| putrefacient | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefactive |
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| 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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| recumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: accumbent, decumbent |
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| recurrent | (adjective) recurring again and again | Synonyms: perennial, repeated |
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| redolent | (adjective) having a strong pleasant odor | Synonyms: aromatic |
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| (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
| (adjective) (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous | Synonyms: smelling |
| referent | (adjective) having reference | - |
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| refulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant |
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| regent | (adjective) acting or functioning as a regent or ruler | - |
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| reminiscent | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, resonant |
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| remittent | (adjective) (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity | - |
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| renascent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: resurgent |
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| repellent | (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: resistant |
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| (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellant |
| resident | (adjective) living in a particular place | - |
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| (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: nonmigratory |
| resilient | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, springy |
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| (adjective) recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like | - |
| resplendent | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, splendid, splendiferous |
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| respondent | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: answering |
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| resurgent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: renascent |
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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 |
| reverent | (adjective) feeling or showing profound respect or veneration | - |
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| (adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: godly, worshipful |
| salient | (adjective) (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees | - |
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| (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, spectacular, striking |
| (adjective) represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward) | - |
| sapient | (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: perspicacious, sagacious |
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| scandent | (adjective) used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb | - |
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| semipermanent | (adjective) relating to or extending over a relatively long time | Synonyms: long-run, long-term |
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| semitransparent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: translucent |
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| senescent | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
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| sent | (adjective) caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted | - |
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| sentient | (adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: animate |
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| (adjective) consciously perceiving | - |
| sequent | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequential, serial, successive |
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| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant |
| silent | (adjective) implied by or inferred from actions or statements | Synonyms: tacit, understood |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness | Synonyms: dumb, mute |
| (adjective) having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility | - |
| (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: soundless, still |
| (adjective) failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to | Synonyms: mum |
| (adjective) not made to sound | Synonyms: unsounded |
| (adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless |
| solvent | (adjective) capable of meeting financial obligations | - |
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| somnolent | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous |
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| sorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: absorbefacient |
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| spent | (adjective) depleted of energy, force, or strength | Synonyms: exhausted |
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| (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, gone, played out, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
| strident | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and harsh | Synonyms: raucous |
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| (adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous |
| (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant |
| stringent | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, tight |
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| subjacent | (adjective) lying nearby but lower | - |
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| subsequent | (adjective) following in time or order | - |
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| subservient | (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, instrumental |
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| (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: slavish, submissive |
| (adjective) compliant and obedient to authority | - |
| succulent | (adjective) tender and full of juice | Synonyms: lush |
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| sufficient | (adjective) of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant | - |
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| suffrutescent | (adjective) of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year | - |
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| superincumbent | (adjective) lying or resting on and exerting pressure on something else | - |
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| superjacent | (adjective) lying immediately above or on something else | - |
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| tetravalent | (adjective) having a valence of four | - |
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| totipotent | (adjective) having the ability to give rise to unlike cells | - |
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| transcendent | (adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: surpassing |
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| (adjective) beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding | - |
| transient | (adjective) of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind | Synonyms: transeunt |
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| (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transitory |
| translucent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparent |
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| transparent | (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid |
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| (adjective) easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety) | - |
| (adjective) free of deceit | Synonyms: guileless |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, vaporous, vapourous |
| trivalent | (adjective) having a valence of three | - |
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| truculent | (adjective) defiantly aggressive | - |
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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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| turbulent | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roiling, roily |
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| (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous |
| unapparent | (adjective) not readily apparent | - |
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| unbent | (adjective) erect in posture | Synonyms: straight, unbowed |
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| (adjective) not bent | - |
| unintelligent | (adjective) lacking intelligence | Synonyms: stupid |
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| univalent | (adjective) used of a chromosome that is not paired or united with its homologous chromosome during synapsis | - |
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| (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: monovalent |
| unsent | (adjective) not dispatched or transmitted | - |
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| unspent | (adjective) (of financial resources) not spent | Synonyms: unexpended |
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| urgent | (adjective) compelling immediate action | Synonyms: pressing |
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| valent | (adjective) (chemistry) having valence; usually used in combination | - |
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| vehement | (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, violent |
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| (adjective) characterized by great force or energy | - |
| violent | (adjective) acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: crimson, red |
| (adjective) effected by force or injury rather than natural causes | - |
| (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, vehement |
| (adjective) (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud | Synonyms: wild |
| virulent | (adjective) infectious; having the ability to cause disease | - |
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| (adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: deadly, venomous |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, vitriolic |