjacent | (adjective) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space | Synonyms: next, side by side |
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| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: conterminous, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| (adjective) near or close to but not necessarily touching | - |
| alliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to the botanical genus Allium | - |
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| (adjective) smelling of onions or garlic | - |
| amentaceous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentiferous |
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| amylaceous | (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous, starchlike |
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| aplacental | (adjective) having no placenta | - |
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| apocynaceous | (adjective) of or relating to tropical plants of the family Apocynaceae | - |
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| araceous | (adjective) relating to a plant of the family Araceae | Synonyms: aroid |
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| arboraceous | (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboreous, woodsy, woody |
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| arenaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas | Synonyms: sandlike, sandy |
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| argillaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: clayey |
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| arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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| asclepiadaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the milkweed family | - |
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| barefaced | (adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: bald |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| betulaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family | - |
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| biface | (adjective) having two faces or fronts | Synonyms: bifacial |
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| bignoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| braced | (adjective) positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger | - |
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| (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: buttressed |
| bulbaceous | (adjective) producing or growing from bulbs | - |
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| butyraceous | (adjective) having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter | - |
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| camphoraceous | (adjective) being or having the properties of camphor | - |
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| carbonaceous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonic, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| caryophyllaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae | - |
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| cetacean | (adjective) of or relating to whales and dolphins etc | Synonyms: cetaceous |
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| cetaceous | (adjective) of or relating to whales and dolphins etc | Synonyms: cetacean |
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| chartaceous | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: paperlike, papery |
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| chylaceous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylous |
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| commonplace | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous |
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| (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| (adjective) completely ordinary and unremarkable | - |
| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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| copacetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copasetic, copesetic, copesettic |
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| coriaceous | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: leathered, leatherlike, leathery |
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| cretaceous | (adjective) abounding in chalk | - |
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| crustacean | (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustaceous |
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| crustaceous | (adjective) being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustacean |
| cucurbitaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| curvaceous | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| disgraced | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: discredited, dishonored, shamed |
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| disgraceful | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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| (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: scandalous, shameful, shocking |
| drupaceous | (adjective) of or related to a drupe | - |
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| effaceable | (adjective) capable of being effaced | Synonyms: erasable |
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| exacerbating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exasperating |
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| extracellular | (adjective) located or occurring outside a cell or cells | - |
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| faced | (adjective) having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination | - |
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| faceless | (adjective) without a face or identity | - |
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| faceted | (adjective) having facets | - |
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| facetious | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: bantering, tongue-in-cheek |
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| farinaceous | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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| (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, starchlike |
| foliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant | - |
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| (adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaged, foliose |
| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliate, foliated |
| gallinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a gallinacean | - |
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| glace | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalised, crystalized |
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| graceful | (adjective) characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution | - |
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| (adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: elegant, refined |
| graceless | (adjective) lacking grace; clumsy | Synonyms: ungraceful |
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| (adjective) lacking social polish | Synonyms: gauche, unpolished |
| (adjective) lacking graciousness | - |
| herbaceous | (adjective) characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part | - |
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| interlaced | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, latticed, latticelike |
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| intracellular | (adjective) located or occurring within a cell or cells | - |
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| intracerebral | (adjective) within the brain | - |
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| iridaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Iridaceae | - |
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| irreplaceable | (adjective) impossible to replace | Synonyms: unreplaceable |
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| laced | (adjective) closed with a lace | Synonyms: tied |
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| (adjective) edged or streaked with color | - |
| lacelike | (adjective) made of or resembling lace | Synonyms: lacy |
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| lacerate | (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerated, mangled, torn |
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| (adjective) irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn | Synonyms: lacerated |
| lacerated | (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerate, mangled, torn |
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| (adjective) irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn | Synonyms: lacerate |
| lacertilian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: saurian |
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| liliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Liliaceae | - |
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| lobeliaceous | (adjective) belonging to the family Lobeliaceae | - |
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| macerative | (adjective) accompanied by or characterized by maceration | - |
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| metacentric | (adjective) having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the metacenter | - |
| micaceous | (adjective) hydrous silicates of or relating to or resembling mica | - |
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| misplaced | (adjective) put in the wrong place or position | - |
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| (adjective) lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place | Synonyms: mislaid |
| moraceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Moraceae | - |
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| multifaceted | (adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, miscellaneous, multifarious |
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| nonadjacent | (adjective) not adjacent; not next | - |
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| oleaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees or shrubs of the olive family | - |
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| peaceable | (adjective) not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war | Synonyms: peaceful |
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| (adjective) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature | Synonyms: pacific |
| (adjective) inclined or disposed to peace | Synonyms: peace-loving |
| peaceful | (adjective) not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war | Synonyms: peaceable |
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| (adjective) peacefully resistant in response to injustice | Synonyms: passive |
| peacekeeping | (adjective) of or relating to the preservation of peace between hostile groups by international military forces | - |
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| pharmaceutic | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists | Synonyms: pharmaceutical |
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| pharmaceutical | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists | Synonyms: pharmaceutic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment | - |
| pilosebaceous | (adjective) of or relating to a hair follicle and its sebaceous gland | - |
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| placeable | (adjective) capable of being recognized | Synonyms: recognisable, recognizable |
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| placed | (adjective) put in position in relation to other things | - |
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| (adjective) situated in a particular spot or position | Synonyms: located, set, situated |
| placental | (adjective) pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta | - |
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| plumbaginaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae | - |
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| polemoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Polemoniaceae | - |
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