| horary | (adjective) relating to the hours | - |
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| hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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| hungry | (adjective) feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food | - |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | Synonyms: athirst, thirsty |
| illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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| illusory | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusive |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| incendiary | (adjective) involving deliberate burning of property | - |
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| (adjective) capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily | - |
| (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
| incriminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating |
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| inculpatory | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpative |
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| indicatory | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
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| inflammatory | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| (adjective) characterized or caused by inflammation | - |
| inflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation | - |
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| informatory | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informative |
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| inframaxillary | (adjective) relating to the lower jaw | Synonyms: mandibular |
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| ingratiatory | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, insinuating |
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| (adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: coaxing |
| inhibitory | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: repressing, repressive |
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| initiatory | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiative, maiden |
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| inquisitory | (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: probing, searching |
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| insanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: unhealthful, unsanitary |
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| inspiratory | (adjective) pertaining to the drawing in phase of respiration | - |
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| insurrectionary | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectional |
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| integumentary | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumental |
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| intercalary | (adjective) having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: | - |
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| interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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| interlocutory | (adjective) consisting of dialogue | - |
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| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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| interrogatory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogative |
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| intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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| introductory | (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: basic |
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| (adjective) serving to open or begin | - |
| (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: prefatorial, prefatory |
| investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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| invitatory | (adjective) conveying an invitation | - |
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| involuntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: nonvoluntary, unvoluntary |
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| (adjective) controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control | - |
| jittery | (adjective) characterized by jerky movements | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| lachrymatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lacrimatory |
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| lacrimatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lachrymatory |
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| laniary | (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: canine |
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| lapidary | (adjective) of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them | - |
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| lathery | (adjective) resembling lather or covered with lather | Synonyms: sudsy |
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| laudatory | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: praiseful, praising |
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| leathery | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike |
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| leery | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary |
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| legendary | (adjective) so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend | - |
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| (adjective) celebrated in fable or legend | Synonyms: fabled |
| levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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| levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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| literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
| livery | (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, liverish |
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| mammary | (adjective) of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female | - |
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| mandatory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: compulsory, required |
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| maxillary | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw | - |
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| mediatory | (adjective) of or related to or directed toward mediation | - |
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| medullary | (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part | - |
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| (adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata | - |
| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| merry | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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| (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, festive, gay |
| (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, mirthful |
| migratory | (adjective) used of animals that move seasonally | - |
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| (adjective) habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work | Synonyms: migrant |
| military | (adjective) associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare | - |
| millenary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of 1000 | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium | - |
| minatory | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| miry | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| missionary | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missional |
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| mitigatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, palliative |
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| momentary | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous |
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| monetary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: pecuniary |
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| monitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, warning |
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| mortuary | (adjective) of or relating to a funeral | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of death | - |
| multistory | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistorey, multistoried |
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| nary | (adjective) (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a' | - |
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| necessary | (adjective) absolutely essential | - |
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| (adjective) unavoidably determined by prior circumstances | - |
| nonarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: unarbitrary |
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| nonexploratory | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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| nonhairy | (adjective) without hair | - |
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| nonhereditary | (adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nontransmissible |
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| noninflammatory | (adjective) not inflammatory | - |
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| nonliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: unliterary |
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| nonmandatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonobligatory |
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| nonmigratory | (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: resident |
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| nonmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: unmilitary |
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| nonobligatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonmandatory |
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| nonoscillatory | (adjective) not having periodic vibrations | - |
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| nonproprietary | (adjective) not protected by trademark or patent or copyright | - |
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| nonslippery | (adjective) not slippery; not likely to slip or skid | - |
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| nonvoluntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: involuntary, unvoluntary |
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| nugatory | (adjective) of no real value | - |
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| nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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| obligatory | (adjective) morally or legally constraining or binding | - |
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| (adjective) required by obligation or compulsion or convention | - |
| olfactory | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactive |
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| ordinary | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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| (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
| ornery | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, crotchety |
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| oscillatory | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillating |
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| palpatory | (adjective) relating to or involving palpation | - |
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| paltry | (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: measly, miserable |
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| (adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: negligible, trifling |
| papery | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: chartaceous, paperlike |
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| (adjective) thin and paperlike | - |
| papillary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillose |
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| paramilitary | (adjective) of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like or to assist a military unit | - |
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| parliamentary | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a parliament | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament | - |
| (adjective) in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly | - |
| participatory | (adjective) affording the opportunity for individual participation | - |
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| pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: monetary |
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| penitentiary | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitential |
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| (adjective) used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers | - |
| peppery | (adjective) having the piquant burning taste of peppers | - |
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| peremptory | (adjective) putting an end to all debate or action | - |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial |
| (adjective) not allowing contradiction or refusal | - |