| helical | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| hemimetabolic | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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| hemophilic | (adjective) relating to or having hemophilia | Synonyms: haemophilic |
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| heterocyclic | (adjective) containing a closed ring of atoms of which at least one is not a carbon atom | - |
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| heterometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolous |
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| holometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolous |
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| homocyclic | (adjective) containing a closed ring of atoms of the same kind especially carbon atoms | Synonyms: isocyclic |
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| homostylic | (adjective) (botany) having styles all of the same length | Synonyms: homostyled, homostylous |
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| hydraulic | (adjective) of or relating to the study of hydraulics | - |
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| (adjective) moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil) | - |
| hydrocephalic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by or evidencing hydrocephalus | - |
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| hydrophilic | (adjective) having a strong affinity for water; tending to dissolve in, mix with, or be wetted by water | - |
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| hyperbolic | (adjective) of or relating to a hyperbola | - |
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| (adjective) enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness | Synonyms: inflated |
| idyllic | (adjective) excellent and delightful in all respects | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene | - |
| illicit | (adjective) contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention | - |
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| (adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illegitimate, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful |
| imbecilic | (adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years | Synonyms: idiotic, imbecile |
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| implicated | (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: concerned |
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| implicational | (adjective) relating to or concerned with logical implication | - |
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| implicative | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: suggestive |
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| implicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: inexplicit |
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| (adjective) being without doubt or reserve | Synonyms: unquestioning |
| inapplicable | (adjective) not capable of being applied | Synonyms: unsuitable |
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| indelicate | (adjective) lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct | Synonyms: indecorous |
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| (adjective) verging on the indecent | - |
| (adjective) in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent | Synonyms: off-color, off-colour |
| inexplicable | (adjective) incapable of being explained or accounted for | Synonyms: incomprehensible |
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| inexplicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: implicit |
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| infelicitous | (adjective) not appropriate in application; defective | - |
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| (adjective) marked by or producing unhappiness | Synonyms: unhappy |
| isocyclic | (adjective) containing a closed ring of atoms of the same kind especially carbon atoms | Synonyms: homocyclic |
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| italic | (adjective) characterized by slanting characters | - |
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| katabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
| licenced | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licensed |
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| licensed | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licenced |
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| licentious | (adjective) lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained | - |
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| licit | (adjective) sanctioned by custom or morality especially sexual morality | - |
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| (adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, legitimate |
| licked | (adjective) having been got the better of | - |
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| lipophilic | (adjective) having an affinity for lipids | Synonyms: lipotropic |
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| macrencephalic | (adjective) having a large brain case | Synonyms: macrencephalous |
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| macrocephalic | (adjective) having an exceptionally large head and brain | Synonyms: macrocephalous |
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| malicious | (adjective) having the nature of or resulting from malice | - |
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| melancholic | (adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholy |
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| metabolic | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to metabolism | - |
| metallic | (adjective) containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal | Synonyms: metal |
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| microcephalic | (adjective) having an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain | Synonyms: microcephalous, nanocephalic |
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| monocarboxylic | (adjective) containing one carboxyl group | - |
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| monometallic | (adjective) containing one atom of metal in the molecule | - |
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| multiplicative | (adjective) tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree | - |
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| myelic | (adjective) of or relating to bone marrow cells | Synonyms: myeloid |
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| nanocephalic | (adjective) having an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain | Synonyms: microcephalic, microcephalous |
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| nonalcoholic | (adjective) characterized by the absence of alcohol | - |
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| noncyclic | (adjective) not cyclic | Synonyms: noncyclical |
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| (adjective) not having repeated cycles | - |
| noncyclical | (adjective) not cyclic | Synonyms: noncyclic |
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| nonmetallic | (adjective) not containing or resembling or characteristic of a metal | Synonyms: nonmetal |
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| nonpublic | (adjective) not invested with or related to prominent position or status etc. | - |
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| oleophilic | (adjective) having a strong affinity for oils rather than water | - |
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| overdelicate | (adjective) extremely delicate | - |
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| oversolicitous | (adjective) excessively solicitous | - |
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| oxalic | (adjective) of or derived from oxalic acid | - |
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| parabolic | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolical |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolical |
| parabolical | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolic |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolic |
| parhelic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a parhelion | Synonyms: parheliacal |
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| phallic | (adjective) relating to a phallus especially as an embodiment of generative power | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or being a phallus | Synonyms: priapic |
| philatelic | (adjective) of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists | Synonyms: philatelical |
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| philatelical | (adjective) of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists | Synonyms: philatelic |
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| postbiblical | (adjective) subsequent to biblical times | - |
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| postexilic | (adjective) of or relating to the period in Jewish history after 539 BC (after the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
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| psychedelic | (adjective) (of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair | - |
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| (adjective) having the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states | - |
| (adjective) producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings or altered states of awareness or sometimes states resembling psychosis | - |
| public | (adjective) not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole | - |
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| (adjective) affecting the people or community as a whole | - |
| publicised | (adjective) made known; especially made widely known | Synonyms: publicized |
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| publicized | (adjective) made known; especially made widely known | Synonyms: publicised |
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| pyrogallic | (adjective) of or relating to pyrogallol | - |
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| quadruplicate | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplex |
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| republican | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Republican Party | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government | - |
| rollicking | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, sportive |
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| scalic | (adjective) of or related to a musical scale | - |
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| semipublic | (adjective) having some of the features of public institution | - |
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| shambolic | (adjective) (British slang) disorderly or chaotic | - |
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| sibyllic | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| siliceous | (adjective) relating to or containing or resembling silica | Synonyms: silicious |
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| silicious | (adjective) relating to or containing or resembling silica | Synonyms: siliceous |
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| sliced | (adjective) (used of meat) cut into pieces for serving | - |
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| (adjective) prepared by cutting | Synonyms: chopped, shredded |
| slick | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek |
| (adjective) having only superficial plausibility | Synonyms: glib, pat |
| (adjective) made slick by e.g. ice or grease | - |
| (adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: facile, neat |
| slicked | (adjective) (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance | Synonyms: plastered |
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| solicitous | (adjective) showing hovering attentiveness | - |
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| (adjective) full of anxiety and concern | - |
| supplicant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicatory |
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| supplicatory | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicant |
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| surpliced | (adjective) wearing a surplice | - |
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| symbolic | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | Synonyms: symbolical |
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| (adjective) using symbolism | - |
| (adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, emblematical, symbolical |
| symbolical | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | Synonyms: symbolic |
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| (adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, emblematical, symbolic |
| systolic | (adjective) of or relating to a systole or happening during a systole | - |
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| technophilic | (adjective) of or relating to or showing technophilia | - |
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| umbilical | (adjective) relating to or resembling the umbilicus | - |
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| umbilicate | (adjective) depressed like a navel | - |
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| uncomplicated | (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: elementary, simple, unproblematic |
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| (adjective) lacking complexity | Synonyms: unsophisticated |
| unlicenced | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unaccredited, unlicensed |
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| unlicensed | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unaccredited, unlicenced |
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| unmalicious | (adjective) not malicious or spiteful | - |
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| unsolicited | (adjective) not requested or sought | Synonyms: unasked-for |
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| unsymbolic | (adjective) not standing for something else | Synonyms: nonrepresentative |
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| variolic | (adjective) relating to small pox | Synonyms: variolar, variolous |
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| vitriolic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, erosive, mordant |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent |
| vocalic | (adjective) being or containing or characterized by vowels | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or associated with or containing a vowel | - |