| acephalous | (adjective) lacking a head or a clearly defined head | - |
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| acidophilic | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilous, aciduric |
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| acidophilous | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, aciduric |
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| acrophobic | (adjective) suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places | - |
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| actinomorphic | (adjective) capable of division into symmetrical halves by any longitudinal plane passing through the axis | Synonyms: actinomorphous |
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| actinomorphous | (adjective) capable of division into symmetrical halves by any longitudinal plane passing through the axis | Synonyms: actinomorphic |
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| adrenocorticotrophic | (adjective) stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: adrenocorticotropic |
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| aerophilatelic | (adjective) of or relating to airmail stamps | - |
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| aerophilic | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerobic, aerophilous |
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| aerophilous | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerobic, aerophilic |
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| agoraphobic | (adjective) suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places | - |
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| agraphic | (adjective) relating to or having agraphia | - |
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| algophobic | (adjective) suffering from algophobia; abnormally afraid of pain | - |
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| aliphatic | (adjective) having carbon atoms linked in open chains | - |
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| allelomorphic | (adjective) of or relating to alleles | Synonyms: allelic |
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| allographic | (adjective) of or relating to an allograph | - |
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| allomorphic | (adjective) pertaining to allomorphs | - |
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| allophonic | (adjective) pertaining to allophones | - |
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| alpha | (adjective) early testing stage of a software or hardware product | - |
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| (adjective) first in order of importance | - |
| alphabetic | (adjective) arranged in order according to the alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetical |
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| (adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetical |
| alphabetical | (adjective) arranged in order according to the alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetic |
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| (adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetic |
| alphabetised | (adjective) having been put in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetized |
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| alphabetized | (adjective) having been put in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetised |
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| alphameric | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphamerical, alphanumeric, alphanumerical |
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| alphamerical | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphameric, alphanumeric, alphanumerical |
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| alphanumeric | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphameric, alphamerical, alphanumerical |
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| alphanumerical | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphameric, alphamerical, alphanumeric |
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| 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 | - |
| amphibian | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibious |
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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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| amphistylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, porticoed |
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| (adjective) having columns either at both ends or at both sides | - |
| amphitheatric | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatrical |
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| amphitheatrical | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatric |
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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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| anaglyphic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphical, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyphical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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| analphabetic | (adjective) not alphabetic | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic | - |
| (adjective) having little acquaintance with writing | Synonyms: unlettered |
| 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 | - |
| anaphasic | (adjective) of or related to the stage of mitosis known as anaphase | - |
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| anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| anaphylactic | (adjective) related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis | - |
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| anemographic | (adjective) pertaining to the recording of wind measurements | - |
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| anemophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind | - |
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| anencephalic | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalous |
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| anencephalous | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalic |
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| anopheline | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of malaria mosquitoes | - |
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| anthophagous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophilous |
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| anthophilous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophagous |
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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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| anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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| antiphlogistic | (adjective) counteracting inflammation | - |
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| antiphonal | (adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: responsive |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonary |
| antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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| aphaeretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: apheretic |
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| aphakic | (adjective) of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia | - |
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| aphanitic | (adjective) of or relating to aphanite | - |
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| aphasic | (adjective) related to or affected by aphasia | - |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of a brain lesion | - |
| apheretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: aphaeretic |
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| aphetic | (adjective) produced by aphesis | - |
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| aphonic | (adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
| aphotic | (adjective) lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight | - |
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| aphrodisiac | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiacal, sexy |
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| aphrodisiacal | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, sexy |
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| aphyllous | (adjective) devoid of leaves | - |
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| apocryphal | (adjective) being of questionable authenticity | - |
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| apophatic | (adjective) of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable') | - |
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| apophyseal | (adjective) of or relating to an apophysis | - |
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| apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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| aquaphobic | (adjective) abnormally afraid of water | Synonyms: hydrophobic |
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| asphaltic | (adjective) containing asphalt | - |
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| aspheric | (adjective) varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape | Synonyms: aspherical |
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| aspherical | (adjective) varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape | Synonyms: aspheric |
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| asphyxiated | (adjective) in a state of asphyxia | - |
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| asphyxiating | (adjective) tending to deprive of oxygen | - |
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| astrophysical | (adjective) of or concerned with astrophysics | - |
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| atmospheric | (adjective) relating to or located in the atmosphere | Synonyms: atmospherical |
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| atmospherical | (adjective) relating to or located in the atmosphere | Synonyms: atmospheric |
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| atrophic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by atrophy | - |
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| atrophied | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: diminished, wasted |
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| autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
| autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
| autographed | (adjective) bearing an autograph | - |
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| autographic | (adjective) written in the author's own handwriting | - |
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| autophytic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autotrophic |
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| autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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| autotrophic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autophytic |
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| bacteriophagic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagous |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| barographic | (adjective) relating to or registered by a barograph | - |
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| basophilic | (adjective) staining readily with basic dyes | - |
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