| ampullary | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullar |
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| amuck | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, berserk |
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| amused | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: diverted, entertained |
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| amusing | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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| (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusive, diverting |
| amusive | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, diverting |
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| amygdaliform | (adjective) shaped like an almond | Synonyms: almond-shaped, amygdaloid, amygdaloidal |
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| amygdaline | (adjective) related to or resembling an almond | - |
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| amygdaloid | (adjective) shaped like an almond | Synonyms: almond-shaped, amygdaliform, amygdaloidal |
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| amygdaloidal | (adjective) shaped like an almond | Synonyms: almond-shaped, amygdaliform, amygdaloid |
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| amylaceous | (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous, starchlike |
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| amyloid | (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloidal, farinaceous, starchlike |
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| amyloidal | (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, farinaceous, starchlike |
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| amylolytic | (adjective) of or related to the process of amylolysis | - |
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| anadromous | (adjective) migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn | - |
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| anaemic | (adjective) relating to anemia or suffering from anemia | Synonyms: anemic |
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| (adjective) lacking vigor or energy | Synonyms: anemic |
| anagrammatic | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatical |
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| anagrammatical | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatic |
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| anamnestic | (adjective) of or relating to anamnesis; aiding the memory | - |
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| anamorphic | (adjective) pertaining to a kind of distorting optical system | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to gradual evolution from one type of organism to another | - |
| anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
| anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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| anatomic | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomical |
| anatomical | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomic |
| anemic | (adjective) relating to anemia or suffering from anemia | Synonyms: anaemic |
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| (adjective) lacking vigor or energy | Synonyms: anaemic |
| anemographic | (adjective) pertaining to the recording of wind measurements | - |
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| anemometric | (adjective) pertaining to the measurement of wind speed and direction | Synonyms: anemometrical |
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| anemometrical | (adjective) pertaining to the measurement of wind speed and direction | Synonyms: anemometric |
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| anemophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind | - |
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| aneurismal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismatic, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurismatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurysmal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurysmatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmal |
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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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| animal | (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: carnal, fleshly, sensual |
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| animalistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animalism | - |
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| animate | (adjective) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings | - |
| (adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: sentient |
| animated | (adjective) having life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: alive |
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| (adjective) made to appear to move as living creatures do | - |
| animating | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: enlivening |
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| animatistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animatism | - |
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| animist | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animistic |
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| animistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animist |
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| anisogametic | (adjective) relating to either of a pair of dissimilar (anisogamic) gametes combining in sexual reproduction | - |
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| anisogamic | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamous |
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| anisogamous | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamic |
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| anisometric | (adjective) having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: unsymmetrical |
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| anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anomalous | (adjective) deviating from the general or common order or type | - |
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| anomic | (adjective) socially disoriented | Synonyms: alienated, disoriented |
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| anonymous | (adjective) having no known name or identity or known source | Synonyms: anon. |
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| (adjective) not known or lacking marked individuality | - |
| anosmatic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmic |
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| anosmic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmatic |
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| (adjective) having impaired sense of smell | - |
| anoxemic | (adjective) relating to or marked by abnormally little oxygen in arterial blood | - |
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| antebellum | (adjective) belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War | - |
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| antemeridian | (adjective) before noon | - |
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| antemortem | (adjective) preceding death | - |
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| antepartum | (adjective) occurring or existing before birth | Synonyms: antenatal, prenatal |
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| antepenultimate | (adjective) third from last | - |
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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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| anthropometric | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometrical |
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| anthropometrical | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometric |
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| anthropomorphic | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphous, humanlike |
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| anthropomorphous | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphic, humanlike |
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| anticlimactic | (adjective) coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style | Synonyms: anticlimactical |
| anticlimactical | (adjective) of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style | Synonyms: anticlimactic |
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| antidromic | (adjective) conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal | - |
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| antiferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to antiferromagnetism | - |
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| antimagnetic | (adjective) impervious to the effects of a magnetic field; resistant to magnetization | - |
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| antimicrobial | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobic |
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| antimicrobic | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobial |
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| antimonial | (adjective) containing antimony | - |
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| antimonic | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonious |
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| antimonious | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonic |
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| antimonopoly | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antitrust |
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| antinomian | (adjective) relating to or influenced by antinomianism | - |
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| antisemitic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by anti-Semitism; hating Jews | Synonyms: anti-semitic |
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| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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| antitumor | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumour |
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| antitumour | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumor |
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| antonymous | (adjective) of words: having opposite meanings | - |
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| apochromatic | (adjective) corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberration | - |
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| apogametic | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogamic, apogamous |
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| apogamic | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamous |
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| apogamous | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamic |
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| apomictic | (adjective) of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis | Synonyms: apomictical |
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| (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, agamous, parthenogenetic |
| apomictical | (adjective) of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis | Synonyms: apomictic |
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| apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| apothegmatic | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatical |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, epigrammatic |
| apothegmatical | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatic |
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| approximate | (adjective) located close together | Synonyms: close together |
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| (adjective) very close in resemblance | Synonyms: near |
| (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximative, rough |
| approximative | (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, rough |
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| arboriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arciform | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arcuate, bowed |
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| argumentative | (adjective) given to or characterized by argument | - |
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| arithmetic | (adjective) relating to or involving arithmetic | Synonyms: arithmetical |
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| arithmetical | (adjective) relating to or involving arithmetic | Synonyms: arithmetic |
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| armed | (adjective) (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms | - |
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| (adjective) (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns | - |
| (adjective) having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination | - |
| armillary | (adjective) of or relating to bracelets | - |
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