| acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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| acknowledged | (adjective) recognized or made known or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) generally accepted | - |
| aflicker | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: flickering |
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| ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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| airlike | (adjective) resembling air or having the form of air | Synonyms: aeriform |
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| airsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, carsick, seasick |
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| akimbo | (adjective) (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body | - |
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| akin | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| (adjective) similar in quality or character | Synonyms: kindred |
| alike | (adjective) having the same or similar characteristics | Synonyms: like, similar |
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| alkahestic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the alkahest that alchemists assumed to exist | - |
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| alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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| alkalic | (adjective) relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7 | Synonyms: alkaline |
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| alkaline | (adjective) relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7 | Synonyms: alkalic |
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| alkaloidal | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of alkaloids | - |
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| alkalotic | (adjective) marked by alkalosis (or a tendency toward alkalosis) | - |
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| alkylic | (adjective) of or related to an alkyl | - |
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| amok | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amuck, berserk |
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| amuck | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, berserk |
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| aniseikonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the visual defect aniseikonia | - |
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| ankylotic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the abnormality ankylosis | - |
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| antiblack | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, racist |
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| anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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| antiknock | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknocking |
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| antiknocking | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknock |
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| antitank | (adjective) designed for defense against armored vehicles | - |
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| apelike | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apish |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, anthropoidal |
| aphakic | (adjective) of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia | - |
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| armlike | (adjective) resembling an arm | - |
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| askance | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| askant | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| askew | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| asterisked | (adjective) marked with an asterisk | Synonyms: starred |
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| attacking | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: assaultive |
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| autarkic | (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkical |
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| autarkical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarchical |
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| (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkic |
| automatonlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
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| awake | (adjective) not in a state of sleep; completely conscious | - |
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| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, alive |
| awakened | (adjective) aroused or activated | - |
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| (adjective) (somewhat formal) having been waked up | - |
| awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
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| awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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| awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
| (adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
| babelike | (adjective) like a baby especially in dependence | - |
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| back | (adjective) related to or located at the back | - |
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| (adjective) of an earlier date | - |
| (adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: hind, hinder |
| 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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| backed | (adjective) having a back or backing, usually of a specified type | - |
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| (adjective) used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light | - |
| backhand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhanded |
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| (adjective) (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward | Synonyms: left-slanting |
| backhanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhand |
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| (adjective) roundabout or ambiguous | - |
| backless | (adjective) lacking a back | - |
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| backmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: hindermost, hindmost, rearmost |
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| backstage | (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: offstage |
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| backstair | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstairs, furtive |
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| backstairs | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, furtive |
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| backswept | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: sweptback |
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| backward | (adjective) directed or facing toward the back or rear | - |
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| (adjective) (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature | - |
| (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted |
| (adjective) having made less than normal progress | - |
| baked | (adjective) (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven) | - |
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| (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked |
| baking | (adjective) as hot as if in an oven | Synonyms: baking hot |
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| balking | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balky |
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| balky | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balking |
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| bankable | (adjective) acceptable to or at a bank | - |
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| (adjective) guaranteed to bring a profit | - |
| bankrupt | (adjective) financially ruined | Synonyms: belly-up |
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| bareback | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
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| barebacked | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
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| barky | (adjective) resembling the rough bark of a tree | - |
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| beadlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beady, buttonlike, buttony |
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| beaked | (adjective) having or resembling a beak | - |
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| beakless | (adjective) not having a beak or bill | - |
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| beaklike | (adjective) resembling the beak of a bird | - |
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| beltlike | (adjective) resembling a belt around something | Synonyms: belt-like |
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| berrylike | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: baccate |
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| berserk | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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| bespoke | (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoken, made-to-order, tailor-made, tailored |
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| bespoken | (adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: betrothed, engaged |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoke, made-to-order, tailor-made, tailored |
| bewhiskered | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bearded, whiskered, whiskery |
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| birken | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birchen |
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| biweekly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
| black | (adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin | - |
| (adjective) marked by anger or resentment or hostility | - |
| (adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: blackened |
| (adjective) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading | - |
| (adjective) extremely dark | Synonyms: pitch-black, pitch-dark |
| (adjective) soiled with dirt or soot | Synonyms: smutty |
| (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
| (adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: dark, sinister |
| (adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: bleak, dim |
| (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled |
| (adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: grim, mordant |
| (adjective) (of coffee) without cream or sugar | - |
| (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
| blackened | (adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: black |
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| (adjective) darkened by smoke | - |
| blackguardly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: rascally, roguish, scoundrelly |
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| blackish | (adjective) of something that is somewhat black | - |
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| bladderlike | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladdery |
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| bladelike | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: ensiform, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| blank | (adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: clean, white |
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| (adjective) not charged with a bullet | - |
| (adjective) complete and absolute | Synonyms: utter |
| (adjective) without comprehension | - |
| blanket | (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
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| blanketed | (adjective) covered with (or as if with) a blanket | - |
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| bleak | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: cutting, raw |
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| (adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: black, dim |
| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark |
| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| blockaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, barricaded |
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| blockading | (adjective) blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors | - |
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| blocked | (adjective) closed to traffic | - |
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| (adjective) completely obstructed or closed off | Synonyms: plugged |
| blockheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| blockish | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blocky |
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| blocky | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blockish |
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| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
| bonelike | (adjective) resembling bone | - |
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| bonkers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| bookable | (adjective) subject to being reserved or booked | - |
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| booked | (adjective) reserved in advance | Synonyms: engaged, set-aside |
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| bookish | (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: studious |
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| bootlicking | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
| boskopoid | (adjective) belonging or relating to or resembling Boskop man | - |
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