| acarpous | (adjective) producing no fruit | - |
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| acrocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem | - |
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| adipose | (adjective) composed of animal fat | - |
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| amphitropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk | - |
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| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| angiocarpous | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpic |
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| anthropocentric | (adjective) human-centered | - |
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| anthropogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings | Synonyms: anthropogenic |
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| anthropogenic | (adjective) of or relating to the study of the origins and development of human beings | Synonyms: anthropogenetic |
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| anthropoid | (adjective) resembling human beings | Synonyms: manlike |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoidal, apelike |
| anthropoidal | (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, apelike |
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| anthropological | (adjective) of or concerned with the science of anthropology | - |
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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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| anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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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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| antipodal | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodean |
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| antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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| antipollution | (adjective) intended to reduce pollution | - |
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| apocalyptic | (adjective) of or relating to an apocalypse | - |
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| (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptical, revelatory |
| apocalyptical | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, revelatory |
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| apocarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses | - |
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| apochromatic | (adjective) corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberration | - |
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| apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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| apocryphal | (adjective) being of questionable authenticity | - |
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| apocynaceous | (adjective) of or relating to tropical plants of the family Apocynaceae | - |
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| apodal | (adjective) (of snakes and eels) naturally footless | Synonyms: apodous |
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| apodeictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodictic |
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| apodictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodeictic |
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| apodous | (adjective) (of snakes and eels) naturally footless | Synonyms: apodal |
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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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| apogean | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an apogee | - |
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| apolitical | (adjective) politically neutral | Synonyms: unpolitical |
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| apologetic | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: excusatory |
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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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| aponeurotic | (adjective) of or relating to an aponeurosis | - |
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| apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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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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| apoplectic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy | - |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| apoplectoid | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectiform |
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| aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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| apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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| apostolic | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolical |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolical, papal, pontifical |
| apostolical | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolic |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, papal, pontifical |
| apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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| apothecial | (adjective) of or relating to the apothecium of some lichens and fungi | - |
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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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| apotropaic | (adjective) having the power to prevent evil or bad luck | - |
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| appointed | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointive |
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| (adjective) selected for a job | - |
| (adjective) provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind) | - |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed |
| appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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| (adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
| apportionable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, allocatable |
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| apportioned | (adjective) given out in portions | Synonyms: dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out |
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| apposable | (adjective) capable of being placed opposite to something | Synonyms: opposable |
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| apposite | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apt, pertinent |
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| appositional | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositive |
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| appositive | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositional |
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| apropos | (adjective) of an appropriate or pertinent nature | - |
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| archesporial | (adjective) of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores | - |
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| arthropodal | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodan, arthropodous |
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| arthropodan | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodous |
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| arthropodous | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodan |
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| arthrosporic | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporous |
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| arthrosporous | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporic |
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| ascocarpous | (adjective) of or relating to ascocarps | - |
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| ascosporic | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporous |
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| ascosporous | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporic |
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| basidiosporous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia | - |
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| bespoke | (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoken, made-to-order, tailor-made, tailored |
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| bespoken | (adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: betrothed, engaged |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoke, made-to-order, tailor-made, tailored |
| bibliopolic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliopoles | - |
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| bipolar | (adjective) having two poles | - |
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| (adjective) of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to manic depressive illness | - |
| blastoporal | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporic |
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| blastoporic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporal |
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| boskopoid | (adjective) belonging or relating to or resembling Boskop man | - |
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| brachiopod | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopodous |
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| brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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| branchiopod | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous |
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| branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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| branchiopodous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodan |
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| campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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| carpophagous | (adjective) feeding on fruit | Synonyms: fruit-eating |
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| carposporic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carpospore | - |
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| carposporous | (adjective) having carpospores | - |
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| cephalopod | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda | Synonyms: cephalopodan |
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| cephalopodan | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda | Synonyms: cephalopod |
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| circumpolar | (adjective) located or found throughout a polar region | - |
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| (adjective) (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel | - |
| composed | (adjective) serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress | - |
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| composite | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of separate interconnected parts | - |
| compositional | (adjective) arranging or grouping | - |
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| compound | (adjective) composed of more than one part | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts | - |
| (adjective) composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony | Synonyms: colonial |
| compounded | (adjective) combined into or constituting a chemical compound | - |
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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 |