| anterior | (adjective) of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body | - |
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| (adjective) earlier in time | Synonyms: prior |
| anterograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma | - |
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| bantering | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: facetious, tongue-in-cheek |
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| cantering | (adjective) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop | - |
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| center | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: centre |
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| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: centre, halfway, middle, midway |
| centered | (adjective) being or placed in the center | Synonyms: centred |
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| conterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, coterminous |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: contiguous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| counter | (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: antagonistic |
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| counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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| counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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| counterfeit | (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: imitative |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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| counterpoised | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterbalanced |
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| counterproductive | (adjective) tending to hinder the achievement of a goal | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| countertenor | (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: alto |
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| counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| disinterested | (adjective) unaffected by self-interest | - |
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| enteral | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteric |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteric, intestinal |
| enteric | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteral |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteral, intestinal |
| enterprising | (adjective) marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects | - |
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| entertained | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, diverted |
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| entertaining | (adjective) agreeably diverting | - |
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| interactional | (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactive |
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| interactive | (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more) | Synonyms: synergistic |
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| (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactional |
| interbred | (adjective) bred of closely related parents | - |
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| intercalary | (adjective) having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: | - |
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| intercellular | (adjective) located between cells | - |
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| interchangeable | (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, similar, standardised, standardized |
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| (adjective) (mathematics, logic) such that the arguments or roles can be interchanged | - |
| interchurch | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interdenominational |
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| intercollegiate | (adjective) used of competition between colleges or universities | - |
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| interconnected | (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated, unified |
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| (adjective) reciprocally connected | Synonyms: interrelated |
| intercontinental | (adjective) extending or taking place between or among continents | - |
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| intercostal | (adjective) located or occurring between the ribs | - |
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| intercrossed | (adjective) produced by crossbreeding | Synonyms: hybrid |
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| interdenominational | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interchurch |
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| interdepartmental | (adjective) between or among departments | - |
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| interdependent | (adjective) mutually dependent | Synonyms: mutualist, mutually beneficial |
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| interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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| interested | (adjective) having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: concerned |
| interesting | (adjective) arousing or holding the attention | - |
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| interfacial | (adjective) relating to or situated at an interface | - |
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| interfaith | (adjective) involving persons of different religious faiths | - |
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| interfering | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| intergalactic | (adjective) between or among galaxies | - |
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| interim | (adjective) serving during an intermediate interval of time | - |
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| interior | (adjective) situated within or suitable for inside a building | - |
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| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, internal, national |
| (adjective) of or coming from the middle of a region or country | Synonyms: midland, upcountry |
| (adjective) inside and toward a center | - |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: inner, internal |
| interlaced | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, latticed, latticelike |
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| interlacing | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlinking, interlocking, interwoven |
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| interlineal | (adjective) written between lines of text | Synonyms: interlinear |
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| interlinear | (adjective) written between lines of text | Synonyms: interlineal |
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| interlinking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlocking, interwoven |
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| interlobular | (adjective) between lobes or lobules | - |
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| interlocking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interwoven |
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| interlocutory | (adjective) consisting of dialogue | - |
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| intermediate | (adjective) lying between two extremes in time or space or state | - |
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| (adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: average, medium |
| intermeshed | (adjective) (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting | Synonyms: engaged, meshed |
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| (adjective) caught as if in a mesh | Synonyms: enmeshed |
| interminable | (adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: endless, eternal |
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| intermittent | (adjective) stopping and starting at irregular intervals | - |
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| intermolecular | (adjective) existing or acting between molecules | - |
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| intermural | (adjective) between two or more institutions etc | - |
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| internal | (adjective) happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface | - |
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| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, interior, national |
| (adjective) occurring within an institution or community | Synonyms: intragroup |
| (adjective) innermost or essential | Synonyms: inner, intimate |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: inner, interior |
| international | (adjective) concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations | - |
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| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: external, outside |
| internationalist | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalistic |
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| internationalistic | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalist |
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| internecine | (adjective) characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides | - |
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| (adjective) (of conflict) within a group or organization | - |
| interoceptive | (adjective) of or relating to interoception | - |
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| interoperable | (adjective) able to exchange and use information | - |
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| interpersonal | (adjective) occurring among or involving several people | - |
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| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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| interpretable | (adjective) capable of being understood | Synonyms: explainable |
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| interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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| interpreted | (adjective) understood in a certain way; made sense of | Synonyms: taken |
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| interpretive | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretative |
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| interracial | (adjective) involving or composed of different races | Synonyms: mixed |
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| (adjective) between races | - |
| interred | (adjective) placed in a grave | Synonyms: buried, inhumed |
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| interrelated | (adjective) reciprocally connected | Synonyms: interconnected |
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| interrogative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogatory |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood | - |
| interrogatory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogative |
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| interrupted | (adjective) intermittently stopping and starting | Synonyms: fitful, off-and-on |
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| (adjective) discontinued temporarily | - |
| interscholastic | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interschool |
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| interschool | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interscholastic |
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| intersectant | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersecting |
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| intersecting | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersectant |
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| intersexual | (adjective) having sexual characteristics intermediate between those of male and female | - |
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| (adjective) existing or occurring between the sexes | - |
| interspecies | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecific |
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| interspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecies |
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| interstate | (adjective) involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States | - |
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| interstellar | (adjective) between or among stars | - |
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| interstitial | (adjective) of or relating to interstices | - |
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| intertidal | (adjective) of or relating to the littoral area above the low-tide mark | - |
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| intertribal | (adjective) between or among tribes | - |
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| intervening | (adjective) occurring or falling between events or points in time | - |
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| intervertebral | (adjective) pertaining to the space between two vertebrae | - |
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| interwoven | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interlocking |
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| mesenteric | (adjective) of or relating to or located in a mesentery | - |
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