| biquadratic | (adjective) involving the fourth and no higher power of a quantity or degree | - |
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| blastematic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastemic |
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| blastodermatic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermic |
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| blastogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to blastogenesis | - |
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| blastomycotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of blastomycosis | - |
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| bombastic | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| bregmatic | (adjective) of or relating to the bregma of the skull | - |
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| bronchitic | (adjective) suffering from or prone to bronchitis | - |
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| bryophytic | (adjective) relating to plants of the division Bryophyta | - |
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| bureaucratic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy | - |
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| cabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| cachectic | (adjective) relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia | - |
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| calcitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing calcite | - |
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| cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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| capitalistic | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalist |
| casuistic | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistical |
| catabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night | Synonyms: katabatic |
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| catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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| catalatic | (adjective) of or relating to the enzyme catalase | - |
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| catalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| cataleptic | (adjective) of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy | - |
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| catalytic | (adjective) relating to or causing or involving catalysis | - |
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| cataphatic | (adjective) of or relating to the religious belief that God can be known to humans positively or affirmatively | - |
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| cataphoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: electrophoretic |
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| cataplastic | (adjective) of or relating to cataplasia | - |
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| catapultic | (adjective) of or like a catapult | Synonyms: catapultian |
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| catechetic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetical |
| catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| categorematic | (adjective) of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition | - |
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| cathartic | (adjective) emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | Synonyms: releasing |
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| (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: evacuant, purgative |
| (adjective) emotionally purging | Synonyms: psychotherapeutic |
| cathectic | (adjective) of or relating to cathexis | - |
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| caustic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| cenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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| cenogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to cenogenesis | - |
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| centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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| chaotic | (adjective) of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions | - |
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| (adjective) lacking a visible order or organization | Synonyms: helter-skelter |
| (adjective) completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing | Synonyms: disorderly |
| characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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| charismatic | (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: magnetic |
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| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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| chiasmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmic |
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| chiliastic | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: millenarian |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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| chlorotic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: greensick |
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| chondritic | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: granular |
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| chromatic | (adjective) being or having or characterized by hue | - |
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| (adjective) based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones | - |
| (adjective) able to refract light without spectral color separation | - |
| cinematic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the cinema | - |
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| classicistic | (adjective) of or relating to classicism | - |
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| clastic | (adjective) capable of being taken apart | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone) | - |
| climactic | (adjective) consisting of or causing a climax | - |
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| climatic | (adjective) of or relating to a climate | Synonyms: climatical |
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| coenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitical |
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| collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| cometic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometary |
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| communistic | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communist |
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| conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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| concretistic | (adjective) of or relating to concrete representations of abstractions | - |
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| copacetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copasetic, copesetic, copesettic |
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| copasetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copesetic, copesettic |
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| copesetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copasetic, copesettic |
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| copesettic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copasetic, copesetic |
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| cosmetic | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: enhancive |
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| (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: decorative, ornamental |
| cryptanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptic | (adjective) having a puzzling terseness | - |
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| (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptobiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of cryptobiosis | - |
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| cubistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubist |
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| cyanogenetic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenic |
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| cybernetic | (adjective) of or relating the principles of cybernetics | - |
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| cystic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a cyst | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a normal cyst (as the gallbladder or urinary bladder) | - |
| cytogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to cytogenetics | Synonyms: cytogenetical |
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| cytokinetic | (adjective) of or relating to the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following the division of the nucleus | - |
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| cytolytic | (adjective) of or relating to cytolysis, the dissolution or destruction of a cell | - |
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| cytoplasmatic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoplasm | Synonyms: cytoplasmic |
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| cytoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to a cytoplast | - |
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| czaristic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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| dacitic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of dacite | - |
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| deictic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use | - |
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| deistic | (adjective) of or relating to deism | Synonyms: deist |
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| democratic | (adjective) characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality | - |
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| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: popular |
| demotic | (adjective) of or for the common people | - |
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| dendritic | (adjective) (neuroscience) of or relating to or resembling a dendrite | - |
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| despotic | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotical |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (adjective) ruled by or characteristic of a despot | - |
| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| diabatic | (adjective) involving a transfer of heat | - |
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| diabetic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing diabetes | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from diabetes | - |
| diacritic | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritical |
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| diagnostic | (adjective) concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: symptomatic |
| diagrammatic | (adjective) shown or represented by diagrams | Synonyms: diagrammatical |
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| dialectic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectical |
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| diamagnetic | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting diamagnetism; slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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| dianoetic | (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: discursive |
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| diaphoretic | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: sudorific |
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| diarrhetic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrhoetic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic |
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| dichromatic | (adjective) of or relating to dichromatism | - |
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| (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured |
| didactic | (adjective) instructive (especially excessively) | Synonyms: didactical |
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| dietetic | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietary, dietetical |
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| diplomatic | (adjective) using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people | Synonyms: diplomatical |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of diplomacy | - |
| dislogistic | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dyslogistic, pejorative |
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| dizygotic | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygous |
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