| reticulate | (adjective) resembling or forming a network | Synonyms: reticular |
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| roseate | (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rosaceous, rose |
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| rostrate | (adjective) having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis | - |
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| runcinate | (adjective) having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves | - |
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| sacculate | (adjective) formed with or having saclike expansions | Synonyms: sacculated |
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| sagittate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes | Synonyms: arrow-shaped, sagittiform |
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| satiate | (adjective) supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction | Synonyms: satiated |
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| sedate | (adjective) characterized by dignity and propriety | Synonyms: staid |
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| (adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: grave, sober, solemn |
| 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 | - |
| semiprivate | (adjective) confined to a small number of hospital patients | - |
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| sensate | (adjective) having physical sensation | - |
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| separate | (adjective) independent; not united or joint | - |
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| (adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything | Synonyms: freestanding |
| (adjective) separated according to race, sex, class, or religion | - |
| (adjective) have the connection undone; having become separate | Synonyms: disjoined |
| septate | (adjective) of or relating to a septum | Synonyms: septal |
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| serrate | (adjective) notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex | Synonyms: notched, saw-toothed, serrated, toothed |
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| serrulate | (adjective) minutely serrated | - |
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| sinuate | (adjective) curved or curving in and out | Synonyms: sinuous, wiggly |
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| (adjective) having a strongly waved margin alternately concave and convex | - |
| spatulate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base | Synonyms: spatula-shaped |
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| spicate | (adjective) having or relating to spikes | - |
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| staminate | (adjective) capable of fertilizing female organs | Synonyms: antheral |
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| stellate | (adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center | Synonyms: radial, radiate |
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| striate | (adjective) marked with stria or striations | - |
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| sublimate | (adjective) made pure | - |
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| subordinate | (adjective) lower in rank or importance | Synonyms: low-level |
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| (adjective) subject or submissive to authority or the control of another | - |
| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: dependent |
| sulcate | (adjective) having deep narrow furrows or grooves | - |
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| superordinate | (adjective) of higher rank or status or value | - |
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| surrogate | (adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties | Synonyms: foster |
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| temperate | (adjective) not extreme in behavior | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate | - |
| (adjective) not extreme | Synonyms: moderate |
| ternate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) consisting of three leaflets or sections | - |
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| testate | (adjective) having made a legally valid will before death | - |
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| trabeate | (adjective) not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches) | Synonyms: trabeated |
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| trabeculate | (adjective) of or relating to trabeculae | Synonyms: trabecular |
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| triangulate | (adjective) composed of or marked with triangles | - |
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| tricuspidate | (adjective) having three cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: tricuspid |
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| trifoliate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having three leaflets | Synonyms: trifoliated, trifoliolate |
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| trifoliolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having three leaflets | Synonyms: trifoliate, trifoliated |
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| trilobate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) divided into three lobes | Synonyms: three-lobed, trilobated, trilobed |
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| trinucleate | (adjective) having three nuclei | Synonyms: trinuclear, trinucleated |
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| tripinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) thrice pinnate | Synonyms: tripinnated |
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| truncate | (adjective) terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off | Synonyms: truncated |
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| tuberculate | (adjective) covered with tubercles | - |
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| turbinate | (adjective) of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages | - |
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| (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, volute, voluted, whorled |
| ultimate | (adjective) furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme | - |
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| (adjective) being the last or concluding element of a series | - |
| umbellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels | Synonyms: umbellar |
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| (adjective) resembling an umbel in form | Synonyms: umbel-like |
| umbilicate | (adjective) depressed like a navel | - |
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| unaffectionate | (adjective) lacking affection or warm feeling | Synonyms: detached, uncaring |
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| unarticulate | (adjective) without or deprived of the use of speech or words | Synonyms: inarticulate |
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| uncompassionate | (adjective) lacking compassion or feeling for others | - |
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| undulate | (adjective) having a wavy margin and rippled surface | - |
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| unelaborate | (adjective) not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail | Synonyms: inelaborate |
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| unfortunate | (adjective) not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune | - |
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| (adjective) not auspicious; boding ill | Synonyms: inauspicious |
| (adjective) unsuitable or regrettable | - |
| unguiculate | (adjective) having or resembling claws or nails | Synonyms: unguiculated |
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| ungulate | (adjective) having or resembling hoofs | Synonyms: hoofed, hooved, ungulated |
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| unifoliate | (adjective) having a single leaf | - |
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| uninitiate | (adjective) not initiated; deficient in relevant experience | Synonyms: naive, uninitiated |
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| uninucleate | (adjective) having one nucleus | - |
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| uniovulate | (adjective) having a single ovule | Synonyms: uniovular |
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| unregenerate | (adjective) not reformed morally or spiritually | Synonyms: unregenerated |
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| (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: obstinate, stubborn |
| (adjective) unrepentant and incapable of being reformed | Synonyms: unreformable |
| urceolate | (adjective) urn-shaped; large below and contracted toward the mouth | - |
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| vacuolate | (adjective) formed into or containing one or more vacuoles or small membrane-bound cavities within a cell | Synonyms: vacuolated |
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| vermiculate | (adjective) decorated with wormlike tracery or markings | Synonyms: vermicular, vermiculated |
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| (adjective) infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms | Synonyms: worm-eaten, wormy |
| vertebrate | (adjective) having a backbone or spinal column | - |
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| verticillate | (adjective) forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) | Synonyms: verticillated, whorled |
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