| bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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| cachectic | (adjective) relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia | - |
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| calefactive | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactory |
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| calefactory | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactive |
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| catalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| cathectic | (adjective) of or relating to cathexis | - |
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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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| chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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| chylifactory | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific |
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| circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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| climactic | (adjective) consisting of or causing a climax | - |
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| coarctate | (adjective) (of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case | - |
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| collect | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: cod |
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| collectable | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectible, payable |
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| collected | (adjective) brought together in one place | Synonyms: gathered |
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| (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
| collectible | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectable, payable |
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| collective | (adjective) forming a whole or aggregate | - |
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| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: corporate |
| (adjective) set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government | - |
| collectivised | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivized |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
| collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| collectivized | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivised |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, state-controlled |
| colorectal | (adjective) relating to or affecting the colon and the rectum | - |
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| compact | (adjective) closely and firmly united or packed together | - |
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| (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compendious, succinct, summary |
| (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset |
| conductive | (adjective) having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity | - |
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| conflicting | (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, contradictory, self-contradictory |
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| (adjective) on bad terms | - |
| conjectural | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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| conjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals of a second | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
| (adjective) bound in close association | - |
| conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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| conjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to connect | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, cooperative, united |
| connected | (adjective) joined or linked together | - |
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| (adjective) plugged in | - |
| (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: affiliated, attached |
| (adjective) wired together to an alarm system | - |
| (adjective) stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer | Synonyms: machine-accessible |
| connective | (adjective) connecting or tending to connect | - |
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| constricted | (adjective) drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically | - |
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| (adjective) especially tense; especially in some dialects | - |
| constricting | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constrictive, narrowing |
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| constrictive | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, narrowing |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, limiting, restricting |
| constructive | (adjective) constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | - |
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| (adjective) emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | - |
| contractable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable |
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| contracted | (adjective) reduced in size or pulled together | - |
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| contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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| contractual | (adjective) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement | - |
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| contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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| (adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
| (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
| (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
| correct | (adjective) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: right |
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| (adjective) correct in opinion or judgment | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) socially right or correct | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure | Synonyms: right |
| correctable | (adjective) capable of being corrected by additions | Synonyms: amendable |
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| (adjective) capable of being returned to the original condition; not necessarily permanent | - |
| corrected | (adjective) having something undesirable neutralized | - |
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| correctional | (adjective) concerned with or providing correction | - |
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| corrective | (adjective) tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition | - |
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| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: disciplinal, disciplinary |
| counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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| counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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| counterproductive | (adjective) tending to hinder the achievement of a goal | - |
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| ctenoid | (adjective) resembling a comb; having projections like the teeth of a comb | Synonyms: comb-like |
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| cyanobacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanophyte |
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| cytoarchitectonic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectural |
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| cytoarchitectural | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonic |
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| dactylic | (adjective) of or consisting of dactyls | - |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| deductible | (adjective) acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction) | - |
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| deductive | (adjective) involving inferences from general principles | - |
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| (adjective) relating to logical deduction | - |
| defective | (adjective) markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior | - |
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| (adjective) having a defect | Synonyms: faulty |
| (adjective) not working properly | Synonyms: bad |
| deflective | (adjective) capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave) | Synonyms: refractive |
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| defunct | (adjective) having ceased to exist or live | - |
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| (adjective) no longer in force or use; inactive | - |
| deictic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use | - |
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| dejected | (adjective) affected or marked by low spirits | - |
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| delectable | (adjective) capable of arousing sexual desire | Synonyms: sexually attractive |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
| depicted | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: pictured, portrayed |
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| depictive | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: delineative |
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| derelict | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, neglectful, remiss |
| (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: abandoned, deserted |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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| destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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| detectable | (adjective) easily seen or detected | Synonyms: perceptible |
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| (adjective) capable of being detected | Synonyms: noticeable |
| detected | (adjective) perceived or discerned | - |
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| (adjective) perceived with the mind | - |
| detractive | (adjective) causing to decrease in importance or value | - |
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| dialectal | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of a dialect | - |
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| dialectic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectical |
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| dialectical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectic |
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| dictated | (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: determined, set |
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| dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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| (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| dictyopteran | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the order Dictyoptera | - |
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| didactic | (adjective) instructive (especially excessively) | Synonyms: didactical |
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| didactical | (adjective) instructive (especially excessively) | Synonyms: didactic |
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| direct | (adjective) direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short | - |
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| (adjective) (of a current) flowing in one direction only | - |
| (adjective) straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action | - |
| (adjective) similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
| (adjective) in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child | Synonyms: lineal |
| (adjective) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth | - |
| (adjective) lacking compromising or mitigating elements | Synonyms: exact |
| (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: verbatim |
| (adjective) having no intervening persons, agents, conditions | Synonyms: unmediated |
| (adjective) being an immediate result or consequence | - |
| directed | (adjective) manageable by a supervising agent | - |
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| (adjective) (often used in combination) having a specified direction | - |
| directing | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directional, directive, guiding |
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| directional | (adjective) relating to or indicating directions in space | - |
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| (adjective) relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal | - |
| (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directive, guiding |
| directionless | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
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| directive | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding |
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| disaffected | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: ill-affected, malcontent, rebellious |
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| disconnected | (adjective) (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply | Synonyms: staccato |
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| (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disunited, fragmented, split |
| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| (adjective) not plugged in or connected to a power source | - |
| (adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: abrupt |
| disinfectant | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: bactericidal, germicidal |
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| disjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second | - |
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| (adjective) used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations | - |
| (adjective) having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects | - |
| (adjective) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements | Synonyms: isolated |
| disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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| disrespectful | (adjective) exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous | - |
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| (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, awless |
| dissatisfactory | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying |
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| dissected | (adjective) having one or more indentations reaching nearly to the midrib | Synonyms: cleft |
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| distinct | (adjective) easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined | - |
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| (adjective) clearly or sharply defined to the mind | Synonyms: clear-cut, trenchant |
| (adjective) recognizable; marked | Synonyms: decided |
| (adjective) (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality | Synonyms: distinguishable |
| (adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: discrete |
| distinctive | (adjective) of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing | Synonyms: typical |
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| (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: classifiable |
| distracted | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distrait |
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| doctoral | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctorial |
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| doctorial | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctoral |
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| doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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| doctrinal | (adjective) relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine | - |
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