| arthralgic | (adjective) of or relating to arthralgia | - |
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| arthritic | (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
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| arthromeric | (adjective) of or relating to one of the body segments of jointed animals | - |
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| arthrosporic | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporous |
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| artistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of art or artists | - |
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| (adjective) satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities | - |
| (adjective) aesthetically pleasing | Synonyms: aesthetic, esthetic |
| ascetic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline | Synonyms: ascetical |
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| (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetical, austere, spartan |
| ascitic | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from an abnormal accumulation of protein and electrolyte rich fluid in the peritoneal cavity | - |
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| ascosporic | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporous |
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| aseptic | (adjective) free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms | Synonyms: sterile |
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| asphaltic | (adjective) containing asphalt | - |
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| aspheric | (adjective) varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape | Synonyms: aspherical |
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| astatic | (adjective) not static or stable | - |
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| asthenic | (adjective) having a slender physique | - |
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| (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, debilitated, enervated |
| asthmatic | (adjective) relating to breathing with a whistling sound | Synonyms: wheezing, wheezy |
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| astigmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images | - |
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| astrocytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing large star-shaped cells in the neuroglia | - |
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| astronautic | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautical |
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| astronomic | (adjective) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy | Synonyms: astronomical |
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| (adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomical, galactic |
| asymmetric | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
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| asymptomatic | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: symptomless |
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| asymptotic | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of an asymptote | - |
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| asyndetic | (adjective) lacking conjunctions | - |
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| asynergic | (adjective) of or relating to the state of asynergy; lacking synergy | - |
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| atactic | (adjective) lacking motor coordination; marked or caused by ataxia | Synonyms: ataxic |
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| ataractic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| ataraxic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| atavistic | (adjective) characteristic of an atavist | Synonyms: throwback |
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| ataxic | (adjective) lacking motor coordination; marked or caused by ataxia | Synonyms: atactic |
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| ateleiotic | (adjective) of or relating to ateleiosis | - |
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| atheistic | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheist, atheistical |
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| (adjective) rejecting any belief in gods | Synonyms: atheistical, unbelieving |
| atheromatic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling atheroma | Synonyms: atheromatous |
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| atherosclerotic | (adjective) of or relating to atherosclerosis | - |
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| athletic | (adjective) relating to or befitting athletics or athletes | - |
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| (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: acrobatic, gymnastic |
| (adjective) having a sturdy and well proportioned body | - |
| atmospheric | (adjective) relating to or located in the atmosphere | Synonyms: atmospherical |
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| atomic | (adjective) (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy | Synonyms: nuclear |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or comprising atoms | - |
| (adjective) immeasurably small | - |
| atomistic | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistical |
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| atonalistic | (adjective) of or relating to atonalism | - |
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| atonic | (adjective) (used of syllables) carrying no stress | Synonyms: unaccented |
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| (adjective) characterized by a lack of tonus | - |
| atoxic | (adjective) not producing or resulting from poison | Synonyms: nontoxic |
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| atrophic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by atrophy | - |
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| atypic | (adjective) not representative of a group, class, or type | Synonyms: atypical, untypical |
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| audiometric | (adjective) of or relating to audiometry | - |
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| augitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing the mineral augite | - |
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| auric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing or derived from gold | Synonyms: aurous |
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| austenitic | (adjective) composed of austenite | - |
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| autarchic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchical, autarkical |
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| autarkic | (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkical |
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| authentic | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: bona fide, unquestionable, veritable |
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| (adjective) conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief | Synonyms: reliable |
| autistic | (adjective) characteristic of or affected with autism | - |
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| autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
| autocatalytic | (adjective) relating to or proceeding by autocatalysis | - |
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| autochthonic | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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| autocratic | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| autodidactic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an autodidact | - |
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| autoerotic | (adjective) sexually satisfying yourself (as by masturbation) | - |
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| autogamic | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamous |
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| autogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to autogenesis | - |
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| autogenic | (adjective) originating within the body | Synonyms: autogenous |
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| autographic | (adjective) written in the author's own handwriting | - |
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| autolytic | (adjective) of or relating to self-digestion | - |
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| automatic | (adjective) operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control | - |
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| (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: reflex, reflexive |
| (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatonlike, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
| autonomic | (adjective) relating to or controlled by the autonomic nervous system | - |
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| autophytic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autotrophic |
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| autoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in autoplasty | - |
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| autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| autotelic | (adjective) of or relating to or believing in autotelism | - |
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| autotomic | (adjective) of or relating to autotomy | - |
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| autotrophic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autophytic |
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| autotypic | (adjective) of or relating to autotypy | - |
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| auxetic | (adjective) of or relating to growth by auxesis | - |
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| auxinic | (adjective) relating to or containing auxins | - |
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| avifaunistic | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunal |
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| avionic | (adjective) of or relating to avionics | - |
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| avitaminotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of avitaminosis | - |
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| axenic | (adjective) (of experimental animals) raised under sterile conditions | - |
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| (adjective) (used of cultures of microorganisms) completely free from other organisms | - |
| axiomatic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatical, postulational |
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| (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: aphoristic |
| (adjective) evident without proof or argument | Synonyms: self-evident, taken for granted |
| azoic | (adjective) before the appearance of life | - |
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| azonic | (adjective) not restricted to any particular zone or region | - |
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| azotemic | (adjective) of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency) | Synonyms: uraemic, uremic |
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| azotic | (adjective) of or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: nitric, nitrous |
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| bacchantic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler | - |
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| bacchic | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacteremic | (adjective) of or relating to or having bacteremia | - |
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| bacteriologic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriological |
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| bacteriolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis | - |
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| bacteriophagic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagous |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| balletic | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet | - |
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| ballistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity | - |
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| balsamic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamy |
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| banausic | (adjective) (formal) ordinary and not refined | - |
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| barbaric | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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| (adjective) unrestrained and crudely rich | - |
| bardic | (adjective) being a bard or relating to a bard's poetry | - |
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| baric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing barium | - |
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| barographic | (adjective) relating to or registered by a barograph | - |
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| barometric | (adjective) relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer | Synonyms: barometrical |
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| barytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing baryta | - |
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| basaltic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing basalt | - |
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| basic | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting a base or basis | - |
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| (adjective) of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base | - |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: canonic, canonical |
| (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: introductory |