| epiphyseal | (adjective) relating to the epiphysis of a bone | Synonyms: epiphysial |
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| epiphysial | (adjective) relating to the epiphysis of a bone | Synonyms: epiphyseal |
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| epiphytic | (adjective) of or relating to epiphytes | - |
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| epiphytotic | (adjective) (of plants) epidemic among plants of a single kind especially over a wide area | - |
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| epistolary | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolatory |
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| epistolatory | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolary |
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| eponymic | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymous |
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| eponymous | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymic |
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| erythematous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by erythema | - |
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| erythroid | (adjective) relating to erythrocytes | - |
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| erythropoietic | (adjective) of or relating to the formation of red blood cells | - |
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| etymological | (adjective) based on or belonging to etymology | - |
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| eucaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eukaryotic |
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| eukaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eucaryotic |
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| every | (adjective) (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception | - |
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| (adjective) each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified | - |
| everyday | (adjective) commonplace and ordinary | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, daily |
| (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
| evidentiary | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting evidence | - |
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| (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidential |
| evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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| excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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| exclamatory | (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: emphatic |
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| excretory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of excretion | - |
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| exculpatory | (adjective) clearing of guilt or blame | - |
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| excusatory | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: apologetic |
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| exemplary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) being or serving as an illustration of a type | Synonyms: emblematic, typic |
| (adjective) worthy of imitation | Synonyms: model |
| exemplifying | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: illustrative |
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| exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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| expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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| expiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, propitiatory |
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| expiratory | (adjective) of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration | - |
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| explanatory | (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear | - |
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| exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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| exploratory | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: explorative |
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| expository | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expositive |
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| extemporary | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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| (adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
| (adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
| extrasensory | (adjective) seemingly outside normal sensory channels | Synonyms: paranormal |
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| extrasystolic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening during an extrasystole | - |
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| eyed | (adjective) having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| eyeless | (adjective) lacking eyes or eyelike features | - |
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| (adjective) lacking sight | Synonyms: sightless, unseeing |
| eyelike | (adjective) suggesting an eye or eyes | - |
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| facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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| faddy | (adjective) intensely fashionable for a short time | Synonyms: faddish |
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| fancy | (adjective) not plain; decorative or ornamented | - |
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| faraway | (adjective) far removed mentally | - |
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| (adjective) very far away in space or time | Synonyms: far-off |
| fatherly | (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | Synonyms: fatherlike |
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| fatty | (adjective) containing or composed of fat | Synonyms: fat |
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| faulty | (adjective) having a defect | Synonyms: defective |
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| (adjective) characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules | Synonyms: incorrect, wrong |
| feathery | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, plumy |
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| (adjective) characterized by a covering of feathers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: featherlike |
| feisty | (adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: huffy, thin-skinned, touchy |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: plucky, spunky |
| ferny | (adjective) abounding in or covered with ferns | Synonyms: ferned |
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| (adjective) resembling ferns especially in leaf shape | Synonyms: fernlike |
| feudatory | (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord | - |
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| (adjective) owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign | - |
| fey | (adjective) slightly insane | Synonyms: touched |
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| (adjective) suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness | Synonyms: elfin |
| fidgety | (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: antsy, fretful, itchy, restless |
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| fiduciary | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another) | Synonyms: fiducial |
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| fiery | (adjective) like or suggestive of fire | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) passionate or quick-tempered | Synonyms: flaming |
| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| fifty | (adjective) being ten more than forty | Synonyms: 50, l |
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| filmy | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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| filthy | (adjective) disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter | Synonyms: foul, nasty |
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| (adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: cruddy, foul, nasty, smutty |
| (adjective) vile; despicable | Synonyms: dirty, lousy |
| finicky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, fussy, particular, picky |
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| fisheye | (adjective) of or relating to a fisheye lens | Synonyms: wide-angle |
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| fishy | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling fish | - |
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| (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: funny, shady, suspect, suspicious |
| fizzy | (adjective) hissing and bubbling | Synonyms: fizzing |
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| flabby | (adjective) out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance | Synonyms: flaccid, soft |
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| flakey | (adjective) made of or resembling flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
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| (adjective) made of or easily forming flakes | Synonyms: flaky |
| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| flaky | (adjective) made of or resembling flakes | Synonyms: flakey |
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| (adjective) made of or easily forming flakes | Synonyms: flakey |
| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| flamboyant | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, florid |
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| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: showy, splashy |
| flappy | (adjective) having a tendency to flap | - |
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| flashy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| flaunty | (adjective) inclined to flaunt | - |
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| fleecy | (adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: brushed, napped |
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| fleshly | (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, carnal, sensual |
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| fleshy | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling flesh | Synonyms: sarcoid |
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| (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: heavy, overweight |
| flighty | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: nervous, skittish, spooky |
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| (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained |
| flimsy | (adjective) not convincing | Synonyms: unconvincing |
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| (adjective) lacking solidity or strength | Synonyms: insubstantial |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: fragile, slight, tenuous, thin |
| flinty | (adjective) containing flint | - |
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| (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, granitic, obdurate, stony |
| floaty | (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: buoyant |
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| floppy | (adjective) hanging limply | - |
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| flossy | (adjective) like down or as soft as down | Synonyms: downlike, downy, fluffy |
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| floury | (adjective) resembling flour in fine powdery texture | - |
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| flowery | (adjective) of or relating to or suggestive of flowers | - |
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| (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: ornate |
| fluffy | (adjective) like down or as soft as down | Synonyms: downlike, downy, flossy |
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| flukey | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, fluky, iffy |
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| fluky | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, flukey, iffy |
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| fly | (adjective) (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked | - |
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| flyaway | (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flighty, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained |
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| (adjective) (of hair or clothing) worn loose | - |
| flyblown | (adjective) blemished, especially of reputation | - |
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| (adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive | Synonyms: sordid, squalid |
| (adjective) spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies | Synonyms: maggoty |
| flying | (adjective) hurried and brief | Synonyms: fast, quick |
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| (adjective) moving swiftly | Synonyms: fast-flying |
| flyspeck | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| foamy | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease | Synonyms: foaming, frothing |
| foggy | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: brumous, hazy, misty |
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| (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
| (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, groggy, logy, stuporous |
| (adjective) obscured by fog | Synonyms: fogged |
| fogyish | (adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy |
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| foldaway | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldable, folding |
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| folksy | (adjective) very informal and familiar | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the common people, especially in regard to speech patterns, attitudes, etc. | - |
| foolhardy | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: heady, rash, reckless |
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| formulary | (adjective) of or relating to or of the nature of a formula | - |
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| fortnightly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| forty | (adjective) being ten more than thirty | Synonyms: 40, twoscore, xl |
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| fourpenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 1 1/2 in or 3.8 cm long | - |
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| foxy | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| fragmentary | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmental |
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