| flustered | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled |
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| focused | (adjective) being in focus or brought into focus | Synonyms: focussed |
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| (adjective) of an optical system (e.g. eye or opera glasses) adjusted to produce a clear image | - |
| (adjective) (of light rays) converging on a point | Synonyms: focussed |
| focussed | (adjective) being in focus or brought into focus | Synonyms: focused |
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| (adjective) (of light rays) converging on a point | Synonyms: focused |
| foliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant | - |
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| (adjective) bearing numerous leaves | Synonyms: foliaged, foliose |
| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliate, foliated |
| fortuitous | (adjective) occurring by happy chance | - |
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| (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: causeless, uncaused |
| fossiliferous | (adjective) bearing or containing fossils | - |
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| fractious | (adjective) unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome | - |
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| (adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: recalcitrant, refractory |
| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| frivolous | (adjective) not serious in content or attitude or behavior | - |
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| frustrated | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, thwarted |
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| frustrating | (adjective) discouraging by hindering | - |
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| (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrative, thwarting |
| frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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| fugacious | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory |
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| fulgurous | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant |
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| fungous | (adjective) of or relating to fungi | Synonyms: fungal |
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| funguslike | (adjective) resembling fungi | Synonyms: fungoid |
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| furious | (adjective) marked by extreme anger | Synonyms: angered, enraged, infuriated, maddened |
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| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, raging, tempestuous, wild |
| (adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: ferocious, fierce, savage |
| fuscous | (adjective) of something having a dusky brownish grey color | Synonyms: taupe |
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| fused | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated |
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| fusible | (adjective) capable of being melted and fused | - |
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| fusiform | (adjective) tapering at each end | Synonyms: cigar-shaped, spindle-shaped |
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| fussy | (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: busy |
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| (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
| (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, particular, picky |
| fusty | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: nonprogressive, standpat, unprogressive |
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| (adjective) stale and unclean smelling | Synonyms: frowsty, musty |
| gallinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a gallinacean | - |
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| gamopetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel | Synonyms: sympetalous |
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| gangrenous | (adjective) suffering from tissue death | Synonyms: mortified |
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| garrulous | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky |
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| gaseous | (adjective) existing as or having characteristics of a gas | - |
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| gelatinous | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, jellylike |
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| gemmiferous | (adjective) bearing or reproducing by a gemma | - |
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| generous | (adjective) willing to give and share unstintingly | - |
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| (adjective) not petty in character and mind | - |
| (adjective) more than is usual or necessary | - |
| geosynchronous | (adjective) of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth) | - |
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| gibbous | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbose |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
| glabrous | (adjective) having no hair or similar growth; smooth | - |
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| glamorous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamourous |
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| glamourous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamorous |
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| glaucous | (adjective) having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants | - |
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| glorious | (adjective) having or deserving or conferring glory | - |
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| (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: resplendent, splendid, splendiferous |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, magnificent, splendid |
| glutinous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| gluttonous | (adjective) given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink | - |
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| gorgeous | (adjective) dazzlingly beautiful | - |
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| gracious | (adjective) characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: benignant |
| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, nice |
| (adjective) disposed to bestow favors | - |
| granuliferous | (adjective) producing or full of granules | - |
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| granulomatous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by granulomas | - |
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| gratuitous | (adjective) without cause | - |
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| (adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: needless, uncalled-for |
| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratis |
| greenhouse | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect | - |
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| gregarious | (adjective) (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) growing in groups that are close together | - |
| (adjective) instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others | - |
| grievous | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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| (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, monstrous |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, heavy, weighty |
| (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending |
| grumous | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumose |
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| gumptious | (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, industrious, up-and-coming |
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| gushing | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, effusive |
| (adjective) flowing profusely | Synonyms: pouring |
| gushy | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushing |
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| gusseted | (adjective) provided or reinforced with gussets | - |
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| gustative | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustatorial, gustatory |
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| gustatorial | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatory |
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| gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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| gusty | (adjective) blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts | Synonyms: puffy |
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| gymnospermous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae | - |
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| gynandromorphous | (adjective) having both male and female morphological characteristics | Synonyms: gynandromorphic |
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| harmonious | (adjective) musically pleasing | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: proportionate, symmetrical |
| (adjective) existing together in harmony | - |
| (adjective) suitable and fitting | - |
| hazardous | (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: risky, wild |
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| heinous | (adjective) extremely wicked, deeply criminal | Synonyms: flagitious |
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| hemimetabolous | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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| hemimetamorphous | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic |
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| herbaceous | (adjective) characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part | - |
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| herbivorous | (adjective) feeding only on plants | - |
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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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| 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 |
| 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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| heterosporous | (adjective) characterized by heterospory | - |
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| heterozygous | (adjective) having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| hideous | (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: horrid, horrific, outrageous |
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| (adjective) so extremely ugly as to be terrifying | Synonyms: repulsive |
| hilarious | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: screaming, uproarious |
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| holometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolic |
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| homoecious | (adjective) of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | Synonyms: autoecious |
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| homogeneous | (adjective) all of the same or similar kind or nature | Synonyms: homogenous |
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| homogenous | (adjective) all of the same or similar kind or nature | Synonyms: homogeneous |
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| homologous | (adjective) corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species | - |
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| (adjective) having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function | - |
| homonymous | (adjective) of or related to or being homonyms | Synonyms: homonymic |
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| homophonous | (adjective) characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way | - |
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| homosporous | (adjective) characterized by homospory | - |
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| homostylous | (adjective) (botany) having styles all of the same length | Synonyms: homostyled, homostylic |
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| homozygous | (adjective) having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| horrendous | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrific, terrible |
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| housebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: homebound, shut-in |
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| housebroken | (adjective) (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place | Synonyms: house-trained |
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| housewifely | (adjective) related or suited to a housewife | - |
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| humongous | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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| humorous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humourous |
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| humourous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humorous |
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| husbandly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a husband | - |
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| (adjective) related to or suited to a husband | - |
| hushed | (adjective) in a softened tone | Synonyms: muted, quiet, subdued |
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| husky | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: gruff, hoarse |
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| (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, strapping |
| hydrous | (adjective) containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate) | Synonyms: hydrated |
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| hymenopterous | (adjective) of or relating to insects of the order Hymenoptera | - |
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| hypognathous | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: prognathic, prognathous |
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| ichorous | (adjective) of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies | Synonyms: sanious |
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| idolatrous | (adjective) relating to or practicing idolatry | - |
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| (adjective) blindly or excessively devoted or adoring | - |