| brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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| brachycephalic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycranial, brachycranic |
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| 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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| brachydactylic | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylous |
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| brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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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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| breeched | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered |
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| broached | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: abroach |
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| bronchial | (adjective) relating to or associated with the bronchi | - |
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| bronchiolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving bronchioles | - |
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| bronchitic | (adjective) suffering from or prone to bronchitis | - |
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| bronchoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to an instrument for examining the interior of the bronchi | - |
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| bunchy | (adjective) occurring close together in bunches or clusters | - |
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| butch | (adjective) (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner | Synonyms: macho |
| butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
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| (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
| cachectic | (adjective) relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia | - |
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| catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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| catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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| catching | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| catchpenny | (adjective) designed to sell quickly without concern for quality | - |
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| catchy | (adjective) likely to attract attention | Synonyms: attention-getting |
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| (adjective) having concealed difficulty | Synonyms: tricky |
| catechetic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetical |
| catechetical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| catechismal | (adjective) of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity | - |
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| catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| chaetal | (adjective) of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles) | - |
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| chaetognathan | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathous |
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| chaetognathous | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathan |
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| chafed | (adjective) painful from having the skin abraded | Synonyms: galled |
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| chafflike | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chaffy |
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| chaffy | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chafflike |
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| (adjective) value | - |
| chagrined | (adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, embarrassed |
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| chained | (adjective) bound with chains | Synonyms: enchained, in chains |
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| chainlike | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| chalky | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: calcareous |
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| (adjective) of something having the color of chalk | - |
| challengeable | (adjective) capable of being challenged | - |
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| challenging | (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: ambitious |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: intriguing |
| (adjective) stimulating interest or thought | Synonyms: thought-provoking |
| chalybeate | (adjective) containing or impregnated with or tasting of iron | - |
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| chambered | (adjective) having compartmental chambers | - |
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| champion | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: prizewinning |
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| champleve | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: cloisonne |
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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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| chaotic | (adjective) of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions | - |
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| (adjective) lacking a visible order or organization | Synonyms: helter-skelter |
| (adjective) completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing | Synonyms: disorderly |
| chapfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated |
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| chapleted | (adjective) provided with a chaplet | - |
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| chapped | (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: cracked, roughened |
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| characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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| characterless | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: nondescript |
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| charcoal | (adjective) of a very dark grey | Synonyms: charcoal-gray, charcoal-grey |
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| chargeable | (adjective) liable to be accused, or cause for such liability | Synonyms: indictable |
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| (adjective) capable of being charged | - |
| charged | (adjective) of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge | - |
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| (adjective) supplied with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: aerated |
| (adjective) fraught with great emotion | Synonyms: supercharged |
| (adjective) capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy | - |
| charismatic | (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: magnetic |
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| charitable | (adjective) full of love and generosity | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by charity | - |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| charmed | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) strongly attracted | Synonyms: captivated |
| charming | (adjective) pleasing or delighting | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
| charnel | (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral |
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| chartaceous | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: paperlike, papery |
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| chartered | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: hired, leased |
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| chartless | (adjective) (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated | Synonyms: uncharted, unmapped |
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| chartreuse | (adjective) of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | - |
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| chary | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, cagy |
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| chaste | (adjective) morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse) | - |
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| (adjective) abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse | - |
| (adjective) pure and simple in design or style | - |
| chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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| chatty | (adjective) prone to friendly informal communication | Synonyms: gossipy, newsy |
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| (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky |
| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| cheap | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: inexpensive |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
| (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: chinchy, chintzy |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| cheapjack | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: shoddy, tawdry |
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| cheating | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: adulterous, two-timing |
| checked | (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checkered, chequered |
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| checkered | (adjective) marked by changeable fortune | - |
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| (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checked, chequered |
| cheeky | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: brash, nervy |
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| cheerful | (adjective) being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits | - |
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| (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: pollyannaish, upbeat |
| cheering | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: comforting, satisfying |
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| cheerless | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: depressing, uncheerful |
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| cheery | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: gay, sunny |
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| cheeselike | (adjective) having the consistency of cheese | - |
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| cheeseparing | (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: close, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
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| cheesy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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