| brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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| brachycranic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranial |
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| branched | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branching, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
| branchial | (adjective) of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) | - |
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| branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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| branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
| branchiopod | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous |
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| branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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| branchiopodous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodan |
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| branchless | (adjective) having no branches | - |
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| branchy | (adjective) having many branches | - |
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| branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
| brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
| (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
| (adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
| brisant | (adjective) of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive | - |
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| broadband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: wideband |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) | - |
| buoyant | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: chirpy, perky |
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| (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: floaty |
| caducean | (adjective) of or relating to a caduceus | - |
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| caecilian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae | - |
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| caesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarian, cesarean, cesarian |
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| caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
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| calando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and volume | - |
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| calcaneal | (adjective) relating to the heel bone or heel | - |
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| callipygian | (adjective) pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks | Synonyms: callipygous |
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| callithumpian | (adjective) of or relating to a callithump | - |
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| campanular | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanulate, campanulated |
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| campanulate | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulated |
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| campanulated | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulate |
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| canalicular | (adjective) relating to or like or having a canaliculus | - |
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| canaliculate | (adjective) having thin parallel channels | - |
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| canary | (adjective) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | Synonyms: canary-yellow |
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| cancellate | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellated, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellated, clathrate |
| cancellated | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, clathrate |
| cancelled | (adjective) (of events) no longer planned or scheduled | Synonyms: off |
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| cancellous | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
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| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| cancroid | (adjective) of or relating to a cancroid | - |
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| candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| candid | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness | Synonyms: heart-to-heart, open |
| (adjective) informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared | - |
| candied | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: crystalised, crystalized, glace |
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| (adjective) encrusted with sugar or syrup | Synonyms: sugar-coated |
| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| canicular | (adjective) relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star) | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer | - |
| canine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: laniary |
| cankerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: ulcerated, ulcerous |
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| canned | (adjective) sealed in a can or jar | Synonyms: tinned |
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| (adjective) recorded for broadcast | Synonyms: transcribed |
| cannibalic | (adjective) marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage | - |
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| cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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| cannular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiform |
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| canny | (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, clever |
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| canonic | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonical |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonical |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonical, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonical |
| canonical | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonic |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonic |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonic |
| canonised | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonized, glorified |
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| canonist | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism" | - |
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| canonized | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonised, glorified |
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| canopied | (adjective) covered with or as with a canopy | - |
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| canorous | (adjective) richly melodious | Synonyms: songful |
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| cantabile | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: singing |
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| cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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| (adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
| canted | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, leaning, tilted, tipped |
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| cantering | (adjective) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop | - |
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| cantonal | (adjective) of or relating to a canton | - |
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| canty | (adjective) lively and brisk | - |
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| carangid | (adjective) of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae | - |
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| catapultian | (adjective) of or like a catapult | Synonyms: catapultic |
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| catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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| centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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| cephalopodan | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda | Synonyms: cephalopod |
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| cerulean | (adjective) of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky | Synonyms: azure, bright blue, sky-blue |
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| cesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarian |
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| cesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarean |
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| cetacean | (adjective) of or relating to whales and dolphins etc | Synonyms: cetaceous |
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| chaetognathan | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathous |
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| chance | (adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: casual |
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| chanceful | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chancy, dicey, dodgy |
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| chancroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having chancroids | - |
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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| chancy | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, dicey, dodgy |
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| (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: flukey, fluky, iffy |
| changeable | (adjective) such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeful |
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| (adjective) capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: mutable |
| (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: chatoyant, iridescent, shot |
| (adjective) subject to change | Synonyms: uncertain, unsettled |
| changed | (adjective) made or become different in nature or form | - |
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| (adjective) made or become different in some respect | - |
| changeful | (adjective) such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeable |
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| changeless | (adjective) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: immutable |
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| (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: constant, invariant, unvarying |
| (adjective) remaining the same for indefinitely long times | Synonyms: unalterable |
| changing | (adjective) marked by continuous change or effective action | Synonyms: ever-changing |
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| chanted | (adjective) sung or uttered rhythmically in a monotone | - |
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| chantlike | (adjective) uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting | Synonyms: intoned, singsong |
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| chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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| chelonian | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise | - |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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| christian | (adjective) following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ | - |
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| christianly | (adjective) becoming to or like a Christian | - |
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| chthonian | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonic, nether |
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| circadian | (adjective) of or relating to biological processes occurring at 24-hour intervals | - |
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| circumstantial | (adjective) fully detailed and specific about particulars | - |
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| cismontane | (adjective) on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains | - |
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| civilian | (adjective) associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military | - |
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| clairvoyant | (adjective) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: precognitive, second-sighted |
| clamant | (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: crying, exigent, insistent, instant |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
| clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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| clanging | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clangorous |
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| clangorous | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clanging |
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| clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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