| autoicous | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate clusters on the same plant | - |
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| autologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of the selfsame individual | - |
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| autonomous | (adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: independent, self-governing, sovereign |
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| (adjective) (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment | Synonyms: self-directed, self-reliant |
| (adjective) existing as an independent entity | - |
| autoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in autoplasty | - |
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| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| autosomal | (adjective) of or relating to an autosome | - |
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| avaricious | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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| avascular | (adjective) without blood vessels | - |
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| averse | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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| avifaunistic | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunal |
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| awash | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
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| aweless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: awless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: awless |
| awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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| awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
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| awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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| awless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: aweless |
| awnless | (adjective) lacking or having only very short awns | - |
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| azygos | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygous |
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| azygous | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygos |
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| baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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| babyish | (adjective) characteristic of a baby | - |
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| bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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| baccivorous | (adjective) feeding on berries | - |
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| backless | (adjective) lacking a back | - |
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| backmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: hindermost, hindmost, rearmost |
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| backstage | (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: offstage |
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| backstair | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstairs, furtive |
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| backstairs | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, furtive |
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| backswept | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: sweptback |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| badass | (adjective) being impressive due to extreme attitude or style | - |
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| ballistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity | - |
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| balsamic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamy |
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| balsamy | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamic |
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| banausic | (adjective) (formal) ordinary and not refined | - |
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| baptised | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptized |
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| baptismal | (adjective) of or relating to baptism | - |
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| barbarous | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| (adjective) primitive in customs and culture | - |
| basal | (adjective) especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem | Synonyms: radical |
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| (adjective) serving as or forming a base | Synonyms: base |
| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: elemental, elementary, primary |
| basaltic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing basalt | - |
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| base | (adjective) serving as or forming a base | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) debased; not genuine | - |
| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: mean, meanspirited |
| (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: baseborn |
| (adjective) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal | - |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly |
| (adjective) not adhering to ethical or moral principles | Synonyms: immoral |
| baseborn | (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: base |
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| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, humble, lowly |
| based | (adjective) having a base of operations (often used as a combining form) | - |
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| (adjective) having a base | - |
| baseless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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| bashful | (adjective) disposed to avoid notice | Synonyms: blate |
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| (adjective) self-consciously timid | - |
| basic | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting a base or basis | - |
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| (adjective) of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base | - |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: canonic, canonical |
| (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: introductory |
| basidial | (adjective) relating to or characterized by basidia | - |
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| basidiomycetous | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes | - |
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| basidiosporous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia | - |
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| basifixed | (adjective) attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks) | - |
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| basilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilary |
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| basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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| basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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| basinal | (adjective) of or relating to a basin | - |
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| basined | (adjective) enclosed in a basin | - |
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| basipetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from apex to base | - |
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| basiscopic | (adjective) facing or on the side toward the base | - |
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| basophilic | (adjective) staining readily with basic dyes | - |
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| bass | (adjective) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range | Synonyms: deep |
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| bastard | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bogus, fake, phoney, phony |
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| bastardised | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardized |
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| bastardized | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardised |
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| bastardly | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: mean |
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| (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: misbegot, misbegotten, spurious |
| bastioned | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: fortified |
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| bats | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| beakless | (adjective) not having a beak or bill | - |
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| beamish | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: smiling, twinkly |
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| beardless | (adjective) lacking hair on the face | Synonyms: smooth-faced |
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| (adjective) having no beard | Synonyms: whiskerless |
| bearish | (adjective) expecting prices to fall | - |
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| beastly | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: bestial, brutal, brute, brutish |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: god-awful, hellish |
| beauteous | (adjective) (poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight | - |
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| bedfast | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed |
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| bedless | (adjective) without a bed | - |
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| behaviorist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behavioristic, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behaviourist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviouristic |
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| behaviouristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviourist |
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| belletristic | (adjective) written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content | - |
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| bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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| bellyless | (adjective) lacking a prominent belly | Synonyms: flat-bellied |
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| beltless | (adjective) lacking a belt | Synonyms: unbelted |
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| bemused | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| (adjective) deeply absorbed in thought | Synonyms: lost, preoccupied |
| berserk | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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| beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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| besieged | (adjective) surrounded by hostile forces | - |
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| besotted | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| bespectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: monocled, spectacled |
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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 |
| besprent | (adjective) sprinkled over | - |
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| best | (adjective) (superlative of `good') having the most positive qualities | - |
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| (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable | Synonyms: better |
| bestial | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, brutal, brute, brutish |
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| bestubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: stubbled, stubbly |
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| betulaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family | - |
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| bewhiskered | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bearded, whiskered, whiskery |
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| bias | (adjective) slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric | - |
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| biased | (adjective) favoring one person or side over another | Synonyms: colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted |
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| bibless | (adjective) lacking a bib | - |
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