boreal | (adjective) toward or located in the north | - |
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(adjective) relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind | - |
(adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: circumboreal |
botanical | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanic |
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botryoidal | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, boytrose |
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botulinal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the botulinus | - |
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brachial | (adjective) of or relating to an arm | - |
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brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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bracteal | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract | - |
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brahminical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminic |
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branchial | (adjective) of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) | - |
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bridal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a bride | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: nuptial, spousal |
bronchial | (adjective) relating to or associated with the bronchi | - |
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brumal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: hibernal, hiemal |
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brutal | (adjective) disagreeably direct and precise | - |
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(adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brute, brutish |
(adjective) punishingly harsh | Synonyms: unrelenting |
(adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
buccal | (adjective) of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the surface on which the mouth is located | Synonyms: oral |
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(adjective) of or relating to or toward the cheek | - |
bursal | (adjective) relating to or affecting a bursa | - |
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cacuminal | (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: retroflex |
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cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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caecal | (adjective) of or like a cecum | Synonyms: cecal |
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caesural | (adjective) of or relating to a caesura | - |
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calcaneal | (adjective) relating to the heel bone or heel | - |
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calendrical | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendric |
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calligraphical | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphic |
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calyceal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calycinal, calycine |
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calycinal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycine |
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cambial | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a cambium | - |
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campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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canonical | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonic |
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(adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonic |
(adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, sanctioned |
(adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonic |
cantonal | (adjective) of or relating to a canton | - |
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capital | (adjective) of principal importance | - |
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(adjective) first-rate | - |
(adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: great, majuscule |
cardinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order | - |
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(adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal |
carinal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carina | - |
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carnal | (adjective) of or relating to the body or flesh | - |
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(adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, fleshly, sensual |
carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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carpal | (adjective) of or relating to the wrist | - |
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cartographical | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographic |
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casual | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: cursory, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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(adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: effortless |
(adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: occasional |
(adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: insouciant, nonchalant |
(adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: daily, everyday |
(adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: chance |
(adjective) natural and unstudied | Synonyms: free-and-easy |
(adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: fooling |
(adjective) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand | - |
casuistical | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistic |
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(adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistic |
catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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cataclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; running in the direction of the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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cataclysmal | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmic |
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catamenial | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: menstrual |
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catarrhal | (adjective) of or relating to a catarrh | - |
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catechetical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetic |
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catechismal | (adjective) of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity | - |
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categorial | (adjective) of or relating to the concept of categories | - |
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categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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(adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
cathedral | (adjective) relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne | - |
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catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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caudal | (adjective) constituting or relating to a tail | - |
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(adjective) resembling a tail | Synonyms: taillike |
(adjective) situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises | - |
causal | (adjective) involving or constituting a cause; causing | - |
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cecal | (adjective) of or like a cecum | Synonyms: caecal |
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celestial | (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: heavenly |
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(adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: heavenly |
(adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: ethereal, supernal |
cenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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censorial | (adjective) belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions | - |
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centennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centenary |
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centesimal | (adjective) relating to or divided into hundredths | - |
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(adjective) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order | Synonyms: 100th, hundredth |
central | (adjective) in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | - |
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(adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal |
centrical | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centric |
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centrifugal | (adjective) tending to move away from a center | - |
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(adjective) tending away from centralization, as of authority | - |
(adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: motor |
centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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(adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
(adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
centroidal | (adjective) of or relating to (especially passing through) a centroid | - |
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cercarial | (adjective) of or relating to cercaria | - |
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cereal | (adjective) made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it | - |
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cerebral | (adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: intellectual |
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(adjective) of or relating to the cerebrum or brain | - |
cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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ceremonial | (adjective) marked by pomp or ceremony or formality | - |
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cervical | (adjective) relating to or associated with the neck | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the cervix of the uterus | - |
chaetal | (adjective) of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles) | - |
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chancroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having chancroids | - |
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charcoal | (adjective) of a very dark grey | Synonyms: charcoal-gray, charcoal-grey |
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cheliceral | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: chelicerate |
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chemical | (adjective) relating to or used in chemistry | Synonyms: chemic |
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(adjective) of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes | - |
chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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chiasmal | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmatic, chiasmic |
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chimeral | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeric, chimerical |
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chimerical | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimeric |
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(adjective) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination | - |
chlamydial | (adjective) of or pertaining to the sexually transmitted infection or to the parasite | - |
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choral | (adjective) related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir | - |
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chordal | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or emphasizing chords | - |
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chromatographical | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographic |
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chromosomal | (adjective) of or relating to a chromosome | - |
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chronological | (adjective) relating to or arranged according to temporal order | - |
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cilial | (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: ciliary, ciliate |
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circumboreal | (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: boreal |
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circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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circumstantial | (adjective) fully detailed and specific about particulars | - |
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clamatorial | (adjective) of or relating to Clamatores | - |
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classical | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classic |
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(adjective) of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors | - |
(adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classic |
(adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture | Synonyms: Graeco-Roman, Greco-Roman |
(adjective) of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas | - |
(adjective) (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics | - |
clausal | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a clause | - |
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clerical | (adjective) of or relating to the clergy | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to clerks | - |
(adjective) appropriate for or engaged in office work | - |
climatical | (adjective) of or relating to a climate | Synonyms: climatic |
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clinical | (adjective) relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients | - |
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(adjective) scientifically detached; unemotional | - |
clitoral | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoric |
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cloistral | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical |
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clonal | (adjective) of or relating to a clone | - |
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coastal | (adjective) located on or near or bordering on a coast | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a coast | - |
(adjective) along or following a coast | Synonyms: coastwise |
coaxal | (adjective) having a common axis | Synonyms: coaxial |
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coaxial | (adjective) having a common axis | Synonyms: coaxal |
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coccal | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a coccus | - |
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coccygeal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the coccyx | - |
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