| aeriferous | (adjective) conveying air; as the bronchial tubes | - |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| antiferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to antiferromagnetism | - |
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| antifertility | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: contraceptive, prophylactic |
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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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| auriferous | (adjective) containing gold | Synonyms: gold-bearing |
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| bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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| buffeted | (adjective) pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities | Synonyms: storm-tossed, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost |
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| caffeinic | (adjective) of or containing caffein | - |
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| calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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| 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 | - |
| chafed | (adjective) painful from having the skin abraded | Synonyms: galled |
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| cheliferous | (adjective) having chelae | - |
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| chuffed | (adjective) very pleased | - |
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| chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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| circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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| circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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| confederate | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederative |
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| confederative | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederate |
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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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| coreferent | (adjective) related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction | - |
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| coreferential | (adjective) relating to coreference | Synonyms: co-referent |
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| corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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| corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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| counterfeit | (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: imitative |
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| cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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| deafened | (adjective) caused to hear poorly or not at all | - |
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| deafening | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: earsplitting, thunderous, thundery |
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| dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| defeasible | (adjective) capable of being annulled or voided or terminated | - |
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| defeated | (adjective) beaten or overcome; not victorious | - |
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| (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
| defective | (adjective) markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior | - |
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| (adjective) having a defect | Synonyms: faulty |
| (adjective) not working properly | Synonyms: bad |
| defenceless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenseless |
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| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenseless |
| defendable | (adjective) capable of being defended | Synonyms: defensible |
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| defending | (adjective) attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring | - |
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| defenseless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenceless |
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| (adjective) having no protecting or concealing cover | Synonyms: naked |
| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenceless |
| defensible | (adjective) capable of being defended | Synonyms: defendable |
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| defensive | (adjective) intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack | - |
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| (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
| deferent | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferential, regardful |
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| deferential | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferent, regardful |
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| defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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| different | (adjective) unlike in nature or quality or form or degree | - |
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| (adjective) distinctly separate from the first | - |
| (adjective) differing from all others; not ordinary | - |
| (adjective) distinct or separate | - |
| differentiable | (adjective) possessing a differential coefficient or derivative | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being perceived as different | - |
| differential | (adjective) relating to or showing a difference | - |
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| (adjective) involving or containing one or more derivatives | - |
| differentiated | (adjective) made different (especially in the course of development) or shown to be different | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting biological specialization; adapted during development to a specific function or environment | - |
| disaffected | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: ill-affected, malcontent, rebellious |
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| disinfectant | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: bactericidal, germicidal |
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| effected | (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: accomplished, established |
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| effective | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effectual, efficacious |
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| (adjective) existing in fact; not theoretical; real | - |
| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: efficient |
| (adjective) works well as a means or remedy | - |
| (adjective) ready for service | - |
| (adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: good, in effect, in force |
| effectual | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, efficacious |
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| (adjective) having legal efficacy or force | Synonyms: legal, sound |
| effeminate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| efferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: motorial |
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| 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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| effete | (adjective) deprived of vigor and the ability to be effective | - |
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| (adjective) affected, overrefined, and effeminate | - |
| enfeebling | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, weakening |
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| farfetched | (adjective) (of an idea or story) so exaggerated or ludicrous as to be improbable | Synonyms: far-fetched |
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| (adjective) (of a theory or explanation) highly imaginative but unlikely and unconvincing | Synonyms: far-fetched |
| fearful | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: cowardly |
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| (adjective) experiencing or showing fear | - |
| (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
| (adjective) extremely distressing | Synonyms: frightful |
| (adjective) timid by nature or revealing timidity | Synonyms: timorous, trepid |
| fearless | (adjective) oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them | Synonyms: unafraid |
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| (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
| fearsome | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| feasible | (adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: executable, practicable, viable, workable |
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| featherbrained | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| feathered | (adjective) having or covered with feathers | - |
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| (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathery, plumy |
| featheredged | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, deckled |
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| featherless | (adjective) having no feathers | Synonyms: unfeathered |
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| featherlike | (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: feathery |
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| feathery | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, plumy |
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| (adjective) characterized by a covering of feathers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: featherlike |
| featured | (adjective) made a feature or highlight; given prominence | - |
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| (adjective) having facial features as specified; usually used in combination | - |
| featureless | (adjective) lacking distinguishing characteristics or features | - |
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| febrile | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| fecal | (adjective) of or relating to feces | Synonyms: faecal |
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| feckless | (adjective) generally incompetent and ineffectual | Synonyms: inept |
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| (adjective) not fit to assume responsibility | - |
| feculent | (adjective) foul with waste matter | - |
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| fecund | (adjective) capable of producing offspring or vegetation | - |
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| (adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fertile, prolific |
| federal | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the central government of a federation | - |
| (adjective) national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units | - |
| federate | (adjective) united under a central government | Synonyms: federated |
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| federated | (adjective) united under a central government | Synonyms: federate |
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| feeble | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| (adjective) lacking strength | Synonyms: nerveless |
| (adjective) lacking strength or vigor | Synonyms: faint |
| (adjective) pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness | Synonyms: lame |
| feebleminded | (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: backward, half-witted, slow-witted |
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| feigned | (adjective) not genuine | - |
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| feisty | (adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: huffy, thin-skinned, touchy |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: plucky, spunky |
| felicitous | (adjective) exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style | - |
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| (adjective) marked by good fortune | Synonyms: happy |
| feline | (adjective) of or relating to cats | - |
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| fell | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| felonious | (adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: criminal |
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| felted | (adjective) made by combining fibers with a binder using heat and pressure | - |
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| female | (adjective) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop | - |
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| (adjective) for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: distaff |
| feminine | (adjective) associated with women and not with men | - |
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| (adjective) female (of grammatical gender) | - |
| (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman | Synonyms: womanly |
| (adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable | - |
| feminist | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women | - |
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