| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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| acneiform | (adjective) resembling acne | - |
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| adrift | (adjective) afloat on the surface of a body of water | - |
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| (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
| aeriferous | (adjective) conveying air; as the bronchial tubes | - |
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| aeriform | (adjective) resembling air or having the form of air | Synonyms: airlike |
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| (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aery, airy, ethereal |
| afeard | (adjective) a pronunciation of afraid | Synonyms: afeared |
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| afeared | (adjective) a pronunciation of afraid | Synonyms: afeard |
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| afebrile | (adjective) having no fever | - |
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| affable | (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: amiable, cordial, genial |
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| affected | (adjective) acted upon; influenced | - |
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| (adjective) speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression | Synonyms: unnatural |
| (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: moved, stirred, touched |
| affecting | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: poignant, touching |
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| affectional | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affective, emotive |
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| affectionate | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: fond, lovesome, tender |
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| affective | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, emotive |
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| afferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS | - |
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| affiliated | (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: attached, connected |
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| affinal | (adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affine |
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| affine | (adjective) (mathematics) of or pertaining to the geometry of affine transformations | - |
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| (adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affinal |
| affined | (adjective) closely related | - |
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| affirmable | (adjective) capable of being affirmed or asserted | Synonyms: assertable |
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| affirmative | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmatory |
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| (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: approbative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: optimistic |
| affirmatory | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmative |
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| affixal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a linguistic affix | Synonyms: affixial |
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| affixed | (adjective) firmly attached | - |
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| affixial | (adjective) of or pertaining to a linguistic affix | Synonyms: affixal |
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| afflicted | (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: stricken |
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| (adjective) mentally or physically unfit | Synonyms: impaired |
| afflictive | (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: painful, sore |
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| affluent | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
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| affordable | (adjective) that you have the financial means for | Synonyms: low-cost, low-priced |
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| afire | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, aflame, aflare, alight, on fire |
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| aflame | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflare, alight, on fire |
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| (adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aroused |
| aflare | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, on fire |
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| (adjective) streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air | Synonyms: flaring |
| aflicker | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: flickering |
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| afloat | (adjective) borne on the water; floating | - |
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| (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
| (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
| aflutter | (adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: nervous |
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| afoot | (adjective) currently in progress | Synonyms: underway |
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| (adjective) traveling by foot | - |
| aforementioned | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforesaid, said |
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| aforesaid | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforementioned, said |
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| aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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| afoul | (adjective) especially of a ship's lines etc | Synonyms: foul, fouled |
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| afraid | (adjective) filled with fear or apprehension | - |
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| (adjective) filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement | - |
| (adjective) having feelings of aversion or unwillingness | - |
| (adjective) feeling worry or concern or insecurity | - |
| aft | (adjective) (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail | - |
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| after | (adjective) located farther aft | - |
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| aftermost | (adjective) located closest to the stern or tail | - |
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| aftershafted | (adjective) having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers) | - |
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| alfresco | (adjective) in the open air | Synonyms: open-air |
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| aliform | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, alary, wing-shaped |
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| aloof | (adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: distant, upstage |
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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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| amygdaliform | (adjective) shaped like an almond | Synonyms: almond-shaped, amygdaloid, amygdaloidal |
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| anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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| antiaircraft | (adjective) designed for defense from a surface position against air attack | - |
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| antiferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to antiferromagnetism | - |
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| antifertility | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: contraceptive, prophylactic |
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| antifungal | (adjective) capable of destroying fungi | Synonyms: fungicidal |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| aquiferous | (adjective) of or relating to an aquifer | - |
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| arboriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arciform | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arcuate, bowed |
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| argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
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| artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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| artful | (adjective) marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft | - |
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| (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: disingenuous |
| artifactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artefactual |
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| artificial | (adjective) contrived by art rather than nature | Synonyms: unreal |
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| (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: contrived, hokey, stilted |
| (adjective) not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes | - |
| auriferous | (adjective) containing gold | Synonyms: gold-bearing |
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| auriform | (adjective) having a shape resembling an ear | Synonyms: ear-like, ear-shaped |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| avifaunal | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunistic |
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| avifaunistic | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunal |
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| awful | (adjective) offensive or even (of persons) malicious | Synonyms: nasty |
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| (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: frightful, terrible, tremendous |
| (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awing |
| (adjective) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence | Synonyms: awed |
| bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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| bacilliform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, baculiform, rod-shaped |
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| baculiform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, rod-shaped |
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| baffled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| baffling | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
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| baleful | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| (adjective) deadly or sinister | Synonyms: baneful |
| baneful | (adjective) deadly or sinister | Synonyms: baleful |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: deadly, pernicious, pestilent |
| barefaced | (adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: bald |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| barefoot | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefooted, shoeless |
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| barefooted | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefoot, shoeless |
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| bashful | (adjective) disposed to avoid notice | Synonyms: blate |
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| (adjective) self-consciously timid | - |
| basifixed | (adjective) attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) | - |
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| battleful | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicose, combative |
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| beatific | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
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| (adjective) experiencing or bestowing celestial joy | - |
| beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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| beautiful | (adjective) delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather) highly enjoyable | - |
| bedfast | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed |
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| beefy | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: buirdly, burly, husky, strapping |
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| befitting | (adjective) appropriate to | - |
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| befogged | (adjective) stupefied by alcoholic drink | Synonyms: befuddled |
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| beforehand | (adjective) being ahead of time or need | Synonyms: advance |
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| befouled | (adjective) made dirty or foul | Synonyms: fouled |
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| befuddled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
| (adjective) stupefied by alcoholic drink | Synonyms: befogged |
| benefic | (adjective) exerting a favorable or beneficent influence | - |
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| beneficed | (adjective) having a benefice | - |
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| beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| beneficial | (adjective) promoting or enhancing well-being | Synonyms: good |
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| beneficiary | (adjective) having or arising from a benefice | - |
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