| accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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| adoring | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: doting, fond |
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| (adjective) showing adoration | Synonyms: worshipful |
| adulterine | (adjective) conceived in adultery | - |
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| alabastrine | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabaster |
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| alluring | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: beguiling, enticing, tempting |
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| alpestrine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: subalpine |
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| anoperineal | (adjective) relating to the anus and surrounding perineum | - |
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| anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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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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| aspiring | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspirant, wishful |
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| assuring | (adjective) giving confidence | - |
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| astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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| (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
| bantering | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: facetious, tongue-in-cheek |
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| bearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain | - |
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| bettering | (adjective) changing for the better | - |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| blaring | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blasting |
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| blistering | (adjective) very fast; capable of quick response and great speed | Synonyms: hot, red-hot |
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| (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| blustering | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blusterous, blustery |
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| boring | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| brinded | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brindle, brindled, tabby |
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| brindle | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindled, tabby |
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| brindled | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindle, tabby |
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| briny | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: brackish |
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| cantering | (adjective) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop | - |
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| caprine | (adjective) being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats | - |
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| carinal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carina | - |
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| carinate | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinated, keeled, ridged |
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| carinated | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, keeled, ridged |
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| caring | (adjective) feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others | - |
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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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| cheering | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: comforting, satisfying |
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| cheeseparing | (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: close, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
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| childbearing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for childbirth | - |
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| concurring | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concordant |
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| cooccurring | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, simultaneous |
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| corinthian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture | - |
| 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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| cringey | (adjective) embarrassing such that it would cause cringing | - |
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| cringing | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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| crinkled | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinkly | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinoid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the class Crinoidea | - |
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| cyprinid | (adjective) of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae | Synonyms: cyprinoid |
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| cyprinoid | (adjective) of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae | Synonyms: cyprinid |
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| daring | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: audacious, venturesome, venturous |
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| (adjective) radically new or original | Synonyms: avant-garde |
| despairing | (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: desperate |
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| devouring | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, esurient, greedy |
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| doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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| doctrinal | (adjective) relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine | - |
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| doddering | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddery, gaga, senile |
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| domineering | (adjective) tending to domineer | - |
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| drinkable | (adjective) suitable for drinking | Synonyms: potable |
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| eccrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell; important in regulating body temperature | - |
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| endearing | (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: adorable, lovely |
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| endocrinal | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrine |
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| endocrine | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrinal |
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| enduring | (adjective) patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble | Synonyms: long-suffering |
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| (adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: abiding, imperishable |
| erring | (adjective) capable of making an error | Synonyms: error-prone |
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| estuarine | (adjective) of or relating to or found in estuaries | Synonyms: estuarial |
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| exocrine | (adjective) of or relating to exocrine glands or their secretions | - |
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| extrinsic | (adjective) not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside | - |
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| faltering | (adjective) unsteady in speech or action | - |
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| farinaceous | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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| (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, starchlike |
| ferine | (adjective) wild and menacing | Synonyms: feral, savage |
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| fibrinous | (adjective) characterized by the presence of fibrin | - |
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| flaring | (adjective) streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air | Synonyms: aflare |
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| flattering | (adjective) showing or representing to advantage | - |
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| (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: adulatory |
| flickering | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: aflicker |
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| flowering | (adjective) when a plant is in a state of possessing one or multiple flowers and/or blooms | - |
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| forbearing | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: longanimous |
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| fringed | (adjective) having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips | - |
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| (adjective) surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination | - |
| (adjective) having edges irregularly and finely slashed | Synonyms: laciniate |
| fringy | (adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: marginal |
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| genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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| glaring | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glary |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, gross, rank |
| glistering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glittering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glowering | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| hearing | (adjective) able to perceive sound | - |
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| hindering | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, impeding, obstructive |
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| imploring | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: beseeching, pleading |
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| inpouring | (adjective) pouring inward | - |
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| inquiring | (adjective) given to inquiry | - |
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| inspiring | (adjective) stimulating or exalting to the spirit | - |
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| interfering | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| intrauterine | (adjective) within the womb | - |
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| intrinsic | (adjective) belonging to a thing by its very nature | Synonyms: intrinsical |
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| (adjective) situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts | - |
| intrinsical | (adjective) belonging to a thing by its very nature | Synonyms: intrinsic |
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| jarring | (adjective) making or causing a harsh and irritating sound | - |
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| jeering | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, mocking, taunting |
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| jittering | (adjective) undergoing small rapid variations | - |
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| laboring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, labouring, toiling |
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| labouring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, laboring, toiling |
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| labyrinthian | (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthine, mazy |
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| labyrinthine | (adjective) relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthian, mazy |
| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous |
| lacustrine | (adjective) of or relating to or living near lakes | - |
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| leering | (adjective) showing sly or knowing malice in a glance | - |
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| (adjective) (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious | - |