| abiogenetic | (adjective) originating by abiogenesis | - |
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| ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| abranchious | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchiate, gill-less |
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| abstemious | (adjective) sparing in consumption of especially food and drink | - |
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| (adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: light |
| abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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| abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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| accessional | (adjective) of or constituting an accession | - |
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| accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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| acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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| actionable | (adjective) affording grounds for legal action | - |
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| adagio | (adjective) (of tempo) leisurely | - |
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| adaptational | (adjective) of or relating to adaptation | - |
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| additional | (adjective) further or added | Synonyms: extra |
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| adscititious | (adjective) added or derived from something outside; not inherent | - |
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| (adjective) supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing | - |
| adventitious | (adjective) associated by chance and not an integral part | - |
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| aerobiotic | (adjective) living or active only in the presence of oxygen | - |
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| aetiologic | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiological, etiologic, etiological |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiological, etiologic, etiological |
| aetiological | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, etiologic, etiological |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, etiologic, etiological |
| 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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| aforementioned | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforesaid, said |
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| agrobiologic | (adjective) of or pertaining to agrobiology | Synonyms: agrobiological |
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| agrobiological | (adjective) of or pertaining to agrobiology | Synonyms: agrobiologic |
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| ambagious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| ambitionless | (adjective) having little desire for success or achievement | Synonyms: unambitious |
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| ambitious | (adjective) having a strong desire for success or achievement | - |
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| (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: challenging |
| ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| amelioratory | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative |
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| amnionic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amniotic |
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| amniotic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amnionic |
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| amphibiotic | (adjective) having an aquatic early or larval form and a terrestrial adult form | Synonyms: semiaquatic |
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| amphibious | (adjective) operating or living on land and in water | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibian |
| anabiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of anabiosis | - |
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| anaerobiotic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobic |
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| angiocarpic | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpous |
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| angiocarpous | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpic |
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| angiomatous | (adjective) of or related to or having a tumor of the kind known as an angioma | - |
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| angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
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| anionic | (adjective) of or relating to anions | - |
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| annexational | (adjective) relating to annexation | - |
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| anterior | (adjective) of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body | - |
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| (adjective) earlier in time | Synonyms: prior |
| antibiotic | (adjective) of or relating to antibiotic drugs | - |
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| antimonious | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonic |
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| antipollution | (adjective) intended to reduce pollution | - |
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| anxiolytic | (adjective) anxiety relieving | - |
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| anxious | (adjective) eagerly desirous | Synonyms: dying |
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| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet |
| aperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: nonperiodic |
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| aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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| apparitional | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| apportionable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, allocatable |
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| apportioned | (adjective) given out in portions | Synonyms: dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out |
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| appositional | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositive |
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| arbitrational | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitral |
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| archdiocesan | (adjective) of or relating to an archdiocese | - |
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| ariose | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: songlike |
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| arsenious | (adjective) relating to compounds in which arsenic is trivalent | - |
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| arteriolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving arterioles | - |
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| arteriosclerotic | (adjective) affected by arteriosclerosis | - |
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| arteriovenous | (adjective) connecting an artery to a vein | - |
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| artiodactyl | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla | Synonyms: artiodactylous, even-toed |
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| artiodactylous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla | Synonyms: artiodactyl, even-toed |
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| ascensional | (adjective) tending to rise | - |
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| associational | (adjective) of or relating to associations or associationism | - |
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| ateleiotic | (adjective) of or relating to ateleiosis | - |
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| atrabilious | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: bilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
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| atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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| atrocious | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: frightful, horrible, horrifying, ugly |
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| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: flagitious, grievous, monstrous |
| attentional | (adjective) of or relating to attention | - |
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| attritional | (adjective) relating to or caused by attrition | - |
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| audacious | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: daring, venturesome, venturous |
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| (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| audiometric | (adjective) of or relating to audiometry | - |
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| audiovisual | (adjective) involving both hearing and seeing (usually relating to teaching aids) | - |
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| auspicious | (adjective) auguring favorable circumstances and good luck | - |
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| autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
| autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
| autoecious | (adjective) of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | Synonyms: homoecious |
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| autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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| avaricious | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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| avionic | (adjective) of or relating to avionics | - |
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| avocational | (adjective) of or involved in an avocation | - |
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| axiological | (adjective) of or relating to the study of values | - |
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| axiomatic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatical, postulational |
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| (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: aphoristic |
| (adjective) evident without proof or argument | Synonyms: self-evident, taken for granted |
| axiomatical | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, postulational |
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| bacterioid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioidal, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacterioidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacteriologic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriological |
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| bacteriological | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriologic |
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| bacteriolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis | - |
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| bacteriophagic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagous |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| basidiomycetous | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes | - |
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| basidiosporous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia | - |
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| bastioned | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: fortified |
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| behavioral | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioural |
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| behaviorist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behavioristic, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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