| oscitant | (adjective) showing lack of attention or boredom | Synonyms: drowsy, yawning |
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| overabundant | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: plethoric, rife |
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| overvaliant | (adjective) having or showing undue valor or boldness | - |
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| paleoanthropological | (adjective) of or concerned with the scientific study of human fossils | - |
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| palpitant | (adjective) having a slight and rapid trembling motion | Synonyms: palpitating |
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| pantalooned | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: breeched, trousered |
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| pantheist | (adjective) of or relating to pantheism | Synonyms: pantheistic |
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| pantheistic | (adjective) of or relating to pantheism | Synonyms: pantheist |
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| pantropic | (adjective) distributed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: pantropical |
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| pantropical | (adjective) distributed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: pantropic |
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| passant | (adjective) in walking position with right foreleg raised | - |
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| peccant | (adjective) liable to sin | Synonyms: peccable |
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| pedantic | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, donnish |
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| pendant | (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: dependent, pendent |
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| permeant | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeating, permeative, pervasive |
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| petulant | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| phantasmagoric | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic |
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| phantasmagorical | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagoric, surreal, surrealistic |
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| phantasmal | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, spectral, spiritual |
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| phantom | (adjective) something apparently sensed but having no physical reality | - |
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| philanthropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary |
| piquant | (adjective) attracting or delighting | Synonyms: engaging |
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| (adjective) engagingly stimulating or provocative | Synonyms: salty |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: savory, savoury, zesty |
| plantal | (adjective) of or relating to plants | - |
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| plantar | (adjective) relating to or occurring on the undersurface of the foot | - |
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| planted | (adjective) set in the soil for growth | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held | Synonyms: deep-rooted, deep-seated, implanted, ingrained |
| plantigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) | - |
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| pleasant | (adjective) affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior | - |
| pliant | (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: elastic, flexible, pliable |
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| (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: bendable, pliable, waxy |
| (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliable, tensile, tractile |
| (adjective) capable of being influenced or formed | Synonyms: plastic |
| poignant | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: affecting, touching |
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| (adjective) keenly distressing to the mind or feelings | - |
| polysemantic | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemous |
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| precipitant | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitous |
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| predominant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominate, preponderant, preponderating |
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| (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, prevailing, prevalent, rife |
| pregnant | (adjective) carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life | - |
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| (adjective) filled with or attended with | Synonyms: fraught |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, significant |
| preponderant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderating |
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| propellant | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellent, propelling, propulsive |
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| protestant | (adjective) protesting | - |
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| protuberant | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy |
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| puissant | (adjective) powerful or influential | - |
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| pursuant | (adjective) (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with | - |
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| quantal | (adjective) of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states | Synonyms: quantized |
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| quantifiable | (adjective) capable of being quantified | - |
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| quantitative | (adjective) expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement | - |
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| (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables | - |
| (adjective) relating to the measurement of quantity | - |
| quantized | (adjective) of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states | Synonyms: quantal |
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| quarantined | (adjective) under forced isolation especially for health reasons | Synonyms: isolated |
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| radiant | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, effulgent, refulgent |
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| rampant | (adjective) (of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth | - |
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| (adjective) rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile | Synonyms: rearing |
| (adjective) unrestrained and violent | - |
| recalcitrant | (adjective) marked by stubborn resistance to authority | - |
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| (adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: fractious, refractory |
| recombinant | (adjective) of or relating to recombinant DNA | - |
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| recreant | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: craven |
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| (adjective) having deserted a cause or principle | Synonyms: renegade |
| recusant | (adjective) refusing to submit to authority | - |
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| (adjective) (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England | Synonyms: dissentient |
| redundant | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: pleonastic, tautologic, tautological |
| reentrant | (adjective) (of angles) pointing inward | Synonyms: re-entrant |
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| refrigerant | (adjective) causing cooling or freezing | Synonyms: refrigerating |
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| regardant | (adjective) looking backward | - |
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| regnant | (adjective) exercising power or authority | Synonyms: reigning, ruling |
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| relaxant | (adjective) tending to relax or relieve muscular or nervous tension | - |
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| relevant | (adjective) having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue | - |
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| reliant | (adjective) relying on another for support | - |
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| reluctant | (adjective) disinclined to become involved | - |
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| (adjective) not eager | - |
| (adjective) unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom | Synonyms: loath, loth |
| renunciant | (adjective) used especially of behavior | Synonyms: renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying |
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| repellant | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellent |
| repentant | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: penitent |
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| repugnant | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repulsive |
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| resistant | (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive |
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| (adjective) impervious to being affected | - |
| (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: repellent |
| (adjective) able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress | Synonyms: tolerant |
| (adjective) relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) | Synonyms: immune |
| resonant | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent |
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| (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative |
| resultant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, sequent |
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| revenant | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a revenant | - |
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| (adjective) coming back | Synonyms: recurring |
| reverberant | (adjective) having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected | - |
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| riant | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: laughing |
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| romantic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romanticist, romanticistic |
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| (adjective) not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic | Synonyms: quixotic, wild-eyed |
| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, amorous |
| romanticist | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticistic |
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| romanticistic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticist |
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| ruminant | (adjective) related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud | - |
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| scant | (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, short |
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| scanty | (adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: bare, spare |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) revealing the body | Synonyms: skimpy |
| scintillant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillating, sparkly |
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| semantic | (adjective) of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning | - |
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| sibilant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, spirant, strident |
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| significant | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: important |
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| (adjective) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation | - |
| (adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, pregnant |
| slanted | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| (adjective) favoring one person or side over another | Synonyms: biased, colored, coloured, one-sided |
| slanting | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, sloped, sloping |
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| sonant | (adjective) produced with vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: soft, voiced |
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| spirant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, strident |
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| stagnant | (adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: dead |
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| (adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: moribund |
| statant | (adjective) standing on four feet | - |
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| stimulant | (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulating |
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| substantial | (adjective) having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary | Synonyms: material, real |
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| (adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: significant |
| (adjective) of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something | Synonyms: substantive |
| (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy |
| (adjective) of good quality and condition; solidly built | Synonyms: solid, strong |
| (adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: hearty, satisfying, solid, square |
| substantiating | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| substantiative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| substantival | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature or function of a substantive (i.e. a noun or noun equivalent) | - |
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| substantive | (adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: essential |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) being on topic and prompting thought | Synonyms: meaty |
| superabundant | (adjective) most excessively abundant | - |
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| supernatant | (adjective) of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate | - |
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| suppliant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: supplicant, supplicatory |
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| supplicant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicatory |
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| susurrant | (adjective) making a low continuous indistinct sound | Synonyms: murmuring, whispering |
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| sycophantic | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, toadyish |
| synsemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful only when it occurs in the company of other words | - |
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| tantalising | (adjective) very pleasantly inviting | Synonyms: tantalizing, tempting |
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| (adjective) arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach | Synonyms: tantalizing |
| tantalizing | (adjective) very pleasantly inviting | Synonyms: tantalising, tempting |
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| (adjective) arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach | Synonyms: tantalising |