| acellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: noncellular |
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| acetabular | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: cotyloid, cotyloidal |
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| acicular | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acerose, needle-shaped |
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| acinar | (adjective) pertaining to the individual parts making up an aggregate fruit like a blackberry | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinic, acinose, acinous |
| aflicker | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: flickering |
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| aflutter | (adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: nervous |
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| after | (adjective) located farther aft | - |
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| aglitter | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| ajar | (adjective) slightly open | - |
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| alabaster | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabastrine |
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| alar | (adjective) of or relating to the axil | Synonyms: axillary |
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| (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alary, aliform, wing-shaped |
| allover | (adjective) covering the entire surface | - |
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| alular | (adjective) pertaining to alulae | - |
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| alveolar | (adjective) pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the sockets of the teeth or that part of the upper jaw | - |
| amateur | (adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: recreational, unpaid |
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| (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateurish, inexpert, unskilled |
| amber | (adjective) of a medium to dark brownish yellow color | Synonyms: brownish-yellow, yellow-brown |
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| amphiprostylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostyle, amphistylar, porticoed |
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| amphistylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, porticoed |
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| (adjective) having columns either at both ends or at both sides | - |
| ampullar | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullary |
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| angular | (adjective) having angles or an angular shape | Synonyms: angulate |
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| (adjective) measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle | - |
| annular | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annulate, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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| another | (adjective) any of various alternatives; some other; entity, singular, other pronoun; quantifier, singular, another | Synonyms: some other |
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| anterior | (adjective) of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body | - |
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| (adjective) earlier in time | Synonyms: prior |
| anticancer | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: antineoplastic, antitumor, antitumour |
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| antitumor | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumour |
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| antitumour | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumor |
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| appendicular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of an appendage or appendages; especially the limbs | - |
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| areolar | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolate |
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| arteriolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving arterioles | - |
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| articular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the joints of the body | Synonyms: articulary |
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| astir | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: about |
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| (adjective) out of bed | Synonyms: up |
| astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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| astylar | (adjective) lacking columns or pillars | - |
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| asunder | (adjective) widely separated especially in space | - |
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| atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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| auricular | (adjective) of or relating to near the ear | Synonyms: otic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to an auricle of the heart | - |
| (adjective) relating to or perceived by or shaped like the organ of hearing | - |
| auriculoventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: atrioventricular |
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| avascular | (adjective) without blood vessels | - |
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| avuncular | (adjective) being or relating to an uncle | - |
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| (adjective) resembling an uncle in kindness or indulgence | - |
| bacillar | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillary |
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| (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
| backstair | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstairs, furtive |
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| banner | (adjective) unusually good; outstanding | - |
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| basilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilary |
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| better | (adjective) (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another | - |
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| (adjective) (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness | - |
| (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable | Synonyms: best |
| (adjective) more than half | - |
| biauricular | (adjective) relating to the two auditory openings | - |
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| bicapsular | (adjective) divided into two capsules or having a two-part capsule | - |
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| bicolor | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| bicolour | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolored, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| bifilar | (adjective) having or using two filaments | - |
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| bigger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: larger |
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| bilinear | (adjective) linear with respect to each of two variables or positions | - |
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| bilocular | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: biloculate |
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| bimolecular | (adjective) relating to or affecting two molecules | - |
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| binocular | (adjective) relating to both eyes | - |
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| binuclear | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binucleate, binucleated |
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| biovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova | Synonyms: fraternal |
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| bipolar | (adjective) having two poles | - |
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| (adjective) of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to manic depressive illness | - |
| bitter | (adjective) proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity | - |
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| (adjective) very difficult to accept or bear | - |
| (adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: biting |
| (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: acrimonious |
| (adjective) expressive of severe grief or regret | - |
| (adjective) causing a sharp and acrid taste experience | - |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| blastular | (adjective) of or relating to a blastula | Synonyms: blastospheric |
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| blear | (adjective) tired to the point of exhaustion | Synonyms: blear-eyed, bleary-eyed, bleary |
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| bonzer | (adjective) remarkable or wonderful | - |
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| bronchiolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving bronchioles | - |
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| bulbar | (adjective) involving the medulla oblongata | - |
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| calicular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calycular |
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| caller | (adjective) providing coolness | - |
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| (adjective) fresh | - |
| calycular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calicular |
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| campanular | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanulate, campanulated |
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| canalicular | (adjective) relating to or like or having a canaliculus | - |
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| canicular | (adjective) relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star) | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer | - |
| cannular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiform |
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| capitular | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitulary |
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| capsular | (adjective) of or relating to a capsule | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a capsule | - |
| carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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| cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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| caruncular | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculous |
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| catacorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, cater-cornered, catercorner, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| cavalier | (adjective) given to haughty disregard of others | Synonyms: high-handed |
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| cellular | (adjective) characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization) | - |
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| (adjective) relating to cells | - |
| center | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: centre |
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| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: centre, halfway, middle, midway |
| cerebellar | (adjective) relating to or associated with the cerebellum | - |
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| cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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| chipper | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, jaunty |
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| cinnabar | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, vermilion, vermillion |
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| circular | (adjective) having the shape or form of a circle | Synonyms: round |
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| (adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: orbitual, rotary |
| circumpolar | (adjective) located or found throughout a polar region | - |
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| (adjective) (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel | - |
| cislunar | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
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| clear | (adjective) readily apparent to the mind | - |
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| (adjective) allowing light to pass through | - |
| (adjective) free from clouds or mist or haze | - |
| (adjective) accurately stated or described | Synonyms: well-defined |
| (adjective) free from confusion or doubt | - |
| (adjective) characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving | Synonyms: percipient |
| (adjective) clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible | Synonyms: clean-cut, clear-cut |
| (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
| (adjective) easily deciphered | Synonyms: decipherable, readable |
| (adjective) clear of charges or deductions | - |
| (adjective) free from flaw or blemish or impurity | - |
| (adjective) (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law | Synonyms: unmortgaged |
| (adjective) affording free passage or view | Synonyms: open |
| (adjective) free of restrictions or qualifications | Synonyms: clean |
| (adjective) characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt) | - |
| (adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clean, light, unclouded |
| (adjective) free from contact or proximity or connection | - |
| clever | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: cunning, ingenious |
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| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: apt |
| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, canny |
| cochlear | (adjective) of or relating to the cochlea of the ear | - |
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| collinear | (adjective) lying on the same line | - |
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| color | (adjective) having or capable of producing colors | Synonyms: colour |
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| colour | (adjective) having or capable of producing colors | Synonyms: color |
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| columnar | (adjective) characterized by columns | - |
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| (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columniform, columnlike |
| condylar | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a condyle | - |
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| consular | (adjective) having to do with a consul or his office or duties | - |
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| coplanar | (adjective) lying in the same plane | - |
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| copular | (adjective) of or relating to a copula | - |
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| corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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| cosher | (adjective) conforming to Jewish dietary laws | Synonyms: kosher |
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