| 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 |
| antiknocking | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknock |
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| aphakic | (adjective) of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia | - |
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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 |
| 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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| 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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| blackish | (adjective) of something that is somewhat black | - |
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| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| blockish | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blocky |
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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 |
| 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 |
| brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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| (adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| bumpkinly | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: hick, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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| choking | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: smothering, suffocating, suffocative |
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| clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| corking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| cytokinetic | (adjective) of or relating to the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following the division of the nucleus | - |
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| darkish | (adjective) slightly dark | - |
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| earthshaking | (adjective) loud enough to shake the very earth | - |
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| (adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world | Synonyms: world-shaking, world-shattering |
| enkindled | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: ignited, kindled |
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| freakish | (adjective) characteristic of a freak | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| (adjective) changeable | Synonyms: capricious |
| fucking | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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| hawkish | (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: militant, warlike |
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| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| hulking | (adjective) of great size and bulk | Synonyms: hulky |
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| hydrokinetic | (adjective) relating to fluids in motion or the forces that produce or affect such motion | - |
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| interlinking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlocking, interwoven |
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| interlocking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interwoven |
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| jerking | (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerky |
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| joking | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, jocular |
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| karyokinetic | (adjective) of or relating to the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis | - |
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| khaki | (adjective) of a yellowish brown color | - |
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| killable | (adjective) fit to kill, especially for food | - |
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| killing | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: sidesplitting |
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| kin | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous |
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| kinaesthetic | (adjective) of or relating to kinesthesis | Synonyms: kinesthetic |
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| kind | (adjective) having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior | - |
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| (adjective) tolerant and forgiving under provocation | Synonyms: tolerant |
| (adjective) agreeable, conducive to comfort | Synonyms: genial |
| kindhearted | (adjective) having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition | Synonyms: kind-hearted |
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| kindled | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: enkindled, ignited |
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| kindly | (adjective) pleasant and agreeable | - |
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| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| kindred | (adjective) related by blood or marriage | - |
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| (adjective) similar in quality or character | Synonyms: akin |
| kinesthetic | (adjective) of or relating to kinesthesis | Synonyms: kinaesthetic |
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| kinetic | (adjective) relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith | - |
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| (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energising, energizing |
| (adjective) characterized by motion | - |
| kinglike | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king | Synonyms: kingly |
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| kingly | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king | Synonyms: kinglike |
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| kinky | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: perverted |
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| (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, nappy |
| (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, offbeat, quirky, way-out |
| kitschy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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| kookie | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| lacking | (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: deficient, wanting |
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| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, missing, wanting |
| looking | (adjective) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | Synonyms: sounding |
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| mawkish | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| mocking | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, jeering, taunting |
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| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: quizzical, teasing |
| moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
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| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
| monkish | (adjective) befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial | - |
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| nonskid | (adjective) designed to reduce or prevent skidding | - |
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| nonspeaking | (adjective) not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines | Synonyms: walk-on |
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| overlooking | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: commanding, dominating |
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| painstaking | (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, scrupulous |
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| peckish | (adjective) somewhat hungry | - |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| pinkish | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pink |
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| poikilothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermous |
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| poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
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| prankish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, puckish, wicked |
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| provoking | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, agitative |
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| psychokinetic | (adjective) moving an object without apparent use of physical means | - |
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| puckish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, wicked |
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| racking | (adjective) causing great physical or mental suffering | Synonyms: wrenching |
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| rakish | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness | Synonyms: devil-may-care, raffish |
| ranking | (adjective) having a higher rank | Synonyms: higher-ranking, superior |
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| reeking | (adjective) giving off a strong unpleasant smell | - |
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| (adjective) wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears | Synonyms: watery |
| rollicking | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, sportive |
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| semiskilled | (adjective) possessing or requiring limited skills | - |
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| shocking | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful |
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| (adjective) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism | Synonyms: lurid |
| sickish | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick |
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| skilful | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful |
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| skilled | (adjective) having or showing or requiring special skill | - |
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| skillful | (adjective) done with delicacy and skill | Synonyms: nice |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skilful |
| skim | (adjective) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed | Synonyms: skimmed |
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| skimmed | (adjective) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed | Synonyms: skim |
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| skimpy | (adjective) containing little excess | Synonyms: lean |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) revealing the body | Synonyms: scanty |
| skinless | (adjective) having no skin | - |
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| skinned | (adjective) having skin of a specified kind | - |
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| skinny | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling skin | - |
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| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy |
| (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, tightly fitting |
| skint | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, bust, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| skintight | (adjective) so tight as to cling to the skin | Synonyms: skin-tight |
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| skirting | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: encircling |
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| skittish | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, spooky |
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