| anguine | (adjective) of or related to or resembling a snake | - |
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| animating | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: enlivening |
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| annihilating | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilative, devastating, withering |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: devastating, withering |
| annoying | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| anoperineal | (adjective) relating to the anus and surrounding perineum | - |
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| anopheline | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of malaria mosquitoes | - |
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| anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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| anthelminthic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelmintic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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| anthelmintic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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| anticholinergic | (adjective) inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site | - |
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| anticlinal | (adjective) sloping downward away from a common crest | - |
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| antiknocking | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknock |
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| antineoplastic | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antitumor, antitumour |
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| antinomian | (adjective) relating to or influenced by antinomianism | - |
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| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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| apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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| appalling | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: dismaying |
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| appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appetizing | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetising |
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| appointed | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointive |
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| (adjective) selected for a job | - |
| (adjective) provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind) | - |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed |
| appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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| (adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
| appraising | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: evaluative |
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| approaching | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: coming, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| approving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive |
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| aptitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to aptitudes | - |
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| aquiline | (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: hooked |
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| arching | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arciform, arcuate, bowed |
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| arresting | (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: sensational, stunning |
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| arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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| ascending | (adjective) moving or going or growing upward | - |
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| ascertainable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: discoverable |
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| ascertained | (adjective) discovered or determined by scientific observation | Synonyms: discovered, observed |
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| asinine | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: fatuous, inane |
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| asphyxiating | (adjective) tending to deprive of oxygen | - |
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| aspiring | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspirant, wishful |
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| asquint | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| assassinated | (adjective) murdered by surprise attack for political reasons | - |
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| assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
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| asserting | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: declarative, declaratory |
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| assimilating | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilative, assimilatory |
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| assuming | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assumptive, presumptuous |
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| assuring | (adjective) giving confidence | - |
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| astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
| astounding | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: dumbfounding, dumfounding |
| astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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| (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
| attacking | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: assaultive |
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| attainable | (adjective) capable of being attained or accomplished | Synonyms: come-at-able |
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| attained | (adjective) achieved or reached | - |
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| attending | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: ministrant |
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| attitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to attitudes | - |
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| australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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| autoloading | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: self-loading, semiautomatic |
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| auxinic | (adjective) relating to or containing auxins | - |
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| avitaminotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of avitaminosis | - |
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| awing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
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| awninged | (adjective) covered with an awning | - |
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| backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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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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| baking | (adjective) as hot as if in an oven | Synonyms: baking hot |
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| balding | (adjective) getting bald | - |
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| balking | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balky |
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| banging | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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| bantering | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: facetious, tongue-in-cheek |
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| basinal | (adjective) of or relating to a basin | - |
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| basined | (adjective) enclosed in a basin | - |
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| batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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| beaming | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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| (adjective) cheerful and bright | Synonyms: glad |
| (adjective) pleased and proud | - |
| bearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain | - |
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| becoming | (adjective) displaying or setting off to best advantage | - |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
| beetling | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetle |
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| befitting | (adjective) appropriate to | - |
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| beginning | (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: first |
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| beguiling | (adjective) misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | - |
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| (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, enticing, tempting |
| behind | (adjective) having the lower score or lagging position in a contest | - |
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| behindhand | (adjective) behind schedule | - |
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| belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| bellying | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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| beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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| bettering | (adjective) changing for the better | - |
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| betting | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: card-playing, dissipated, gambling, sporting |
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| bewitching | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| bicylindrical | (adjective) having two cylindrical surfaces usually with parallel axes | - |
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| bigeminal | (adjective) occurring in pairs | - |
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| bilinear | (adjective) linear with respect to each of two variables or positions | - |
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| bilingual | (adjective) using or knowing two languages | - |
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| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| binary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) | - |
| binate | (adjective) growing in two parts or in pairs | - |
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| binaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with two ears | Synonyms: biaural |
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| bindable | (adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bondable |
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| binding | (adjective) executed with proper legal authority | - |
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| binocular | (adjective) relating to both eyes | - |
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| binomial | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of two terms | - |
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| (adjective) having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies | Synonyms: binominal |
| binominal | (adjective) having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies | Synonyms: binomial |
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| binuclear | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binucleate, binucleated |
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| binucleate | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleated |
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| binucleated | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleate |
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