| fluorescent | (adjective) brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source | - |
| geocentric | (adjective) having the earth as the center | - |
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| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| heliocentric | (adjective) having the sun as the center | - |
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| homocentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, concentrical |
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| ignescent | (adjective) can emit sparks or burst into flame | - |
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| incandescent | (adjective) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: candent |
| incendiary | (adjective) involving deliberate burning of property | - |
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| (adjective) capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily | - |
| (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
| incensed | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: indignant, outraged, umbrageous |
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| indecent | (adjective) offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters | - |
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| (adjective) offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance | - |
| (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward |
| indehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits) not opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| innocent | (adjective) free from evil or guilt | Synonyms: clean-handed, guiltless |
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| (adjective) lacking intent or capacity to injure | Synonyms: innocuous |
| (adjective) lacking in sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: ingenuous |
| (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, devoid, free |
| (adjective) (used of things) lacking sense or awareness | - |
| (adjective) not knowledgeable about something specified | Synonyms: unacquainted |
| (adjective) free from sin | Synonyms: impeccant, sinless |
| intumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| iridescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent |
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| (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, shot |
| licenced | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licensed |
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| licensed | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licenced |
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| licentious | (adjective) lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained | - |
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| liquescent | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: melting |
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| lucent | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lambent, luminous |
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| luminescent | (adjective) emitting light not caused by heat | - |
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| magnificent | (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, splendid |
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| maleficent | (adjective) harmful or evil in intent or effect | - |
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| matricentric | (adjective) centered upon the mother | - |
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| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| 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 | - |
| munificent | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| nascent | (adjective) being born or beginning | - |
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| nocent | (adjective) having a tendency to cause harm | - |
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| noctilucent | (adjective) shining or glowing by night | - |
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| nonadjacent | (adjective) not adjacent; not next | - |
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| nonconcentric | (adjective) not having a common center; not concentric | Synonyms: eccentric |
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| noneffervescent | (adjective) not effervescent | - |
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| (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: still |
| obscene | (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, raunchy, salacious |
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| (adjective) designed to incite to indecency or lust | - |
| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, repugnant, repulsive |
| obsolescent | (adjective) becoming obsolete | - |
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| opalescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opaline, pearlescent |
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| patricentric | (adjective) centered upon the father | - |
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| pearlescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline |
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| phosphorescent | (adjective) emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous | - |
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| placental | (adjective) pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta | - |
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| preadolescent | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preteen |
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| prepubescent | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubertal |
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| pubescent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, puberulent, sericeous |
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| (adjective) (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature | - |
| putrescent | (adjective) becoming putrid | - |
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| quiescent | (adjective) being quiet or still or inactive | - |
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| (adjective) (pathology) causing no symptoms | - |
| (adjective) not active or activated | - |
| (adjective) marked by a state of tranquil repose | - |
| quincentenary | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentennial |
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| quincentennial | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentenary |
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| radiolucent | (adjective) almost complete transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation | - |
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| recent | (adjective) new | - |
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| (adjective) of the immediate past or just previous to the present time | Synonyms: late |
| recrudescent | (adjective) the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement | - |
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| reminiscent | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, resonant |
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| renascent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: resurgent |
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| reticent | (adjective) temperamentally disinclined to talk | Synonyms: untalkative |
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| (adjective) reluctant to draw attention to yourself | Synonyms: retiring, self-effacing |
| (adjective) cool and formal in manner | Synonyms: restrained, unemotional |
| scenic | (adjective) of or relating to the stage or stage scenery | - |
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| (adjective) used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery | - |
| scented | (adjective) having the sense of smell | - |
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| (adjective) (used in combination) having the odor of | - |
| (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet |
| (adjective) filled or impregnated with perfume | Synonyms: perfumed |
| scentless | (adjective) lacking the sense of smell | - |
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| (adjective) emitting or holding no odor | - |
| semicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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| semicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentenary |
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| senescent | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
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| subjacent | (adjective) lying nearby but lower | - |
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| suffrutescent | (adjective) of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year | - |
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| superjacent | (adjective) lying immediately above or on something else | - |
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| telocentric | (adjective) having the form of a straight rod because the centromere is in a terminal position | - |
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| transcendent | (adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: surpassing |
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| (adjective) beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding | - |
| transcendental | (adjective) of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | - |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural |
| translucent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparent |
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| transplacental | (adjective) occurring through or by way of the placenta | - |
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| tricentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years | Synonyms: tricentennial |
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| tricentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years | Synonyms: tricentenary |
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| tumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumid, turgid |
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| unaccented | (adjective) (used of syllables) carrying no stress | Synonyms: atonic |
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| (adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: light, weak |
| uncensored | (adjective) not subject to censorship | - |
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| undescended | (adjective) (of the testis) remaining in the abdomen instead of descending into the scrotum | - |
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| unlicenced | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unaccredited, unlicensed |
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| unlicensed | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unaccredited, unlicenced |
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| unmercenary | (adjective) not mercenary; not influenced by financial gains | - |
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| vicenary | (adjective) of or relating to or based on 20 | - |
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| vicennial | (adjective) occurring once every 20 years | - |
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