| megakaryocytic | (adjective) of or pertaining to large bone marrow cells | - |
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| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| merry | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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| (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, festive, gay |
| (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, mirthful |
| microcrystalline | (adjective) containing crystals that are visible only under a microscope | - |
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| migratory | (adjective) used of animals that move seasonally | - |
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| (adjective) habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work | Synonyms: migrant |
| military | (adjective) associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare | - |
| millenary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of 1000 | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium | - |
| minatory | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| miry | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| missionary | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missional |
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| mitigatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, palliative |
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| momentary | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous |
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| monetary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: pecuniary |
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| monitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, warning |
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| mortuary | (adjective) of or relating to a funeral | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of death | - |
| multistory | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistorey, multistoried |
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| nary | (adjective) (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a' | - |
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| nasopharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or located near the nasopharynx | - |
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| necessary | (adjective) absolutely essential | - |
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| (adjective) unavoidably determined by prior circumstances | - |
| nonarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: unarbitrary |
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| noncrystalline | (adjective) not crystalline | - |
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| nonexploratory | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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| nonhairy | (adjective) without hair | - |
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| nonhereditary | (adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nontransmissible |
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| noninflammatory | (adjective) not inflammatory | - |
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| nonliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: unliterary |
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| nonmandatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonobligatory |
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| nonmigratory | (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: resident |
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| nonmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: unmilitary |
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| nonobligatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonmandatory |
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| nonoscillatory | (adjective) not having periodic vibrations | - |
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| nonproprietary | (adjective) not protected by trademark or patent or copyright | - |
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| nonslippery | (adjective) not slippery; not likely to slip or skid | - |
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| nonvoluntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: involuntary, unvoluntary |
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| nugatory | (adjective) of no real value | - |
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| nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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| obligatory | (adjective) morally or legally constraining or binding | - |
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| (adjective) required by obligation or compulsion or convention | - |
| olfactory | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactive |
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| ordinary | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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| (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
| ornery | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, crotchety |
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| oropharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or located near the oropharynx | - |
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| oscillatory | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillating |
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| palpatory | (adjective) relating to or involving palpation | - |
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| paltry | (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: measly, miserable |
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| (adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: negligible, trifling |
| papery | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: chartaceous, paperlike |
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| (adjective) thin and paperlike | - |
| papillary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillose |
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| paramilitary | (adjective) of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like or to assist a military unit | - |
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| parliamentary | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a parliament | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament | - |
| (adjective) in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly | - |
| participatory | (adjective) affording the opportunity for individual participation | - |
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| pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: monetary |
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| penitentiary | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitential |
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| (adjective) used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers | - |
| peppery | (adjective) having the piquant burning taste of peppers | - |
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| peremptory | (adjective) putting an end to all debate or action | - |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial |
| (adjective) not allowing contradiction or refusal | - |
| perfunctory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, superficial |
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| (adjective) done or produced as a formality only | Synonyms: pro forma |
| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| pharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to the throat | - |
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| pilary | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilose, pilous |
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| piscatory | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatorial |
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| pituitary | (adjective) of or relating to the pituitary gland | - |
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| placatory | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placative |
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| planetary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: terrestrial |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, world-wide, world, worldwide |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, wandering |
| plenary | (adjective) full in all respects | - |
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| polycrystalline | (adjective) composed of aggregates of crystals | - |
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| powdery | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained |
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| (adjective) as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder | - |
| precatory | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precative |
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| precautionary | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautional |
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| precursory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: premonitory |
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| predatory | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predaceous, predacious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: marauding, raiding |
| prefatory | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatorial |
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| preliminary | (adjective) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important | - |
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| premonitory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: precursory |
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| preparatory | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, propaedeutic |
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| primary | (adjective) of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, elementary |
| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, master, principal |
| (adjective) not derived from or reducible to something else; basic | - |
| probationary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: provisional, provisionary, tentative |
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| probatory | (adjective) tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | Synonyms: probative |
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| procaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: prokaryotic |
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| profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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| prohibitory | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitive |
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| proinflammatory | (adjective) tending to cause inflammation | Synonyms: pro-inflammatory |
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| prokaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: procaryotic |
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| prolusory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the character of a prolusion | - |
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| promissory | (adjective) relating to or having the character of a promise | - |
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| propitiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, expiatory |
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| (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiative |
| proprietary | (adjective) protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights | - |
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| provisionary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, tentative |
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| provisory | (adjective) subject to a proviso | - |
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| prying | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosey, nosy, snoopy |
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| pulmonary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonic |
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| punitory | (adjective) inflicting punishment | Synonyms: punitive |
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| pupillary | (adjective) of or relating to the pupil of the eye | - |
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| quaternary | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternate |
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| (adjective) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude | Synonyms: 4th, fourth |
| quincentenary | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentennial |
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| reactionary | (adjective) opposed to political or social liberalism or reform | Synonyms: far-right, reactionist |
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| recessionary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessive |
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| reciprocatory | (adjective) moving alternately backward and forward | Synonyms: reciprocative |
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| (adjective) given or done or owed to each other | Synonyms: reciprocative |
| recriminatory | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminative |
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| redemptory | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptional, redemptive |
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| reformatory | (adjective) tending to reform | Synonyms: reformative |
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| refractory | (adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: fractious, recalcitrant |
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| (adjective) temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to a process or stimulus | - |
| (adjective) not responding to treatment | Synonyms: stubborn |
| regulatory | (adjective) restricting according to rules or principles | Synonyms: regulative |
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