| mecopterous | (adjective) of or relating to mecopterans | - |
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| microeconomic | (adjective) of or relating to microeconomics | - |
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| microelectronic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of miniature electronic components | - |
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| mnemotechnic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemonic, mnemotechnical |
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| mnemotechnical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemonic, mnemotechnic |
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| molecular | (adjective) relating to simple or elementary organization | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or produced by or consisting of molecules | - |
| monecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monoecious, monoicous |
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| monoecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monecious, monoicous |
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| myrmecophagous | (adjective) feeding on ants | - |
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| myrmecophilous | (adjective) living symbiotically with ants | - |
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| myrmecophytic | (adjective) of or relating to myrmecophytes | - |
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| necessary | (adjective) absolutely essential | - |
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| (adjective) unavoidably determined by prior circumstances | - |
| necessitous | (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, poverty-stricken |
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| necked | (adjective) having a neck or having a neck especially as specified | - |
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| neckless | (adjective) lacking or apparently lacking a neck | - |
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| necklike | (adjective) resembling a neck | - |
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| necromantic | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantical |
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| (adjective) given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead | - |
| necromantical | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantic |
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| necrotic | (adjective) relating to or affected by necrosis | - |
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| nectariferous | (adjective) possessing nectaries | - |
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| nectarous | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, ambrosian |
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| neglected | (adjective) lacking a caretaker | Synonyms: unattended |
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| (adjective) disregarded | Synonyms: ignored, unheeded |
| neglectful | (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, derelict, remiss |
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| (adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: inattentive |
| nonechoic | (adjective) not echoic or imitative of sound | - |
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| nonelected | (adjective) filled by appointment rather than by election | Synonyms: non-elective, nonelective |
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| nonelective | (adjective) filled by appointment rather than by election | Synonyms: non-elective, nonelected |
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| noninfectious | (adjective) not infectious | - |
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| nonintellectual | (adjective) not intellectual | - |
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| nonintersecting | (adjective) (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing | Synonyms: nonconvergent |
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| nonmechanical | (adjective) not mechanical | - |
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| (adjective) (of a person) lacking mechanical skills | Synonyms: unmechanical |
| nonmechanistic | (adjective) not mechanistic | - |
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| nonobjective | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative |
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| nonreciprocal | (adjective) not reciprocal | - |
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| nonreciprocating | (adjective) not moving alternately forward and backward | - |
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| nonrecreational | (adjective) involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby | Synonyms: paid |
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| nonreflecting | (adjective) not capable of physical reflection | Synonyms: nonreflective |
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| nonreflective | (adjective) not capable of physical reflection | Synonyms: nonreflecting |
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| nonsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: unsectarian |
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| nonspecific | (adjective) not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in making microscope slides | - |
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| nonsubjective | (adjective) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | Synonyms: objective |
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| nontechnical | (adjective) not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences | Synonyms: untechnical |
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| objectionable | (adjective) causing disapproval or protest | Synonyms: obnoxious |
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| (adjective) liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to | Synonyms: exceptionable |
| objective | (adjective) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | Synonyms: nonsubjective |
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| (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: accusative |
| (adjective) belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events | - |
| (adjective) emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation | - |
| oecumenic | (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenical |
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| oecumenical | (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
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| (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenic |
| omnidirectional | (adjective) not directional | - |
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| orthomolecular | (adjective) designating or relating to a form of treatment of mental disorders that seeks to restore biochemical balance in the body with large doses of vitamins and minerals | - |
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| overprotective | (adjective) overly protective | - |
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| peccable | (adjective) liable to sin | Synonyms: peccant |
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| peccant | (adjective) liable to sin | Synonyms: peccable |
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| peckish | (adjective) somewhat hungry | - |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| pectic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from pectin | - |
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| pectinate | (adjective) like a comb | - |
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| pectineal | (adjective) of or relating to the pubis | - |
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| pectoral | (adjective) of or relating to the chest or thorax | Synonyms: thoracic |
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| peculiar | (adjective) characteristic of one only; distinctive or special | - |
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| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: particular, special |
| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
| (adjective) markedly different from the usual; special | - |
| pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: monetary |
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| pelecypod | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypodous |
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| pelecypodous | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod |
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| pentecostal | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring at Pentecost | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of any of various Pentecostal religious bodies or their members | - |
| perfect | (adjective) being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish | - |
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| (adjective) precisely accurate or exact | - |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| perfected | (adjective) (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed | - |
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| perfectible | (adjective) capable of becoming or being made perfect | - |
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| photoelectric | (adjective) of or pertaining to photoelectricity | Synonyms: photoelectrical |
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| photoelectrical | (adjective) of or pertaining to photoelectricity | Synonyms: photoelectric |
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| photomechanical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving various methods of using photography to make plates for printing | - |
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| piecemeal | (adjective) one thing at a time | Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, step-by-step, stepwise |
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| piezoelectric | (adjective) relating to or involving piezoelectricity | - |
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| pinchbeck | (adjective) serving as an imitation or substitute | - |
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| pinnatisect | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in narrow divisions not separated into distinct leaflets | - |
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| pluperfect | (adjective) more than perfect | - |
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| precancerous | (adjective) of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated | - |
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| precarious | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: parlous, perilous, touch-and-go |
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| (adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties | Synonyms: shaky |
| (adjective) affording no ease or reassurance | Synonyms: unstable |
| precast | (adjective) of structural members especially of concrete; cast into form before being transported to the site of installation | - |
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| precative | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precatory |
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| precatory | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precative |
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| precautional | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautionary |
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| precautionary | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautional |
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| precedent | (adjective) preceding in time, order, or significance | - |
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| precedented | (adjective) having or supported or justified by a precedent | - |
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| precedential | (adjective) having precedence (especially because of longer service) | - |
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| preceding | (adjective) existing or coming before | - |
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| (adjective) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | Synonyms: past, retiring |
| precious | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: cute |
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| (adjective) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for | Synonyms: cherished, treasured, wanted |
| (adjective) of high worth or cost | - |
| (adjective) held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature | Synonyms: valued |
| precipitant | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitous |
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| precipitate | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous |
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| precipitating | (adjective) bringing on suddenly or abruptly | - |
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| precipitous | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate |
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| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: abrupt, sharp |
| precise | (adjective) sharply exact or accurate or delimited | - |
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| (adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: accurate, exact |
| preclinical | (adjective) of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared | Synonyms: presymptomatic |
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| preclusive | (adjective) made impossible | Synonyms: obviating |
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| precocial | (adjective) (of hatchlings) covered with down and having eyes open; capable of leaving the nest within a few days | - |
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| precocious | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude) | - |
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| (adjective) appearing or developing early | - |
| precognitive | (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: clairvoyant, second-sighted |
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| preconceived | (adjective) (of an idea or opinion) formed beforehand; especially without evidence or through prejudice | - |
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| preconcerted | (adjective) previously arranged or agreed on | - |
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| preconditioned | (adjective) having already been put into a suitable condition | - |
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| precooked | (adjective) cooked partially or completely beforehand | - |
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| precooled | (adjective) cooled in advance | - |
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| precordial | (adjective) in front of the heart; involving the precordium | - |
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| precursory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: premonitory |
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