| gothic | (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: mediaeval, medieval |
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| (adjective) characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque | - |
| graphic | (adjective) relating to or presented by a graph | Synonyms: graphical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the graphic arts | - |
| (adjective) describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail | - |
| (adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind | Synonyms: lifelike, pictorial, vivid |
| (adjective) written or drawn or engraved | Synonyms: graphical, in writing |
| graphical | (adjective) relating to or presented by a graph | Synonyms: graphic |
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| (adjective) written or drawn or engraved | Synonyms: graphic, in writing |
| gushing | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, effusive |
| (adjective) flowing profusely | Synonyms: pouring |
| gymnosophical | (adjective) of or relating to gymnosophy | - |
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| gynandromorphic | (adjective) having both male and female morphological characteristics | Synonyms: gynandromorphous |
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| haemophilic | (adjective) relating to or having hemophilia | Synonyms: hemophilic |
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| healthier | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: fitter |
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| helminthic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, parasiticidal |
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| hemimetamorphic | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphous |
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| hemophilic | (adjective) relating to or having hemophilia | Synonyms: haemophilic |
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| heterotrophic | (adjective) requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment | - |
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| hibernal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: brumal, hiemal |
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| hibernating | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, torpid |
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| hick | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| hidden | (adjective) difficult to find | Synonyms: obscure |
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| (adjective) not accessible to view | Synonyms: concealed, out of sight |
| (adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: secret |
| hidebound | (adjective) stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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| hideous | (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: horrid, horrific, outrageous |
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| (adjective) so extremely ugly as to be terrifying | Synonyms: repulsive |
| hidrotic | (adjective) of or relating to sweat | - |
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| hiemal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: brumal, hibernal |
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| hierarchal | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchic, hierarchical |
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| hierarchic | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchical |
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| hierarchical | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchic |
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| hieratic | (adjective) written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing | - |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratical, priestly, sacerdotal |
| (adjective) adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal | - |
| hieratical | (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, priestly, sacerdotal |
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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 |
| hifalutin | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| high | (adjective) (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high') | - |
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| (adjective) greater than normal in quantity or amount | - |
| (adjective) used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency | Synonyms: high-pitched |
| (adjective) happy and excited and energetic | Synonyms: in high spirits |
| (adjective) slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) | Synonyms: mellow |
| (adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamey, gamy |
| (adjective) standing above others in quality or position | Synonyms: eminent |
| highborn | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: coroneted, titled |
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| highbrow | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrowed |
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| highbrowed | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrow |
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| higher | (adjective) of education beyond the secondary level | - |
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| (adjective) advanced in complexity or elaboration | - |
| highfalutin | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| highfaluting | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| highflying | (adjective) moving upward or along at a considerable height | - |
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| (adjective) extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions | - |
| highland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: upland |
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| hilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located near a hilum | - |
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| hilarious | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: screaming, uproarious |
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| hilly | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, craggy, mountainous |
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| hind | (adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: back, hinder |
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| hinder | (adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: back, hind |
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| hindering | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, impeding, obstructive |
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| hindermost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: backmost, hindmost, rearmost |
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| hindmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: backmost, hindermost, rearmost |
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| hip | (adjective) informed about the latest trends | Synonyms: hep, hip to |
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| hiplength | (adjective) extending to or just over the hips | Synonyms: hip-length |
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| hipless | (adjective) having or seeming to have no hips | - |
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| hipped | (adjective) having hips; or having hips as specified (usually in combination) | - |
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| (adjective) (of a roof) sloping on all sides | - |
| hircine | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suggestive of a goat (especially in strong odor) | - |
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| hired | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: chartered, leased |
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| (adjective) having services engaged for a fee | - |
| hirsute | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: haired, hairy |
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| hispid | (adjective) (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles | - |
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| histologic | (adjective) of or relating to histology | Synonyms: histological |
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| histological | (adjective) of or relating to histology | Synonyms: histologic |
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| historic | (adjective) important in history | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historical |
| historical | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: diachronic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the study of history | - |
| (adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historic |
| (adjective) having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary | - |
| historied | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: celebrated, storied |
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| histrionic | (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected | Synonyms: melodramatic |
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| hitless | (adjective) (of a batter) without a hit | - |
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| (adjective) having no points scores | Synonyms: goalless, pointless, scoreless |
| holographic | (adjective) written entirely in one's own hand | Synonyms: holographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to holography or holograms | - |
| (adjective) written wholly in the handwriting of the signer | - |
| holographical | (adjective) written entirely in one's own hand | Synonyms: holographic |
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| homeopathic | (adjective) of or relating to the practice of homeopathy | Synonyms: homoeopathic |
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| homoeopathic | (adjective) of or relating to the practice of homeopathy | Synonyms: homeopathic |
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| homophile | (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: gay, queer |
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| hydrographic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of hydrography | Synonyms: hydrographical |
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| hydrographical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of hydrography | Synonyms: hydrographic |
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| hydropathic | (adjective) of or relating to hydropathy or its administration | - |
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| hydrophilic | (adjective) having a strong affinity for water; tending to dissolve in, mix with, or be wetted by water | - |
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| hypertrophied | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells | Synonyms: enlarged |
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| ideographic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of ideograms | - |
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| idiographic | (adjective) relating to or involving the study of individuals | - |
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| idiopathic | (adjective) (of diseases) arising from an unknown cause | - |
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| indehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits) not opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| inhibited | (adjective) held back or restrained or prevented | - |
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| inhibitory | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: repressing, repressive |
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| isomorphic | (adjective) having similar appearance but genetically different | Synonyms: isomorphous |
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| labyrinthian | (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthine, mazy |
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| labyrinthine | (adjective) relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthian, mazy |
| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous |
| larghissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) as slow and broad as possible | - |
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| lashing | (adjective) violently urging on by whipping or flogging | - |
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| laughing | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: riant |
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| leptorhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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| leptorrhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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| leptorrhinian | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinic |
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| leptorrhinic | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian |
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| lexicographic | (adjective) of or relating to lexicography | Synonyms: lexicographical |
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| lexicographical | (adjective) of or relating to lexicography | Synonyms: lexicographic |
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| lipophilic | (adjective) having an affinity for lipids | Synonyms: lipotropic |
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| lithic | (adjective) relating to or composed of stone | - |
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| (adjective) of or containing lithium | - |
| lithographic | (adjective) of or produced by or involved in lithography | - |
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| logographic | (adjective) of or relating to logograms or logographs | Synonyms: logogrammatic |
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| lyophilised | (adjective) used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: freeze-dried, lyophilized |
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| lyophilized | (adjective) used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances; dried by freezing in a high vacuum | Synonyms: freeze-dried, lyophilised |
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| machinelike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, automatonlike, robotic, robotlike |
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| makeshift | (adjective) done or made using whatever is available | Synonyms: improvised, jury-rigged |
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| masochistic | (adjective) deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from being abused or dominated | - |
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| matching | (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated |
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| (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, twin, twinned |
| matriarchic | (adjective) (of societies or families) having a female as the family head or having descent traced through the female line | - |
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| megalithic | (adjective) of or relating to megaliths or the people who erected megaliths | - |
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