| cyanobacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanophyte |
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| daughterly | (adjective) befitting a daughter | - |
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| deleterious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: hurtful, injurious |
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| detergent | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detersive |
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| determinable | (adjective) capable of being determined or limited or fixed | - |
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| determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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| determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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| (adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
| (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
| determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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| determined | (adjective) having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation | - |
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| (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, driven |
| (adjective) characterized by great determination | - |
| (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: dictated, set |
| (adjective) devoting full strength and concentrated attention to | - |
| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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| detersive | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergent |
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| deuteranopic | (adjective) inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red | Synonyms: green-blind |
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| dexter | (adjective) on or starting from the wearer's right | - |
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| dexterous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dextrous |
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| dictyopteran | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the order Dictyoptera | - |
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| dipterous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera | - |
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| disinterested | (adjective) unaffected by self-interest | - |
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| easterly | (adjective) from the east; used especially of winds | Synonyms: eastern |
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| (adjective) lying in or toward the east | Synonyms: eastern |
| eastern | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world | - |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States | - |
| (adjective) lying toward or situated in the east | - |
| (adjective) from the east; used especially of winds | Synonyms: easterly |
| (adjective) lying in or toward the east | Synonyms: easterly |
| easternmost | (adjective) farthest to the east | Synonyms: eastmost |
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| enteral | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteric |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteric, intestinal |
| enteric | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteral |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteral, intestinal |
| enterprising | (adjective) marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects | - |
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| entertained | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, diverted |
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| entertaining | (adjective) agreeably diverting | - |
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| equilateral | (adjective) having all sides or faces equal | - |
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| esoteric | (adjective) confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle | - |
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| eternal | (adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: endless, interminable |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| exoteric | (adjective) suitable for the general public | - |
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| exterior | (adjective) situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building | - |
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| exterminable | (adjective) capable of being totally destroyed or wiped out | Synonyms: extirpable |
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| exterminated | (adjective) destroyed completely | Synonyms: annihilated, wiped out |
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| external | (adjective) happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface | - |
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| (adjective) coming from the outside | Synonyms: extraneous, outside |
| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: international, outside |
| (adjective) purely outward or superficial | - |
| exteroceptive | (adjective) of or relating to exteroception | - |
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| exterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: extraterritorial |
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| extraterrestrial | (adjective) originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere | - |
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| extraterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: exterritorial |
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| faltering | (adjective) unsteady in speech or action | - |
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| fettered | (adjective) bound by chains fastened around the ankles | Synonyms: shackled |
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| fitter | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: healthier |
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| flattering | (adjective) showing or representing to advantage | - |
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| (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: adulatory |
| flustered | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled |
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| foster | (adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties | Synonyms: surrogate |
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| fraternal | (adjective) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova | Synonyms: biovular |
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| (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, brotherly |
| (adjective) of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men | - |
| 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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| glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| greater | (adjective) greater in size or importance or degree | - |
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| heterocercal | (adjective) possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the upper lobe | - |
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| heterocyclic | (adjective) containing a closed ring of atoms of which at least one is not a carbon atom | - |
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| heterodactyl | (adjective) (of bird feet) having the first and second toes directed backward the third and fourth forward | - |
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| heterodox | (adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: dissident, heretical |
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| heterodyne | (adjective) of or relating to the beat produced by heterodyning two oscillations | - |
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| heteroecious | (adjective) of parasites; passing through different stages of the life cycle on different host species | - |
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| heterogeneous | (adjective) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature | Synonyms: heterogenous |
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| (adjective) originating outside the body | Synonyms: heterogenous |
| heterogenous | (adjective) originating outside the body | Synonyms: heterogeneous |
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| (adjective) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature | Synonyms: heterogeneous |
| heteroicous | (adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: polygamous, polyoicous |
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| heterologic | (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterological, heterologous |
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| heterological | (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterologous |
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| heterologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of a different but related species | - |
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| (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterological |
| heterometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolous |
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| heterometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolic |
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| heterosexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex | - |
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| heterosporous | (adjective) characterized by heterospory | - |
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| heterothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, poikilothermic, poikilothermous |
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| heterotrophic | (adjective) requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment | - |
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| heterozygous | (adjective) having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| hymenopterous | (adjective) of or relating to insects of the order Hymenoptera | - |
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| hysteric | (adjective) characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria | Synonyms: hysterical |
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| hysterical | (adjective) marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria | Synonyms: hysteric |
| icteric | (adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: jaundiced, yellow |
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| icterogenic | (adjective) producing jaundice | - |
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| illiterate | (adjective) not able to read or write | - |
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| (adjective) lacking culture, especially in language and literature | - |
| (adjective) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field | Synonyms: ignorant |
| immaterial | (adjective) not consisting of matter | Synonyms: nonmaterial |
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| (adjective) of no importance or relevance especially to a law case | - |
| (adjective) without material form or substance | Synonyms: incorporeal |
| (adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: extraneous, impertinent, orthogonal |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other | Synonyms: indifferent |
| inalterable | (adjective) not capable of being changed or altered | Synonyms: unalterable |
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| indeterminable | (adjective) not capable of being definitely decided or ascertained | Synonyms: undeterminable |
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| (adjective) incapable of being definitely ascertained or calculated | - |
| indeterminate | (adjective) not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance | Synonyms: undetermined |
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| (adjective) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex | - |
| (adjective) of uncertain or ambiguous nature | - |
| (adjective) not leading to a definite ending or result | - |
| (adjective) (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved | - |
| inexterminable | (adjective) incapable of extermination or extirpation | Synonyms: inextirpable |
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| interactional | (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactive |
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| interactive | (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more) | Synonyms: synergistic |
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| (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactional |
| interbred | (adjective) bred of closely related parents | - |
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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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| intercellular | (adjective) located between cells | - |
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| interchangeable | (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, similar, standardised, standardized |
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| (adjective) (mathematics, logic) such that the arguments or roles can be interchanged | - |
| interchurch | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interdenominational |
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| intercollegiate | (adjective) used of competition between colleges or universities | - |
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| interconnected | (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated, unified |
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| (adjective) reciprocally connected | Synonyms: interrelated |
| intercontinental | (adjective) extending or taking place between or among continents | - |
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| intercostal | (adjective) located or occurring between the ribs | - |
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| intercrossed | (adjective) produced by crossbreeding | Synonyms: hybrid |
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| interdenominational | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interchurch |
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| interdepartmental | (adjective) between or among departments | - |
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| interdependent | (adjective) mutually dependent | Synonyms: mutualist, mutually beneficial |
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| interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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| interested | (adjective) having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: concerned |
| interesting | (adjective) arousing or holding the attention | - |
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| interfacial | (adjective) relating to or situated at an interface | - |
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| interfaith | (adjective) involving persons of different religious faiths | - |
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