| abducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducting |
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| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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| adducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducting, adductive |
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| adjacent | (adjective) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space | Synonyms: next, side by side |
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| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: conterminous, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| (adjective) near or close to but not necessarily touching | - |
| adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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| (adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
| (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
| albescent | (adjective) becoming or shading into white | - |
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| alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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| alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| decent | (adjective) conforming to conventions of sexual behavior | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, satisfactory |
| (adjective) observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress | - |
| (adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: fitting |
| (adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: nice |
| (adjective) sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public | - |
| defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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| dehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| demulcent | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, salving, softening |
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| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| excrescent | (adjective) forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) | - |
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| fluorescent | (adjective) brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source | - |
| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| ignescent | (adjective) can emit sparks or burst into flame | - |
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| incandescent | (adjective) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: candent |
| indecent | (adjective) offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters | - |
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| (adjective) offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance | - |
| (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward |
| indehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits) not opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| innocent | (adjective) free from evil or guilt | Synonyms: clean-handed, guiltless |
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| (adjective) lacking intent or capacity to injure | Synonyms: innocuous |
| (adjective) lacking in sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: ingenuous |
| (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, devoid, free |
| (adjective) (used of things) lacking sense or awareness | - |
| (adjective) not knowledgeable about something specified | Synonyms: unacquainted |
| (adjective) free from sin | Synonyms: impeccant, sinless |
| intumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| iridescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent |
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| (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, shot |
| liquescent | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: melting |
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| lucent | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lambent, luminous |
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| luminescent | (adjective) emitting light not caused by heat | - |
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| magnificent | (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, splendid |
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| maleficent | (adjective) harmful or evil in intent or effect | - |
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| munificent | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| nascent | (adjective) being born or beginning | - |
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| nocent | (adjective) having a tendency to cause harm | - |
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| noctilucent | (adjective) shining or glowing by night | - |
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| nonadjacent | (adjective) not adjacent; not next | - |
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| noneffervescent | (adjective) not effervescent | - |
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| (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: still |
| obsolescent | (adjective) becoming obsolete | - |
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| opalescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opaline, pearlescent |
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| pearlescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline |
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| phosphorescent | (adjective) emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous | - |
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| preadolescent | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preteen |
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| prepubescent | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubertal |
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| pubescent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, puberulent, sericeous |
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| (adjective) (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature | - |
| putrescent | (adjective) becoming putrid | - |
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| quiescent | (adjective) being quiet or still or inactive | - |
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| (adjective) (pathology) causing no symptoms | - |
| (adjective) not active or activated | - |
| (adjective) marked by a state of tranquil repose | - |
| radiolucent | (adjective) almost complete transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation | - |
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| recent | (adjective) new | - |
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| (adjective) of the immediate past or just previous to the present time | Synonyms: late |
| recrudescent | (adjective) the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement | - |
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| reminiscent | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, resonant |
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| renascent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: resurgent |
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| reticent | (adjective) temperamentally disinclined to talk | Synonyms: untalkative |
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| (adjective) reluctant to draw attention to yourself | Synonyms: retiring, self-effacing |
| (adjective) cool and formal in manner | Synonyms: restrained, unemotional |
| senescent | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
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| subjacent | (adjective) lying nearby but lower | - |
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| suffrutescent | (adjective) of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year | - |
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| superjacent | (adjective) lying immediately above or on something else | - |
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| translucent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparent |
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| tumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumid, turgid |
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