| amentaceous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentiferous |
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| amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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| ametabolic | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolous |
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| (adjective) undergoing no (or only slight) metamorphosis | - |
| ametabolous | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolic |
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| ametropic | (adjective) of or relating to an abnormal condition of the eye in which visual images are not in focus on the retina | - |
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| amino | (adjective) pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia | Synonyms: aminic |
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| amitotic | (adjective) pertaining to a simple method of cell division | - |
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| ammino | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of an ammine (an inorganic coordination compound of ammonia and a metallic salt) | - |
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| ammoniac | (adjective) pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia | Synonyms: ammoniacal |
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| ammoniacal | (adjective) pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia | Synonyms: ammoniac |
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| ammoniated | (adjective) combined or treated with ammonia | - |
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| ammonitic | (adjective) of or related to an order of fossil cephalopods | - |
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| amnionic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amniotic |
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| amniotic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amnionic |
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| amoeban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amebous, amoebic, amoebous |
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| amoebic | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebous |
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| amoeboid | (adjective) like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape) | Synonyms: ameboid |
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| amoebous | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebic |
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| amok | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amuck, berserk |
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| amoristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to romantic love | - |
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| amorous | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amative |
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| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, romantic |
| amorphous | (adjective) lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies | Synonyms: unstructured |
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| (adjective) without real or apparent crystalline form | Synonyms: uncrystallised, uncrystallized |
| (adjective) unclear because vague or badly organized | - |
| (adjective) having no definite form or distinct shape | Synonyms: formless, shapeless |
| (adjective) (of a group of people or an organization) unorganized or unfocused | - |
| amort | (adjective) utterly cast down | - |
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| amphibiotic | (adjective) having an aquatic early or larval form and a terrestrial adult form | Synonyms: semiaquatic |
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| amphibious | (adjective) operating or living on land and in water | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibian |
| amphiprostylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostyle, amphistylar, porticoed |
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| amphiprostyle | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphistylar, porticoed |
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| amphiprotic | (adjective) having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either | Synonyms: amphoteric |
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| amphitropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk | - |
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| amphoric | (adjective) the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle | - |
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| amphoteric | (adjective) having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either | Synonyms: amphiprotic |
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| amygdaliform | (adjective) shaped like an almond | Synonyms: almond-shaped, amygdaloid, amygdaloidal |
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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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| anabiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of anabiosis | - |
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| anabolic | (adjective) characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism | - |
| anachronic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronistic, anachronous |
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| anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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| anachronous | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronistic |
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| anacoluthic | (adjective) of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons | - |
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| anadromous | (adjective) migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn | - |
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| anaerobic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobiotic |
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| (adjective) not aerobic | - |
| anaerobiotic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobic |
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| anagogic | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogical |
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| anagogical | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogic |
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| analog | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analogue, linear |
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| analogical | (adjective) expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy | - |
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| analogous | (adjective) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin | - |
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| (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: correspondent |
| analogue | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analog, linear |
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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 | - |
| anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| anasarcous | (adjective) characterized by or affected by dropsy | - |
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| 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 |
| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| anchoritic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
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| andantino | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately fast | - |
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| androgenetic | (adjective) of or related to androgenesis | Synonyms: androgenous |
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| androgenic | (adjective) of or related to the male hormone androgen | - |
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| androgenous | (adjective) of or related to androgenesis | Synonyms: androgenetic |
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| androgynous | (adjective) having both male and female characteristics | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or exhibiting both female and male sex organs but with a predominantly female appearance | - |
| anecdotal | (adjective) having the character of an anecdote | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotic, anecdotical |
| anecdotic | (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotal, anecdotical |
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| anecdotical | (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotal, anecdotic |
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| anechoic | (adjective) not having or producing echoes; sound-absorbent | - |
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| 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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| anencephalous | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalic |
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| aneroid | (adjective) containing no liquid or actuated without the use of liquid | - |
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| anestrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anoestrous |
| aneuploid | (adjective) having a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number | - |
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| anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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| anginose | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginous |
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| anginous | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginose |
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| angiocarpic | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpous |
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| angiocarpous | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpic |
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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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| anhydrous | (adjective) without water; especially without water of crystallization | - |
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| anionic | (adjective) of or relating to anions | - |
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| aniseikonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the visual defect aniseikonia | - |
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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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| anisotropic | (adjective) not invariant with respect to direction | - |
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| ankylotic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the abnormality ankylosis | - |
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| annexational | (adjective) relating to annexation | - |
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| announced | (adjective) declared publicly; made widely known | Synonyms: proclaimed |
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| annoyed | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: harassed, harried, pestered, vexed |
| annoying | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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