| beneficed | (adjective) having a benefice | - |
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| beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| beneficial | (adjective) promoting or enhancing well-being | Synonyms: good |
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| beneficiary | (adjective) having or arising from a benefice | - |
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| benevolent | (adjective) intending or showing kindness | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| (adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: freehearted |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| bicorned | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bigeneric | (adjective) resulting from a cross between species of different genera | - |
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| bilinear | (adjective) linear with respect to each of two variables or positions | - |
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| biogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the production of living organisms from other living organisms | - |
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| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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| blackened | (adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: black |
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| (adjective) darkened by smoke | - |
| blastogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to blastogenesis | - |
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| bloodstained | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: gory |
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| bone | (adjective) consisting of or made up of bone | - |
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| boned | (adjective) having bones as specified | - |
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| (adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: deboned |
| boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| boneless | (adjective) being without a bone or bones | - |
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| bonelike | (adjective) resembling bone | - |
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| boney | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: bony |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| borderline | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: marginal |
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| botonee | (adjective) (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm | Synonyms: botonnee |
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| botonnee | (adjective) (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm | Synonyms: botonee |
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| bovine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovid |
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| (adjective) dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox | - |
| breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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| browned | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: brown |
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| brunet | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunette |
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| brunette | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunet |
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| bubaline | (adjective) relating to or resembling a buffalo | - |
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| bullnecked | (adjective) having a thick short powerful neck | - |
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| burdened | (adjective) bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities | - |
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| (adjective) bearing a physically heavy weight or load | Synonyms: heavy-laden, loaded down |
| burned | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burnt |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burnt-out, burnt |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burnt |
| businesslike | (adjective) exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business | - |
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| (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: earnest |
| buteonine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
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| buttoned | (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: fastened |
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| bygone | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bypast, departed, foregone, gone |
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| cairned | (adjective) marked by cairns | - |
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| calcaneal | (adjective) relating to the heel bone or heel | - |
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| calycine | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycinal |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| canine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: laniary |
| canned | (adjective) sealed in a can or jar | Synonyms: tinned |
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| (adjective) recorded for broadcast | Synonyms: transcribed |
| caparisoned | (adjective) clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings) | - |
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| caprine | (adjective) being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats | - |
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| carmine | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| catacorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, cater-cornered, catercorner, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| catarrhine | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhinian |
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| catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| cauline | (adjective) especially of leaves; growing on a stem especially on the upper part of a stem | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, stemmed |
| cenogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to cenogenesis | - |
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| cervine | (adjective) relating to or resembling deer | - |
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| chagrined | (adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, embarrassed |
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| chained | (adjective) bound with chains | Synonyms: enchained, in chains |
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| charnel | (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| chilblained | (adjective) having chilblains | - |
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| cholinergic | (adjective) releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound | - |
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| cinematic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the cinema | - |
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| cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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| cisalpine | (adjective) on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps | Synonyms: ultramontane |
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| cismontane | (adjective) on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains | - |
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| clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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| cloisonne | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: champleve |
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| coarsened | (adjective) made coarse or crude by lack of skill | - |
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| cockney | (adjective) characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect | - |
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| coetaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coeval, contemporaneous |
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| collinear | (adjective) lying on the same line | - |
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| columned | (adjective) having or resembling columns; having columns of a specified kind (often used as a combining form) | - |
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| combined | (adjective) made or joined or united into one | - |
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| commissioned | (adjective) (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above | - |
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| (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, licenced, licensed |
| concerned | (adjective) feeling or showing worry or solicitude | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: interested |
| (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: implicated |
| conditioned | (adjective) established by conditioning or learning | Synonyms: learned |
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| (adjective) physically fit | Synonyms: in condition |
| conelike | (adjective) relating to or resembling a cone | Synonyms: cone-shaped, conic, conical |
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| confined | (adjective) not free to move about | - |
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| (adjective) not invading healthy tissue | - |
| (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: captive, imprisoned, jailed |
| congeneric | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congenerical, congenerous |
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| congenerical | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerous |
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| congenerous | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerical |
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| conjoined | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoint |
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| connected | (adjective) joined or linked together | - |
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| (adjective) plugged in | - |
| (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: affiliated, attached |
| (adjective) wired together to an alarm system | - |
| (adjective) stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer | Synonyms: machine-accessible |
| connective | (adjective) connecting or tending to connect | - |
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| consanguine | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineal | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineous | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin |
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| consentaneous | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentient, unanimous |
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| constrained | (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: forced, strained |
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| contained | (adjective) gotten under control | - |
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| contemporaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval |
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| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporary |
| continent | (adjective) having control over urination and defecation | - |
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| (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: celibate |
| continental | (adjective) being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a continent | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War | - |
| corneal | (adjective) of or related to the cornea | - |
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| corned | (adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: cured |
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| corneous | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: hornlike, horny |
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| cornered | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, trapped, treed |
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| coroneted | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: highborn, titled |
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| corvine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a crow | - |
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| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| crenelated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled |
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| crowned | (adjective) provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having an (artificial) crown on a tooth | - |
| (adjective) crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | Synonyms: laureled, laurelled |
| crystalline | (adjective) consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals | - |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent |
| (adjective) distinctly or sharply outlined | - |
| cuneal | (adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneiform, wedge-shaped |
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