| northeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including the New England states, New York, and sometimes New Jersey and Pennsylvania | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeasterly |
| northwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest |
| northwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and sometimes Montana, Wyoming | - |
| obliterable | (adjective) able to be obliterated completely | Synonyms: removable |
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| obliterate | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterated |
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| obliterated | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterate |
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| outer | (adjective) being on the outside or further from a center | - |
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| (adjective) being on or toward the outside of the body | - |
| (adjective) located outside | - |
| outermost | (adjective) situated at the farthest possible point from a center | Synonyms: outmost |
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| painterly | (adjective) having qualities unique to the art of painting | - |
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| parenteral | (adjective) located outside the alimentary tract | - |
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| (adjective) administered by means other than through the alimentary tract (as by intramuscular or intravenous injection) | - |
| paternal | (adjective) characteristic of a father | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: maternal, parental |
| (adjective) belonging to or inherited from one's father | - |
| (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, agnatic |
| paternalistic | (adjective) benevolent but sometimes intrusive | - |
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| patterned | (adjective) having patterns (especially colorful patterns) | - |
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| peripteral | (adjective) having columns on all sides | - |
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| pestered | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, harried, vexed |
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| pestering | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| plastered | (adjective) (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster | Synonyms: sealed |
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| (adjective) (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance | Synonyms: slicked |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
| posterior | (adjective) located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure | - |
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| (adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: later, ulterior |
| predetermined | (adjective) set in advance | Synonyms: preset |
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| preliterate | (adjective) not yet having acquired the ability to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: nonliterate |
| preposterous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, ridiculous |
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| preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
| proterozoic | (adjective) formed in the later of two divisions of the Precambrian era | - |
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| pseudoperipteral | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: peristylar |
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| pteridological | (adjective) of or relating to the study of ferns | - |
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| quadrilateral | (adjective) having four sides | Synonyms: four-sided |
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| quarterly | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of a quarter | - |
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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 |
| quaternate | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternary |
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| raftered | (adjective) having the rafters especially having them visible | - |
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| registered | (adjective) listed or recorded officially | - |
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| (adjective) (of animals) officially recorded with or certified by a recognized breed association; especially in a stud book | - |
| (adjective) (of a boat or vessel) furnished with necessary official documents specifying ownership etc | - |
| reiterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: iterative |
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| scatterbrained | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatty |
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| (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds |
| scattered | (adjective) occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space | - |
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| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, unconnected |
| scattershot | (adjective) covering a wide range in a haphazard way | - |
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| sceptered | (adjective) invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter | Synonyms: empowered, sceptred |
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| semiliterate | (adjective) literate but poorly informed | - |
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| (adjective) barely able to read and write | - |
| (adjective) able to read but not to write | - |
| semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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| sempiternal | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: dateless, endless |
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| sequestered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: cloistered, reclusive, secluded |
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| (adjective) kept separate and secluded | - |
| shattered | (adjective) ruined or disrupted | Synonyms: tattered |
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| shattering | (adjective) seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering | - |
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| shatterproof | (adjective) resistant to shattering or splintering | Synonyms: splinterless, splinterproof |
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| sheltered | (adjective) protected from danger or bad weather | - |
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| shuttered | (adjective) provided with shutters or shutters as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| sinister | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening |
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| (adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: black, dark |
| (adjective) on or starting from the wearer's left | - |
| sintered | (adjective) formed into a mass by heat and pressure | - |
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| sisterlike | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterly, sororal |
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| sisterly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterlike, sororal |
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| slatternly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, sluttish |
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| slaughterous | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguinary, sanguineous |
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| soteriological | (adjective) of or relating to soteriology | - |
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| southeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeast |
| southeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeasterly |
| southwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwest |
| southwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Nevada, Utah, Colorado | - |
| spattered | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: dabbled, splashed, splattered |
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| splattered | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: dabbled, spattered, splashed |
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| splinterless | (adjective) resistant to shattering or splintering | Synonyms: shatterproof, splinterproof |
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| splinterproof | (adjective) resistant to shattering or splintering | Synonyms: shatterproof, splinterless |
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| splintery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: slivery |
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| (adjective) subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces | - |
| stereo | (adjective) designating the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels | Synonyms: stereophonic, two-channel |
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| stereophonic | (adjective) designating the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels | Synonyms: stereo, two-channel |
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| stereoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to stereoscopy | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a stereoscope | - |
| stereotyped | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative |
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| stereotypic | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypical, unimaginative |
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| stereotypical | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypic, unimaginative |
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| sterile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: infertile, unfertile |
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| (adjective) free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms | Synonyms: aseptic |
| (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive |
| sterilised | (adjective) made infertile | Synonyms: sterilized |
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| sterilized | (adjective) made infertile | Synonyms: sterilised |
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| sterling | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, superlative |
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| stern | (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, strict |
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| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| (adjective) of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect | Synonyms: austere |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, severe, stark |
| sternal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the sternum | - |
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| sternutative | (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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| sternutatory | (adjective) tending to cause sneezing | - |
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| (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutative |
| steroidal | (adjective) of or relating to steroid hormones or their effects | - |
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| stertorous | (adjective) of breathing having a heavy snoring sound | - |
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| subaltern | (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary |
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| subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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| subterminal | (adjective) near but not precisely at an end | - |
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| subterranean | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterraneous, ulterior |
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| (adjective) being or operating under the surface of the earth | Synonyms: subterraneous |
| subterraneous | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterranean, ulterior |
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| (adjective) being or operating under the surface of the earth | Synonyms: subterranean |
| sweltering | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltry |
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| tatterdemalion | (adjective) worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing | Synonyms: tattered |
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| (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down |
| tattered | (adjective) ruined or disrupted | Synonyms: shattered |
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| (adjective) worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing | Synonyms: tatterdemalion |
| telemetered | (adjective) of or pertaining to telemetry | - |
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| teratogenic | (adjective) of or relating to substances or agents that can interfere with normal embryonic development | - |
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| terefah | (adjective) not conforming to dietary laws | Synonyms: nonkosher, tref |
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| terete | (adjective) especially of plant parts; cylindrical and tapering | - |
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| terminable | (adjective) capable of being terminated after a designated time | - |
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| terminal | (adjective) being or situated at an end | Synonyms: endmost |
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| (adjective) relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route | - |
| (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: concluding, final, last |
| (adjective) causing or ending in or approaching death | - |
| terminated | (adjective) (of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end | - |
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| (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, concluded, ended, over |
| terminative | (adjective) coming to an end | - |
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| terminological | (adjective) of or concerning terminology | - |
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| ternary | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: treble, triple, triplex |
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| ternate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) consisting of three leaflets or sections | - |
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| terpsichorean | (adjective) of or relating to dancing | - |
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| terrene | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, telluric, terrestrial |
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| (adjective) belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly | Synonyms: mundane |
| terrestrial | (adjective) operating or living or growing on land | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, telluric, terrene |
| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: planetary |
| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
| (adjective) concerned with the world or worldly matters | Synonyms: mundane |
| terrible | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific |
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| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: awful, frightful, tremendous |
| (adjective) intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality | Synonyms: severe, wicked |
| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, unspeakable |