| abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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| ahorse | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorseback |
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| ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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| amphoric | (adjective) the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle | - |
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| anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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| anchoritic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
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| antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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| aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
| authorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: auctorial |
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| authorised | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authoritative, authorized |
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| authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
| authorized | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authoritative |
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| camphoraceous | (adjective) being or having the properties of camphor | - |
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| camphorated | (adjective) impregnated with camphor | - |
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| camphoric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or containing camphor | - |
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| cataphoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: electrophoretic |
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| choragic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus | - |
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| choral | (adjective) related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir | - |
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| chordal | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or emphasizing chords | - |
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| chordate | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata | - |
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| choreographic | (adjective) of or concerned with choreography | - |
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| choric | (adjective) relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus | - |
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| chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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| diaphoretic | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: sudorific |
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| dysphoric | (adjective) generalized feeling of distress | Synonyms: distressed, unhappy |
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| electrophoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: cataphoretic |
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| euphoriant | (adjective) tending to produce euphoria | - |
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| euphoric | (adjective) exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation | - |
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| exhortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortatory, hortative, hortatory |
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| exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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| horary | (adjective) relating to the hours | - |
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| horizontal | (adjective) parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line | - |
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| hormonal | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by hormones | - |
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| horned | (adjective) having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind | - |
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| hornless | (adjective) having no horns | - |
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| hornlike | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: corneous, horny |
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| horny | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: corneous, hornlike |
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| (adjective) having horns or hornlike projections | - |
| (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
| horrendous | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrific, terrible |
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| horrible | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly |
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| horrid | (adjective) exceedingly bad | - |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrific, outrageous |
| horrific | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrid, outrageous |
| horrified | (adjective) stricken with horror | Synonyms: horror-stricken, horror-struck |
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| horrifying | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrible, ugly |
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| hortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortatory |
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| hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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| horticultural | (adjective) of or relating to the cultivation of plants | - |
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| ichorous | (adjective) of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies | Synonyms: sanious |
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| inshore | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: onshore, shoreward |
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| (adjective) close to a shore | - |
| 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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| offshore | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the land | Synonyms: seaward |
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| (adjective) at some distance from the shore | - |
| onshore | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, shoreward |
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| (adjective) on the edge of the land | - |
| phosphorescent | (adjective) emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous | - |
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| phosphoric | (adjective) containing or characteristic of phosphorus | Synonyms: phosphorous |
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| phosphorous | (adjective) containing or characteristic of phosphorus | Synonyms: phosphoric |
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| plethoric | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: overabundant, rife |
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| shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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| shorn | (adjective) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | Synonyms: sheared |
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| short | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive |
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| (adjective) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length | - |
| (adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | - |
| (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: little |
| (adjective) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration | - |
| (adjective) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices | - |
| (adjective) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening | - |
| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt |
| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful |
| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, poor |
| (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, scant |
| shortened | (adjective) with parts removed | Synonyms: cut |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: abbreviated, truncated |
| (adjective) shortened | Synonyms: sawed-off, sawn-off |
| (adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: telescoped |
| shorthand | (adjective) written in abbreviated or symbolic form | - |
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| shortish | (adjective) somewhat short | - |
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| shortsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted |
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| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful |
| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident |
| terpsichorean | (adjective) of or relating to dancing | - |
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| thoracic | (adjective) of or relating to the chest or thorax | Synonyms: pectoral |
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| thoriated | (adjective) being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter | Synonyms: tittering |
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| thornless | (adjective) lacking thorns | Synonyms: spineless |
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| thorny | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny |
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| (adjective) bristling with perplexities | - |
| thorough | (adjective) painstakingly careful and accurate | - |
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| (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: exhaustive, thoroughgoing |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| thoroughbred | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded |
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| thoroughgoing | (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: exhaustive, thorough |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, unadulterated, utter |
| unauthorised | (adjective) not endowed with authority | Synonyms: unauthorized |
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| (adjective) without official authorization | Synonyms: unauthorized, wildcat |
| unauthorized | (adjective) not endowed with authority | Synonyms: unauthorised |
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| (adjective) without official authorization | Synonyms: unauthorised, wildcat |
| uncamphorated | (adjective) not containing camphor | - |
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| unshorn | (adjective) not sheared | Synonyms: unsheared |
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| whorled | (adjective) forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) | Synonyms: verticillate, verticillated |
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| (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted |