| acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| adulterous | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: extracurricular, extramarital |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: cheating, two-timing |
| aeriferous | (adjective) conveying air; as the bronchial tubes | - |
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| aerobic | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerophilic, aerophilous |
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| (adjective) based on or using the principles of aerobics; enhancing respiratory and circulatory efficiency | - |
| aerobiotic | (adjective) living or active only in the presence of oxygen | - |
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| aerodynamic | (adjective) of or relating to aerodynamics | - |
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| (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: flowing, sleek, streamlined |
| aerolitic | (adjective) of or pertaining to certain stony meteorites | - |
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| aerological | (adjective) of or pertaining to aerology | - |
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| aeromechanic | (adjective) of or pertaining to aerodynamics | - |
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| aeromedical | (adjective) of or relating to aviation medicine | - |
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| aeronautic | (adjective) of or pertaining to aeronautics | Synonyms: aeronautical |
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| aeronautical | (adjective) of or pertaining to aeronautics | Synonyms: aeronautic |
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| aerophilatelic | (adjective) of or relating to airmail stamps | - |
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| aerophilic | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerobic, aerophilous |
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| aerophilous | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerobic, aerophilic |
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| aerosolised | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolized |
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| aerosolized | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolised |
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| allomerous | (adjective) pertaining to allomerism | - |
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| aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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| amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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| anaerobic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobiotic |
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| (adjective) not aerobic | - |
| anaerobiotic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobic |
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| aneroid | (adjective) containing no liquid or actuated without the use of liquid | - |
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| anterograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma | - |
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| apterous | (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apteral |
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| aquiferous | (adjective) of or relating to an aquifer | - |
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| argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
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| arteriosclerotic | (adjective) affected by arteriosclerosis | - |
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| asteroid | (adjective) shaped like a star | Synonyms: star-shaped |
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| asteroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling an asteroid | - |
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| atheromatic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling atheroma | Synonyms: atheromatous |
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| atheromatous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling atheroma | Synonyms: atheromatic |
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| atherosclerotic | (adjective) of or relating to atherosclerosis | - |
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| auriferous | (adjective) containing gold | Synonyms: gold-bearing |
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| autoerotic | (adjective) sexually satisfying yourself (as by masturbation) | - |
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| bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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| bacteroid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroidal |
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| bacteroidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroid |
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| blusterous | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blustery |
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| boisterous | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: knockabout |
| (adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: fierce, rough |
| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| cankerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: ulcerated, ulcerous |
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| cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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| (adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
| carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
| cerous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium with valence 3 | - |
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| chelicerous | (adjective) having chelicerae | - |
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| cheliferous | (adjective) having chelae | - |
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| chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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| congenerous | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerical |
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| coniferous | (adjective) of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves | Synonyms: cone-bearing |
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| cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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| dangerous | (adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm | Synonyms: unsafe |
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| (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
| derogative | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogatory, disparaging |
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| derogatory | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, disparaging |
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| dexterous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dextrous |
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| dipterous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera | - |
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| eroded | (adjective) worn away as by water or ice or wind | Synonyms: scoured |
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| erogenous | (adjective) sensitive to sexual stimulation | - |
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| erose | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed |
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| erosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) wearing away by friction | - |
| erotic | (adjective) giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing | Synonyms: titillating |
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| exteroceptive | (adjective) of or relating to exteroception | - |
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| ferocious | (adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: fierce, furious, savage |
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| feverous | (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| fiberoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fibre-optic, fibreoptic |
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| fossiliferous | (adjective) bearing or containing fossils | - |
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| gemmiferous | (adjective) bearing or reproducing by a gemma | - |
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| generous | (adjective) willing to give and share unstintingly | - |
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| (adjective) not petty in character and mind | - |
| (adjective) more than is usual or necessary | - |
| gerontological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing geriatrics | Synonyms: geriatric |
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| granuliferous | (adjective) producing or full of granules | - |
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| heroic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity | - |
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| (adjective) having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes | Synonyms: heroical |
| (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: desperate |
| (adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: expansive, grand |
| (adjective) very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale) | Synonyms: epic, larger-than-life |
| heroical | (adjective) having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes | Synonyms: heroic |
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| heterocercal | (adjective) possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the upper lobe | - |
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| heterocyclic | (adjective) containing a closed ring of atoms of which at least one is not a carbon atom | - |
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| heterodactyl | (adjective) (of bird feet) having the first and second toes directed backward the third and fourth forward | - |
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| heterodox | (adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: dissident, heretical |
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| heterodyne | (adjective) of or relating to the beat produced by heterodyning two oscillations | - |
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| heteroecious | (adjective) of parasites; passing through different stages of the life cycle on different host species | - |
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| heterogeneous | (adjective) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature | Synonyms: heterogenous |
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| (adjective) originating outside the body | Synonyms: heterogenous |
| heterogenous | (adjective) originating outside the body | Synonyms: heterogeneous |
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| (adjective) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature | Synonyms: heterogeneous |
| heteroicous | (adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: polygamous, polyoicous |
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| heterologic | (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterological, heterologous |
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| heterological | (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterologous |
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| heterologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of a different but related species | - |
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| (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterological |
| heterometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolous |
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| heterometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolic |
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| heterosexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex | - |
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| heterosporous | (adjective) characterized by heterospory | - |
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| heterothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, poikilothermic, poikilothermous |
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| heterotrophic | (adjective) requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment | - |
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| heterozygous | (adjective) having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| hieroglyphic | (adjective) written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols | Synonyms: hieroglyphical |
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| (adjective) resembling hieroglyphic writing | Synonyms: hieroglyphical |
| hieroglyphical | (adjective) written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
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| (adjective) resembling hieroglyphic writing | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
| homoerotic | (adjective) of or concerning homosexual love | - |
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| hymenopterous | (adjective) of or relating to insects of the order Hymenoptera | - |
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| hyperopic | (adjective) abnormal ability to focus of distant objects | Synonyms: hypermetropic |
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| icterogenic | (adjective) producing jaundice | - |
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