| biogeographical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographic |
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| biographical | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographic |
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| biological | (adjective) (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related | Synonyms: natural |
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| (adjective) pertaining to biology or to life and living things | Synonyms: biologic |
| biomedical | (adjective) relating to the activities and applications of science to clinical medicine | - |
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| bionomical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of ecology | Synonyms: bionomic, ecologic, ecological |
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| bipedal | (adjective) having two feet | Synonyms: biped, two-footed |
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| biracial | (adjective) consisting of or combining two races | - |
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| biradial | (adjective) showing both bilateral and radial symmetry | - |
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| bisectional | (adjective) of or relating to bisection | - |
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| bisexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to both sexes | - |
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| (adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: epicene |
| bismuthal | (adjective) of or relating to bismuth | - |
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| bizonal | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the combined affairs of two administrative zones | - |
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| blameful | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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| blastemal | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastematic, blastemic |
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| blastoporal | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporic |
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| blissful | (adjective) completely happy and contented | - |
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| blushful | (adjective) of blush color | Synonyms: rosy |
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| (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushing, red-faced |
| boastful | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| bobtail | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtailed |
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| boreal | (adjective) toward or located in the north | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind | - |
| (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: circumboreal |
| botanical | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanic |
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| botryoidal | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, boytrose |
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| botulinal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the botulinus | - |
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| bountiful | (adjective) producing in abundance | Synonyms: plentiful |
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| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
| brachial | (adjective) of or relating to an arm | - |
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| brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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| bracteal | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract | - |
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| brahminical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminic |
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| branchial | (adjective) of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) | - |
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| bridal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a bride | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: nuptial, spousal |
| brimful | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimfull, brimming |
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| brimfull | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimful, brimming |
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| bronchial | (adjective) relating to or associated with the bronchi | - |
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| brumal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: hibernal, hiemal |
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| brutal | (adjective) disagreeably direct and precise | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brute, brutish |
| (adjective) punishingly harsh | Synonyms: unrelenting |
| (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
| buccal | (adjective) of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the surface on which the mouth is located | Synonyms: oral |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or toward the cheek | - |
| bursal | (adjective) relating to or affecting a bursa | - |
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| cacuminal | (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: retroflex |
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| cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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| caecal | (adjective) of or like a cecum | Synonyms: cecal |
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| caesural | (adjective) of or relating to a caesura | - |
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| calcaneal | (adjective) relating to the heel bone or heel | - |
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| calendrical | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or used in a calendar or time measurement | Synonyms: calendric |
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| calligraphical | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphic |
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| calyceal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calycinal, calycine |
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| calycinal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycine |
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| cambial | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a cambium | - |
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| campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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| canonical | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonic |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonic |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonic |
| cantonal | (adjective) of or relating to a canton | - |
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| capital | (adjective) of principal importance | - |
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| (adjective) first-rate | - |
| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: great, majuscule |
| caramel | (adjective) having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown | Synonyms: caramel brown |
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| carbonyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonylic |
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| carboxyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxylic |
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| cardinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal |
| careful | (adjective) exercising caution or showing care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) cautiously attentive | Synonyms: heedful |
| (adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: thrifty |
| (adjective) full of cares or anxiety | - |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
| carinal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carina | - |
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| carnal | (adjective) of or relating to the body or flesh | - |
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| (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, fleshly, sensual |
| carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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| carpal | (adjective) of or relating to the wrist | - |
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| cartographical | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographic |
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| casual | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: cursory, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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| (adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: effortless |
| (adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: occasional |
| (adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: insouciant, nonchalant |
| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: daily, everyday |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: chance |
| (adjective) natural and unstudied | Synonyms: free-and-easy |
| (adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: fooling |
| (adjective) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand | - |
| casuistical | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistic |
| catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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| cataclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; running in the direction of the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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| cataclysmal | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmic |
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| catamenial | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: menstrual |
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| catarrhal | (adjective) of or relating to a catarrh | - |
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| catechetical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| catechismal | (adjective) of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity | - |
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| categorial | (adjective) of or relating to the concept of categories | - |
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| categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
| cathedral | (adjective) relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne | - |
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| catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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| caudal | (adjective) constituting or relating to a tail | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a tail | Synonyms: taillike |
| (adjective) situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises | - |
| causal | (adjective) involving or constituting a cause; causing | - |
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| cecal | (adjective) of or like a cecum | Synonyms: caecal |
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| celestial | (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: heavenly |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: heavenly |
| (adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: ethereal, supernal |
| cenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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| censorial | (adjective) belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions | - |
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| centennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centenary |
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| centesimal | (adjective) relating to or divided into hundredths | - |
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| (adjective) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order | Synonyms: 100th, hundredth |
| central | (adjective) in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal |
| centrical | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centric |
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| centrifugal | (adjective) tending to move away from a center | - |
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| (adjective) tending away from centralization, as of authority | - |
| (adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: motor |
| centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
| (adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
| centroidal | (adjective) of or relating to (especially passing through) a centroid | - |
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| cercarial | (adjective) of or relating to cercaria | - |
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| cereal | (adjective) made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it | - |
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| cerebral | (adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: intellectual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cerebrum or brain | - |
| cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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| ceremonial | (adjective) marked by pomp or ceremony or formality | - |
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| cervical | (adjective) relating to or associated with the neck | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cervix of the uterus | - |
| chaetal | (adjective) of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles) | - |
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| chanceful | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chancy, dicey, dodgy |
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| chancroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having chancroids | - |
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| changeful | (adjective) such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeable |
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| charcoal | (adjective) of a very dark grey | Synonyms: charcoal-gray, charcoal-grey |
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| charnel | (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral |
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| cheerful | (adjective) being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits | - |
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| (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: pollyannaish, upbeat |