| adulterous | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: extracurricular, extramarital |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: cheating, two-timing |
| adventurous | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventuresome |
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| aeriferous | (adjective) conveying air; as the bronchial tubes | - |
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| allomerous | (adjective) pertaining to allomerism | - |
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| aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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| ambidextrous | (adjective) equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
| amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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| amorous | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amative |
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| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, romantic |
| anestrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anoestrous |
| anhydrous | (adjective) without water; especially without water of crystallization | - |
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| anoestrous | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anestrous |
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| anurous | (adjective) not having a tail | Synonyms: tailless |
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| apivorous | (adjective) feeding on bees | - |
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| apterous | (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apteral |
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| aquiferous | (adjective) of or relating to an aquifer | - |
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| arborous | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborical |
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| argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
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| arthrosporous | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporic |
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| ascosporous | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporic |
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| auriferous | (adjective) containing gold | Synonyms: gold-bearing |
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| aurous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing or derived from gold | Synonyms: auric |
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| bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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| baccivorous | (adjective) feeding on berries | - |
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| barbarous | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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| (adjective) primitive in customs and culture | - |
| basidiosporous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia | - |
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| bibliolatrous | (adjective) given to Bible-worship | - |
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| biparous | (adjective) producing two offspring at a time | Synonyms: twinning |
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| blusterous | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blustery |
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| boisterous | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: knockabout |
| (adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: fierce, rough |
| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| cankerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: ulcerated, ulcerous |
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| canorous | (adjective) richly melodious | Synonyms: songful |
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| cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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| (adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
| carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
| carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
| carposporous | (adjective) having carpospores | - |
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| cerous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium with valence 3 | - |
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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| chelicerous | (adjective) having chelicerae | - |
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| cheliferous | (adjective) having chelae | - |
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| chivalrous | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: gallant, knightly |
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| chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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| citrous | (adjective) of or relating to or producing fruit of the plants of the genus Citrus | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to plants of the genus Citrus | - |
| clamorous | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, strident, vociferous |
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| clangorous | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clanging |
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| congenerous | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerical |
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| coniferous | (adjective) of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves | Synonyms: cone-bearing |
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| cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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| cumbrous | (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbersome |
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| cuprous | (adjective) of or containing divalent copper | Synonyms: cupric |
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| dangerous | (adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm | Synonyms: unsafe |
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| (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
| decorous | (adjective) characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct | - |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, seemly |
| desirous | (adjective) having or expressing desire for something | Synonyms: wishful |
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| dexterous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dextrous |
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| dextrous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dexterous |
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| diestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrual, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| dioestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrual |
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| dipterous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera | - |
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| disastrous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful |
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| dolorous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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| dolourous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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| estrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat | - |
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| ferrous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing iron | Synonyms: ferric |
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| feverous | (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| fibrous | (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: sinewy, stringy, unchewable |
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| (adjective) having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute | Synonyms: hempen |
| fissiparous | (adjective) reproducing by fission | - |
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| (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: breakaway, separatist |
| flavorous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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| flavourous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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| fossiliferous | (adjective) bearing or containing fossils | - |
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| fulgurous | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant |
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| gemmiferous | (adjective) bearing or reproducing by a gemma | - |
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| generous | (adjective) willing to give and share unstintingly | - |
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| (adjective) not petty in character and mind | - |
| (adjective) more than is usual or necessary | - |
| glabrous | (adjective) having no hair or similar growth; smooth | - |
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| glamorous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamourous |
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| glamourous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamorous |
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| granuliferous | (adjective) producing or full of granules | - |
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| herbivorous | (adjective) feeding only on plants | - |
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| heterosporous | (adjective) characterized by heterospory | - |
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| homosporous | (adjective) characterized by homospory | - |
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| humorous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humourous |
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| humourous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humorous |
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| hydrous | (adjective) containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate) | Synonyms: hydrated |
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| hymenopterous | (adjective) of or relating to insects of the order Hymenoptera | - |
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| ichorous | (adjective) of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies | Synonyms: sanious |
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| idolatrous | (adjective) relating to or practicing idolatry | - |
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| (adjective) blindly or excessively devoted or adoring | - |
| indecorous | (adjective) lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct | Synonyms: indelicate |
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| (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward |
| innumerous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| inodorous | (adjective) having no odor | Synonyms: odorless, odourless |
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| insectivorous | (adjective) (of animals and plants) feeding on insects | - |
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| languorous | (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid |
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| lecherous | (adjective) given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| leprous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or having leprosy | - |
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| ludicrous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| (adjective) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce | Synonyms: farcical, ridiculous |
| lustrous | (adjective) brilliant | - |
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| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, shining, shiny |
| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, sheeny, shining, shiny |
| malodorous | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling |
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| malodourous | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodorous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling |
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