| anabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope | - |
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| anabiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of anabiosis | - |
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| anabolic | (adjective) characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism | - |
| anachronic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronistic, anachronous |
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| anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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| anachronous | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronistic |
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| anaclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; progressing in a direction opposite to the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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| anaclitic | (adjective) of or related to relationships that are characterized by the strong dependence of one person on another | - |
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| anacoluthic | (adjective) of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons | - |
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| anadromous | (adjective) migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn | - |
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| anaemic | (adjective) relating to anemia or suffering from anemia | Synonyms: anemic |
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| (adjective) lacking vigor or energy | Synonyms: anemic |
| anaerobic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobiotic |
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| (adjective) not aerobic | - |
| anaerobiotic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobic |
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| anaesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
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| (adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
| anaglyphic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphical, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyphical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyptic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyptical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptic |
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| anagogic | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogical |
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| anagogical | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogic |
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| anagrammatic | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatical |
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| anagrammatical | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatic |
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| anal | (adjective) a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc. | Synonyms: anal retentive |
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| (adjective) of or related to the anus | - |
| analeptic | (adjective) stimulating the central nervous system | - |
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| analgesic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgetic, anodyne |
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| analgetic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne |
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| analog | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analogue, linear |
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| analogical | (adjective) expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy | - |
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| analogous | (adjective) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin | - |
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| (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: correspondent |
| analogue | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analog, linear |
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| analphabetic | (adjective) not alphabetic | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic | - |
| (adjective) having little acquaintance with writing | Synonyms: unlettered |
| analytic | (adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytical |
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| (adjective) expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection | Synonyms: uninflected |
| (adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytical |
| (adjective) using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus | - |
| analytical | (adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytic |
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| (adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytic |
| analyzable | (adjective) capable of being partitioned | Synonyms: decomposable |
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| analyzed | (adjective) examined carefully and methodically; broken down for consideration of constituent parts | - |
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| anamnestic | (adjective) of or relating to anamnesis; aiding the memory | - |
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| anamorphic | (adjective) pertaining to a kind of distorting optical system | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to gradual evolution from one type of organism to another | - |
| anapaestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapestic |
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| anapestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapaestic |
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| anaphasic | (adjective) of or related to the stage of mitosis known as anaphase | - |
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| anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| anaphylactic | (adjective) related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis | - |
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| anaplastic | (adjective) of or relating to anaplasia | - |
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| anarchic | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchical, lawless |
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| anarchical | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchic, lawless |
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| anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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| anasarcous | (adjective) characterized by or affected by dropsy | - |
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| anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
| anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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| anatomic | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomical |
| anatomical | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomic |
| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| aplanatic | (adjective) free from or corrected for spherical aberration | - |
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| bacchanal | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| banal | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| banausic | (adjective) (formal) ordinary and not refined | - |
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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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| cleanable | (adjective) capable of being cleaned | - |
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| coplanar | (adjective) lying in the same plane | - |
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| cryptanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| explanatory | (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear | - |
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| fanatic | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatical, overzealous, rabid |
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| fanatical | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatic, overzealous, rabid |
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| lanate | (adjective) covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments | Synonyms: woolly |
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| manageable | (adjective) capable of being managed or controlled | - |
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| (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: accomplishable, achievable, doable, realizable |
| managerial | (adjective) of or relating to the function or responsibility or activity of management | - |
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| morganatic | (adjective) (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior | Synonyms: left-handed |
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| neuroanatomic | (adjective) of or relating to neural tissue or the nervous system | Synonyms: neuroanatomical |
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| neuroanatomical | (adjective) of or relating to neural tissue or the nervous system | Synonyms: neuroanatomic |
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| paranasal | (adjective) adjacent to the nasal cavities | - |
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| perianal | (adjective) around the anus | - |
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| planar | (adjective) involving or having two dimensions | Synonyms: two-dimensional |
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| planate | (adjective) having been flattened | Synonyms: flattened |
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| preanal | (adjective) situated in front of the anus | - |
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| profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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| psychoanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: psychoanalytical |
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| psychoanalytical | (adjective) of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: psychoanalytic |
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| sanative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, healing, remedial, therapeutic |
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| solanaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family) | - |
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| supranational | (adjective) transcending established national boundaries or spheres of interest | - |
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| ultranationalistic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic |
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| unanalyzable | (adjective) representing the furthest possible extent of analysis or division into parts | Synonyms: undecomposable |
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| unanalyzed | (adjective) not analyzed or broken down for detailed examination | - |
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| unmanageable | (adjective) hard to control | Synonyms: difficult |
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| (adjective) difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape | Synonyms: unwieldy |
| (adjective) incapable of being controlled or managed | Synonyms: uncontrollable, uncorrectable |
| (adjective) difficult to solve or alleviate | Synonyms: uncontrollable |