| exculpatory | (adjective) clearing of guilt or blame | - |
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| excusatory | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: apologetic |
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| exemplary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) being or serving as an illustration of a type | Synonyms: emblematic, typic |
| (adjective) worthy of imitation | Synonyms: model |
| exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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| expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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| expiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, propitiatory |
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| expiratory | (adjective) of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration | - |
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| explanatory | (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear | - |
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| exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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| exploratory | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: explorative |
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| expository | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expositive |
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| extemporary | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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| (adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
| (adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
| extrasensory | (adjective) seemingly outside normal sensory channels | Synonyms: paranormal |
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| facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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| feathery | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, plumy |
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| (adjective) characterized by a covering of feathers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: featherlike |
| feudatory | (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord | - |
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| (adjective) owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign | - |
| fiduciary | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another) | Synonyms: fiducial |
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| fiery | (adjective) like or suggestive of fire | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) passionate or quick-tempered | Synonyms: flaming |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| floury | (adjective) resembling flour in fine powdery texture | - |
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| flowery | (adjective) of or relating to or suggestive of flowers | - |
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| (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: ornate |
| formulary | (adjective) of or relating to or of the nature of a formula | - |
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| fragmentary | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmental |
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| funerary | (adjective) of or for or relating to a funeral | - |
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| furry | (adjective) covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs | Synonyms: furred |
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| genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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| geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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| gingery | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: ginger |
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| (adjective) having a taste like that of ginger | - |
| glary | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring |
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| glimmery | (adjective) shining softly and intermittently | - |
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| glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glossopharyngeal | (adjective) pertaining to the tongue and throat | - |
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| gory | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: bloodstained |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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| gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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| gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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| hairy | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: haired, hirsute |
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| (adjective) hazardous and frightening | - |
| hallucinatory | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination | - |
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| hebdomadary | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadal, weekly |
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| hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
| hoary | (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: canescent |
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| (adjective) ancient | Synonyms: rusty |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, white-haired |
| honorary | (adjective) given as an honor without the normal duties | - |
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| horary | (adjective) relating to the hours | - |
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| hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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| hungry | (adjective) feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food | - |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | Synonyms: athirst, thirsty |
| hurrying | (adjective) moving with great haste | Synonyms: scurrying |
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| illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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| illusory | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusive |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| incendiary | (adjective) involving deliberate burning of property | - |
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| (adjective) capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily | - |
| (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
| incriminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating |
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| inculpatory | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpative |
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| indicatory | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
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| inflammatory | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| (adjective) characterized or caused by inflammation | - |
| inflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation | - |
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| informatory | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informative |
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| inframaxillary | (adjective) relating to the lower jaw | Synonyms: mandibular |
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| ingratiatory | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, insinuating |
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| (adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: coaxing |
| inhibitory | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: repressing, repressive |
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| initiatory | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiative, maiden |
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| inquisitory | (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: probing, searching |
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| insanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: unhealthful, unsanitary |
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| inspiratory | (adjective) pertaining to the drawing in phase of respiration | - |
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| insurrectionary | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectional |
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| integumentary | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumental |
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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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| interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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| interlocutory | (adjective) consisting of dialogue | - |
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| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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| interrogatory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogative |
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| intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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| introductory | (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: basic |
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| (adjective) serving to open or begin | - |
| (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: prefatorial, prefatory |
| investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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| invitatory | (adjective) conveying an invitation | - |
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| involuntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: nonvoluntary, unvoluntary |
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| (adjective) controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control | - |
| jittery | (adjective) characterized by jerky movements | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| karyokinetic | (adjective) of or relating to the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis | - |
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| lachrymal | (adjective) of or relating to tears | Synonyms: lacrimal |
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| (adjective) relating to or located near the organ that produces tears | Synonyms: lacrimal |
| lachrymatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lacrimatory |
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| lachrymose | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, tearful, weeping |
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| lacrimatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lachrymatory |
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| laniary | (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: canine |
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| lapidary | (adjective) of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them | - |
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| laryngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or situated in the larynx | - |
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| laryngopharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to the larynx and pharynx | - |
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| lathery | (adjective) resembling lather or covered with lather | Synonyms: sudsy |
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| laudatory | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: praiseful, praising |
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| leathery | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike |
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| leery | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary |
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| legendary | (adjective) so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend | - |
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| (adjective) celebrated in fable or legend | Synonyms: fabled |
| levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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| levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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| literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
| livery | (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, liverish |
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| mammary | (adjective) of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female | - |
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| mandatory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: compulsory, required |
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| maxillary | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw | - |
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| mediatory | (adjective) of or related to or directed toward mediation | - |
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| medullary | (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part | - |
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| (adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata | - |