| acrid | (adjective) strong and sharp | Synonyms: pungent |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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| acritical | (adjective) without a crisis (as of some diseases) | - |
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| adscript | (adjective) written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscripted |
| adscripted | (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscript |
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| alacritous | (adjective) quick and eager | - |
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| apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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| ascribable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: due, imputable, referable |
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| circumscribed | (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: limited |
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| criminal | (adjective) guilty of crime or serious offense | - |
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| (adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: felonious |
| (adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious |
| criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| criminological | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in criminology | - |
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| crimson | (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: red, violent |
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| (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
| (adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: flushed, red-faced, red, reddened |
| cringey | (adjective) embarrassing such that it would cause cringing | - |
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| cringing | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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| crinkled | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinkly | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinoid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the class Crinoidea | - |
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| crippled | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: game, gimpy, halt, halting, lame |
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| crippling | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: disabling, incapacitating |
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| crisp | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy |
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| (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: curt, laconic, terse |
| (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy |
| (adjective) (of something seen or heard) clearly defined | Synonyms: sharp |
| (adjective) pleasingly firm and fresh | - |
| (adjective) tender and brittle | Synonyms: crispy |
| crispate | (adjective) wavy or notched and curled very irregularly | - |
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| crispy | (adjective) tender and brittle | Synonyms: crisp |
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| crisscross | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscrossed |
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| crisscrossed | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscross |
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| criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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| criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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| critical | (adjective) marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment | - |
| (adjective) being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency | - |
| (adjective) at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction | - |
| (adjective) of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism | - |
| (adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: decisive |
| (adjective) urgently needed; absolutely necessary | Synonyms: vital |
| describable | (adjective) capable of being described | - |
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| described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| diacritic | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritical |
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| diacritical | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritic |
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| discriminable | (adjective) capable of being discriminated | - |
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| discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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| discriminating | (adjective) showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste | - |
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| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
| discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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| (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
| eccrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell; important in regulating body temperature | - |
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| endocrinal | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrine |
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| endocrine | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrinal |
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| exocrine | (adjective) of or relating to exocrine glands or their secretions | - |
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| hypercritical | (adjective) inclined to judge too severely | Synonyms: overcritical |
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| hypocritical | (adjective) professing feelings or virtues one does not have | - |
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| incriminating | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminatory |
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| incriminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating |
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| indescribable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
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| indiscriminate | (adjective) not marked by fine distinctions | - |
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| (adjective) failing to make or recognize distinctions | - |
| indiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: undiscriminating |
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| inscribed | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, graven, incised |
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| (adjective) written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface | - |
| inscriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an inscription | - |
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| lacrimal | (adjective) of or relating to tears | Synonyms: lachrymal |
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| (adjective) relating to or located near the organ that produces tears | Synonyms: lachrymal |
| lacrimatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lachrymatory |
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| neuroendocrine | (adjective) of or relating to the nervous and endocrine systems (especially as they function together) | - |
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| noncritical | (adjective) not in a state of crisis or emergency | Synonyms: noncrucial |
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| (adjective) not critical; not at a point of abrupt change | - |
| (adjective) marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures | Synonyms: uncritical |
| nondescript | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: characterless |
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| nonprescription | (adjective) purchasable without a doctor's prescription | Synonyms: over-the-counter |
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| overcritical | (adjective) inclined to judge too severely | Synonyms: hypercritical |
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| oversubscribed | (adjective) sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets | - |
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| prescribed | (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) set down as a rule or guide | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: official |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, ordained |
| prescription | (adjective) available only with a doctor's written prescription | - |
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| prescriptive | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: normative |
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| proscribed | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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| recriminative | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminatory |
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| recriminatory | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminative |
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| sacrificeable | (adjective) may be deliberately sacrificed to achieve an objective | - |
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| sacrificial | (adjective) used in or connected with a sacrifice | - |
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| sacrilegious | (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
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| scrimpy | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, stingy |
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| scrimy | (adjective) dirty and disgusting | - |
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| (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, niggardly |
| scripted | (adjective) written as for a film or play or broadcast | Synonyms: written |
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| scriptural | (adjective) of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible | Synonyms: biblical |
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| (adjective) written or relating to writing | - |
| scrivened | (adjective) copied in handwriting | - |
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| subscribed | (adjective) (of a contract or will or other document) having a signature written at the end | - |
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| subscript | (adjective) written or printed below and to one side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
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| supercritical | (adjective) (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases | - |
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| superscript | (adjective) written or printed above and to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
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| transcribed | (adjective) recorded for broadcast | Synonyms: canned |
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| unascribable | (adjective) not attributable | Synonyms: unattributable |
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| uncritical | (adjective) not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors | - |
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| (adjective) marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures | Synonyms: noncritical |
| undescriptive | (adjective) not successful in describing | - |
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| undiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: indiscriminating |
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| unscripted | (adjective) not furnished with or using a script | - |
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