| postmeridian | (adjective) after midday | - |
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| postmodern | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodernist |
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| praetorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, pretorial, pretorian |
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| predestinarian | (adjective) of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination | - |
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| prelapsarian | (adjective) of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve | - |
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| prescription | (adjective) available only with a doctor's written prescription | - |
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| preteen | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preadolescent |
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| pretorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorial |
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| proletarian | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat | - |
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| protean | (adjective) taking on different forms | - |
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| protozoan | (adjective) of or relating to the Protozoa | Synonyms: protozoal, protozoic |
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| proven | (adjective) established beyond doubt | Synonyms: proved |
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| quartan | (adjective) occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria) | - |
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| quotidian | (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, mundane, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
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| reborn | (adjective) spiritually reborn or converted | Synonyms: born-again |
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| (adjective) restored to new life and vigor | Synonyms: revitalised, revitalized |
| regulation | (adjective) prescribed by or according to regulation | - |
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| reptilian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Reptilia | - |
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| republican | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Republican Party | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government | - |
| riparian | (adjective) of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream | - |
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| risen | (adjective) (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon | - |
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| roan | (adjective) (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey | - |
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| rotten | (adjective) having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness | - |
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| (adjective) damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless | Synonyms: decayed, rotted |
| (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, shitty, stinking, stinky |
| roughhewn | (adjective) of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing | Synonyms: rough-cut |
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| salientian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian |
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| salmon | (adjective) of orange tinged with pink | Synonyms: pink-orange, pinkish-orange |
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| saurian | (adjective) of or relating to lizards | Synonyms: lacertilian |
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| sectarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects | - |
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| sesquipedalian | (adjective) (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables | Synonyms: polysyllabic |
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| (adjective) given to the overuse of long words | - |
| seven | (adjective) being one more than six | Synonyms: 7, vii |
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| seventeen | (adjective) being one more than sixteen | Synonyms: 17, xvii |
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| sewn | (adjective) fastened with stitches | Synonyms: sewed, stitched |
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| sexagenarian | (adjective) being from 60 to 69 years old | - |
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| shakedown | (adjective) intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system | - |
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| shaken | (adjective) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock | Synonyms: jolted |
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| shaven | (adjective) having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin | Synonyms: shaved |
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| shodden | (adjective) wearing footgear | Synonyms: shod, shoed |
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| shopworn | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| (adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopsoiled |
| shorn | (adjective) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | Synonyms: sheared |
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| shrunken | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled |
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| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled, withered, wizen, wizened |
| sign | (adjective) used of the language of the deaf | Synonyms: gestural, sign-language, signed |
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| silken | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silklike, silky, sleek, slick |
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| silvan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions | Synonyms: sylvan |
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| silvern | (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silver, silvery |
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| (adjective) resembling or reminiscent of silver | Synonyms: silvery |
| simian | (adjective) relating to or resembling an ape | - |
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| sixteen | (adjective) being one more than fifteen | Synonyms: 16, xvi |
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| slain | (adjective) killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors" | - |
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| smitten | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: stricken, struck |
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| (adjective) marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness | Synonyms: enamored, in love, infatuated, potty, soft on, taken with |
| sodden | (adjective) wet through and through; thoroughly wet | Synonyms: soppy |
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| solemn | (adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: grave, sedate, sober |
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| (adjective) characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions | Synonyms: earnest, sincere |
| southeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeasterly |
| southern | (adjective) situated in or coming from regions of the south | - |
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| (adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | - |
| (adjective) from the south; used especially of wind | Synonyms: southerly |
| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the south | Synonyms: southerly |
| southwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Nevada, Utah, Colorado | - |
| sovereign | (adjective) greatest in status or authority or power | Synonyms: supreme |
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| (adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: autonomous, independent, self-governing |
| sown | (adjective) sprinkled with seed | Synonyms: seeded |
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| spartan | (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetic, ascetical, austere |
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| (adjective) unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment | Synonyms: severe |
| (adjective) resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity | - |
| spoken | (adjective) uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination | - |
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| stentorian | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: booming |
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| stern | (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, strict |
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| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| (adjective) of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect | Synonyms: austere |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, severe, stark |
| stillborn | (adjective) (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn | - |
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| (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: abortive, unsuccessful |
| stricken | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, struck |
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| (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: afflicted |
| (adjective) put out of action (by illness) | Synonyms: laid low |
| stubborn | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: obstinate, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) not responding to treatment | Synonyms: refractory |
| subaltern | (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary |
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| subartesian | (adjective) (of water) rising naturally in a well to a height appreciably above that of the surrounding water table but not flowing out of the well | - |
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| subclavian | (adjective) situated beneath the clavicle | - |
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| subhuman | (adjective) less than human or not worthy of a human being | - |
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| (adjective) unfit for human beings | - |
| subocean | (adjective) formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed | Synonyms: suboceanic |
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| subterranean | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterraneous, ulterior |
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| (adjective) being or operating under the surface of the earth | Synonyms: subterraneous |
| suburban | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs | - |
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| sudden | (adjective) happening without warning or in a short space of time | - |
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| sullen | (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, lowering, threatening |
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| (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour |
| sunken | (adjective) having a sunken area | Synonyms: deep-set, recessed |
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| superhuman | (adjective) above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance | - |
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| swollen | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain |
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| (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
| sworn | (adjective) bound by or stated on oath | - |
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| (adjective) bound by or as if by an oath | Synonyms: pledged |
| sylvan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions | Synonyms: silvan |
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| taciturn | (adjective) habitually reserved and uncommunicative | - |
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| taken | (adjective) be affected with an indisposition | - |
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| (adjective) understood in a certain way; made sense of | Synonyms: interpreted |
| tan | (adjective) of a light yellowish-brown color | - |
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| tatterdemalion | (adjective) worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing | Synonyms: tattered |
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| (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down |
| teen | (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: adolescent, teenage, teenaged |
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| tellurian | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: telluric, terrene, terrestrial |
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| ten | (adjective) being one more than nine | Synonyms: 10, x |
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| terpsichorean | (adjective) of or relating to dancing | - |
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| tertian | (adjective) relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds | - |
| then | (adjective) at a specific prior time | - |
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| thespian | (adjective) of or relating to drama | - |
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| thin | (adjective) of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section | - |
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| (adjective) relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous | - |
| (adjective) lacking excess flesh | Synonyms: lean |
| (adjective) (of sound) lacking resonance or volume | - |
| (adjective) not dense | Synonyms: sparse |
| (adjective) very narrow | Synonyms: slender |
| (adjective) lacking spirit or sincere effort | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous |
| thirteen | (adjective) being one more than twelve | Synonyms: 13, xiii |
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| thrown | (adjective) caused to fall to the ground | - |
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| (adjective) twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread | Synonyms: thrown and twisted |
| timeworn | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| token | (adjective) insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal) | Synonyms: nominal, tokenish |
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| torn | (adjective) disrupted by the pull of contrary forces | - |
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| (adjective) having edges that are jagged from injury | Synonyms: lacerate, lacerated, mangled |
| totalitarian | (adjective) of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life | Synonyms: totalistic |
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| (adjective) characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control | - |
| trillion | (adjective) one million million in the United States | - |
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| (adjective) one quintillion in Great Britain | - |
| twin | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: duplicate, matching, twinned |
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| ultramodern | (adjective) extremely modern | - |
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| umpteen | (adjective) innumerable but many | Synonyms: umteen |
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| umteen | (adjective) innumerable but many | Synonyms: umpteen |
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| unbeaten | (adjective) not conquered | Synonyms: unconquered, unvanquished |
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| unbeholden | (adjective) free of moral obligation | - |
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