| 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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| holometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolous |
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| holometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolic |
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| homiletic | (adjective) of or relating to homiletics | Synonyms: homiletical |
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| (adjective) of the nature of a homily or sermon | Synonyms: homiletical |
| homiletical | (adjective) of or relating to homiletics | Synonyms: homiletic |
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| (adjective) of the nature of a homily or sermon | Synonyms: homiletic |
| hydrokinetic | (adjective) relating to fluids in motion or the forces that produce or affect such motion | - |
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| hydrometric | (adjective) of or relating to hydrometry | Synonyms: gravimetric |
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| hypaethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypethral |
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| hypermetropic | (adjective) abnormal ability to focus of distant objects | Synonyms: hyperopic |
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| hypethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypaethral |
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| hypothetic | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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| hypothetical | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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| immunocompetent | (adjective) capable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| impenetrable | (adjective) not admitting of penetration or passage into or through | - |
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| (adjective) impossible to understand | - |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, heavy |
| impetiginous | (adjective) of or relating to or having impetigo | - |
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| impetuous | (adjective) marked by violent force | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
| inaesthetic | (adjective) violating aesthetic canons or requirements; deficient in tastefulness or beauty | Synonyms: unaesthetic |
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| incompetent | (adjective) not qualified or suited for a purpose | - |
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| (adjective) legally not qualified or sufficient | Synonyms: unqualified |
| (adjective) not doing a good job | Synonyms: unskilled |
| (adjective) not meeting requirements | Synonyms: incapable, unequal to |
| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, fumbling |
| incomplete | (adjective) not complete or total; not completed | Synonyms: uncomplete |
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| (adjective) not yet finished | Synonyms: uncompleted |
| indeterminable | (adjective) not capable of being definitely decided or ascertained | Synonyms: undeterminable |
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| (adjective) incapable of being definitely ascertained or calculated | - |
| indeterminate | (adjective) not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance | Synonyms: undetermined |
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| (adjective) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex | - |
| (adjective) of uncertain or ambiguous nature | - |
| (adjective) not leading to a definite ending or result | - |
| (adjective) (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved | - |
| indiscreet | (adjective) lacking discretion; injudicious | - |
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| indiscrete | (adjective) not divided or divisible into parts | - |
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| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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| interpretable | (adjective) capable of being understood | Synonyms: explainable |
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| interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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| interpreted | (adjective) understood in a certain way; made sense of | Synonyms: taken |
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| interpretive | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretative |
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| inveterate | (adjective) habitual | Synonyms: chronic |
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| irretrievable | (adjective) impossible to recover or recoup or overcome | Synonyms: unretrievable |
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| isometric | (adjective) of or involving muscular contraction in which tension increases while length remains constant | - |
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| (adjective) related by an isometry | - |
| (adjective) of a crystal system characterized by three equal axes at right angles | - |
| (adjective) having equal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: isometrical |
| isometrical | (adjective) having equal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: isometric |
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| jet | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, pitchy, sooty |
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| jetting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting |
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| karyokinetic | (adjective) of or relating to the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis | - |
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| kinaesthetic | (adjective) of or relating to kinesthesis | Synonyms: kinesthetic |
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| kinesthetic | (adjective) of or relating to kinesthesis | Synonyms: kinaesthetic |
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| kinetic | (adjective) relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith | - |
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| (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energising, energizing |
| (adjective) characterized by motion | - |
| larghetto | (adjective) (of tempo) less slow and broad than largo | - |
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| lethal | (adjective) of an instrument of certain death | Synonyms: deadly |
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| lethargic | (adjective) deficient in alertness or activity | Synonyms: unenergetic |
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| lettered | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowing, knowledgeable, learned, well-educated, well-read |
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| lowset | (adjective) lower than average | Synonyms: low-set |
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| magnetic | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetised, magnetized |
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| (adjective) determined by earth's magnetic fields | - |
| (adjective) capable of being magnetized | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or caused by magnetism | - |
| (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: charismatic |
| magnetised | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetic, magnetized |
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| magnetized | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetic, magnetised |
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| marketable | (adjective) capable of being marketed | - |
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| (adjective) being in demand by especially employers | - |
| (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: merchantable, sellable, vendable, vendible |
| meet | (adjective) being precisely fitting and right | Synonyms: fitting |
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| meretricious | (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute | - |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, specious |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| metabolic | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to metabolism | - |
| metabolous | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolic |
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| metacarpal | (adjective) of or relating to the metacarpus | - |
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| metacentric | (adjective) having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the metacenter | - |
| metagrabolised | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolized, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| metagrabolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| metagrobolised | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrabolized, metagrobolized, mystified |
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| metagrobolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrabolized, metagrobolised, mystified |
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| metal | (adjective) containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal | Synonyms: metallic |
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| metallic | (adjective) containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal | Synonyms: metal |
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| metallike | (adjective) resembling metal | Synonyms: metal-looking, metallic-looking |
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| metalloid | (adjective) of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the properties of metal | - |
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| metallurgic | (adjective) of or relating to metallurgy | Synonyms: metallurgical |
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| metallurgical | (adjective) of or relating to metallurgy | Synonyms: metallurgic |
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| metameric | (adjective) having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters | Synonyms: segmental, segmented |
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| metamorphic | (adjective) characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks) | Synonyms: metamorphous |
| metamorphous | (adjective) of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks) | Synonyms: metamorphic |
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| (adjective) produced by metamorphosis | - |
| metaphoric | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphorical |
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| metaphorical | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphoric |
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| metaphysical | (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics | - |
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| (adjective) transcending physical matter or the laws of nature | - |
| (adjective) highly abstract and overly theoretical | - |
| metastable | (adjective) (of physical systems) continuing in its present state of equilibrium unless sufficiently disturbed to pass to a more stable state of equilibrium | - |
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| metastatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by metastasis | - |
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| metatarsal | (adjective) of or relating to the metatarsus | - |
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| meteoric | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions | Synonyms: meteorologic, meteorological |
| (adjective) like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience | - |
| meteoritic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by meteorites | Synonyms: meteoritical |
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| meteoritical | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by meteorites | Synonyms: meteoritic |
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| meteorologic | (adjective) of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions | Synonyms: meteoric, meteorological |
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| meteorological | (adjective) of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions | Synonyms: meteoric, meteorologic |
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| methodical | (adjective) characterized by method and orderliness | - |
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| methodological | (adjective) relating to the methodology of some discipline | - |
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| methylated | (adjective) having received a methyl group | - |
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| meticulous | (adjective) marked by extreme care in treatment of details | - |
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| (adjective) marked by precise accordance with details | Synonyms: punctilious |
| metonymic | (adjective) using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated | Synonyms: metonymical |
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| metonymical | (adjective) using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated | Synonyms: metonymic |
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| metric | (adjective) based on the meter as a standard of measurement | Synonyms: metrical |
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| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: measured, metrical |
| metrical | (adjective) based on the meter as a standard of measurement | Synonyms: metric |
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| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: measured, metric |
| metrological | (adjective) of or relating to metrology | - |
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| metropolitan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a metropolis | - |
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