| cultural | (adjective) of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors | - |
| (adjective) relating to the raising of plants or animals | - |
| (adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: ethnic, ethnical |
| cuneal | (adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneiform, wedge-shaped |
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| curatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a curator or the duties of a curator | - |
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| cursorial | (adjective) (of limbs and feet) adapted for running | - |
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| curtal | (adjective) (archaic) docked | - |
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| curvilineal | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilinear |
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| cuspidal | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| custodial | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: tutelar, tutelary |
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| cutaneal | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneous, dermal |
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| cyanobacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanophyte |
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| cyclical | (adjective) recurring in cycles | Synonyms: cyclic |
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| cycloidal | (adjective) resembling a circle | Synonyms: cycloid |
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| cyclonal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonic, cyclonical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonic, cyclonical |
| cyclonical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
| cylindrical | (adjective) having the form of a cylinder | Synonyms: cylindric |
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| cynical | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: misanthropic, misanthropical |
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| cytoarchitectural | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonic |
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| cytogenetical | (adjective) of or relating to cytogenetics | Synonyms: cytogenetic |
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| cytological | (adjective) of or relating to the science of cytology | Synonyms: cytologic |
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| daedal | (adjective) complex and ingenious in design or function | - |
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| decimal | (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: denary |
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| decompositional | (adjective) causing organic decay | - |
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| deferential | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferent, regardful |
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| deformational | (adjective) relating to or causing change in either shape or size of a material body or geometric figure | - |
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| delusional | (adjective) suffering from or characterized by delusions | - |
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| demagogical | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling a demagogue | Synonyms: demagogic |
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| demoniacal | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, possessed |
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| dendroidal | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| denominational | (adjective) adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a particular religious denomination | - |
| (adjective) relating to the face value of a banknote, coin, or stamp | - |
| dental | (adjective) of or relating to the teeth | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to dentistry | - |
| departmental | (adjective) of or relating to a department | - |
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| derivational | (adjective) characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base | - |
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| dermal | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the dermis | Synonyms: dermic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, epidermal, epidermic |
| (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, cutaneous |
| dermatological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing dermatology | Synonyms: dermatologic |
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| despotical | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotic |
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| detrimental | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious |
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| developmental | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting development | - |
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| devotional | (adjective) relating to worship | - |
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| dextral | (adjective) of or on the right | - |
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| (adjective) preferring to use right foot or hand or eye | - |
| dextrorsal | (adjective) spiraling upward from left to right | Synonyms: dextrorse |
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| diabolical | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diacritical | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritic |
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| diagonal | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| (adjective) connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face | - |
| diagrammatical | (adjective) shown or represented by diagrams | Synonyms: diagrammatic |
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| dialectal | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of a dialect | - |
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| dialectical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectic |
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| diametral | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical |
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| diametrical | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametric |
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| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, opposite, polar |
| diaphyseal | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphysial |
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| diaphysial | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphyseal |
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| diarrheal | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrhoeal | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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| (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| didactical | (adjective) instructive (especially excessively) | Synonyms: didactic |
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| diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| dietetical | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietary, dietetic |
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| differential | (adjective) relating to or showing a difference | - |
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| (adjective) involving or containing one or more derivatives | - |
| digital | (adjective) of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or performed with the fingers | - |
| (adjective) displaying numbers rather than scale positions | - |
| diluvial | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvian |
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| dimensional | (adjective) of or relating to dimensions | - |
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| (adjective) having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper to a person | - |
| dioestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrous |
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| diplomatical | (adjective) using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people | Synonyms: diplomatic |
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| directional | (adjective) relating to or indicating directions in space | - |
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| (adjective) relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal | - |
| (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directive, guiding |
| disciplinal | (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinary |
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| discoidal | (adjective) having a flat circular shape | Synonyms: disc-shaped, disclike, discoid, disk-shaped, disklike |
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| discretional | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretionary |
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| disloyal | (adjective) deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle | - |
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| (adjective) showing lack of love for your country | Synonyms: unpatriotic |
| dismal | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| disproportional | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportionate |
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| distal | (adjective) situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone | - |
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| (adjective) directed away from the midline or mesial plane of the body | - |
| distributional | (adjective) of or relating to spatial distribution | - |
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| diurnal | (adjective) of or belonging to or active during the day | - |
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| (adjective) having a daily cycle or occurring every day | - |
| divisional | (adjective) of or relating to a military division | - |
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| (adjective) serving to divide or marking a division | - |
| (adjective) constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: fractional |
| doctoral | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctorial |
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| doctorial | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctoral |
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| doctrinal | (adjective) relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine | - |
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| documental | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documentary |
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| dogmatical | (adjective) characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles | Synonyms: dogmatic |
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| dolichocranial | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocephalic, dolichocranic |
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| dominical | (adjective) of or relating to Sunday as the Lord's Day | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or coming from Jesus Christ | - |
| dorsal | (adjective) belonging to or on or near the back or upper surface of an animal or organ or part | - |
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| (adjective) facing away from the axis of an organ or organism | Synonyms: abaxial |
| dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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| dramaturgical | (adjective) relating to the technical aspects of drama | Synonyms: dramaturgic |
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| dropsical | (adjective) swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid | Synonyms: edematous |
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| dual | (adjective) consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs | Synonyms: double, duple |
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| (adjective) a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural) | - |
| (adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, three-fold, threefold, treble, two-fold, twofold |
| ducal | (adjective) of or belonging to or suitable for a duke | - |
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| duncical | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| duodecimal | (adjective) based on twelve | - |
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| duodenal | (adjective) in or relating to the duodenum | - |
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| dural | (adjective) of or relating to the dura mater | - |
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| dynamical | (adjective) characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality | Synonyms: dynamic |
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| dysfunctional | (adjective) impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ | - |
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| (adjective) (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose | Synonyms: nonadaptive |
| dyspneal | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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| dyspnoeal | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeic |
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| ecclesiastical | (adjective) of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church) | Synonyms: ecclesiastic |
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| ecological | (adjective) of or relating to the science of ecology | Synonyms: bionomic, bionomical, ecologic |
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| (adjective) characterized by the interdependence of living organisms in an environment | Synonyms: ecologic |
| economical | (adjective) of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth | Synonyms: economic |
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| (adjective) using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness | Synonyms: economic |
| (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting |
| ectodermal | (adjective) of or relating to the ectoderm | Synonyms: ectodermic |
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| ecumenical | (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
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| (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenic, oecumenic, oecumenical |
| edental | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edentate, edentulate |
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