| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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| adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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| (adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
| (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
| aesculapian | (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: medical |
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| albescent | (adjective) becoming or shading into white | - |
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| alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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| alfresco | (adjective) in the open air | Synonyms: open-air |
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| alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| churrigueresco | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresque |
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| coalesced | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, consolidated, fused |
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| coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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| coalescing | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescent |
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| condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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| deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| 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 | - |
| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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| escaped | (adjective) having escaped, especially from confinement | Synonyms: at large, loose, on the loose |
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| eschatological | (adjective) of or relating to or dealing with or regarding the ultimate destiny of mankind and the world | - |
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| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| excrescent | (adjective) forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) | - |
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| fluorescent | (adjective) brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source | - |
| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| ignescent | (adjective) can emit sparks or burst into flame | - |
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| imputrescible | (adjective) not subject to decay | - |
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| incandescent | (adjective) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: candent |
| indescribable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
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| inescapable | (adjective) impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: ineluctable, unavoidable |
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| intumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| iridescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent |
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| (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, shot |
| liquescent | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: melting |
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| luminescent | (adjective) emitting light not caused by heat | - |
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| nescient | (adjective) holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible | Synonyms: unbelieving |
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| (adjective) uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication | Synonyms: ignorant, unlearned, unlettered |
| nondescript | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: characterless |
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| noneffervescent | (adjective) not effervescent | - |
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| (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: still |
| nonprescription | (adjective) purchasable without a doctor's prescription | Synonyms: over-the-counter |
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| nontelescopic | (adjective) not telescopic | Synonyms: nontelescoping |
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| nontelescoping | (adjective) not telescopic | Synonyms: nontelescopic |
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| obsolescent | (adjective) becoming obsolete | - |
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| opalescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opaline, pearlescent |
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| pearlescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline |
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| phosphorescent | (adjective) emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous | - |
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| preadolescent | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preteen |
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| prepubescent | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubertal |
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| prescient | (adjective) perceiving the significance of events before they occur | - |
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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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| pubescent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, puberulent, sericeous |
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| (adjective) (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature | - |
| putrescent | (adjective) becoming putrid | - |
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| putrescible | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrefiable, spoilable |
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| quiescent | (adjective) being quiet or still or inactive | - |
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| (adjective) (pathology) causing no symptoms | - |
| (adjective) not active or activated | - |
| (adjective) marked by a state of tranquil repose | - |
| recrudescent | (adjective) the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement | - |
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| rescindable | (adjective) capable of being rescinded or voided | Synonyms: voidable |
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| rescued | (adjective) delivered from danger | Synonyms: reclaimed |
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| senescent | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
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| suffrutescent | (adjective) of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year | - |
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| telescoped | (adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: shortened |
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| telescopic | (adjective) having parts that slide one within another | - |
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| (adjective) capable of discerning distant objects | - |
| (adjective) visible only with a telescope | - |
| threescore | (adjective) being ten more than fifty | Synonyms: 60, lx, sixty |
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| tumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumid, turgid |
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| undescended | (adjective) (of the testis) remaining in the abdomen instead of descending into the scrotum | - |
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| undescriptive | (adjective) not successful in describing | - |
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