| lecherous | (adjective) given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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| leguminous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of legumes | - |
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| lentiginous | (adjective) relating to or covered with or resembling freckles | Synonyms: freckled, lentiginose |
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| leprous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or having leprosy | - |
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| libellous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libelous, slanderous |
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| libelous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, slanderous |
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| libidinous | (adjective) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires | Synonyms: lascivious, lewd, lustful |
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| licentious | (adjective) lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained | - |
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| ligneous | (adjective) consisting of or containing lignin or xylem | - |
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| liliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Liliaceae | - |
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| litigious | (adjective) of or relating to litigation | - |
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| (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, disputative |
| lobeliaceous | (adjective) belonging to the family Lobeliaceae | - |
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| longanimous | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: forbearing |
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| loquacious | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, talkative, talky |
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| lubricious | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lustful, prurient, salacious |
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| (adjective) having a smooth or slippery quality | - |
| lucifugous | (adjective) light-avoiding | Synonyms: lucifugal |
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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 |
| lugubrious | (adjective) excessively mournful | - |
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| luminous | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lambent, lucent |
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| luscious | (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, lush, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
| 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 |
| luxurious | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
| macrencephalous | (adjective) having a large brain case | Synonyms: macrencephalic |
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| macrocephalous | (adjective) having an exceptionally large head and brain | Synonyms: macrocephalic |
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| magnanimous | (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: big, large |
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| (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: greathearted |
| malicious | (adjective) having the nature of or resulting from malice | - |
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| 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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| marvellous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvelous, tall |
| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvelous, miraculous |
| marvelous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvellous, tall |
| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvellous, miraculous |
| mecopterous | (adjective) of or relating to mecopterans | - |
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| mellifluous | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellisonant, sweet |
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| melodious | (adjective) containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody | Synonyms: melodic, musical |
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| (adjective) having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune | Synonyms: tuneful |
| membranous | (adjective) relating to or made of or similar to a membrane | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane) | Synonyms: membrane-forming |
| mendacious | (adjective) intentionally untrue | - |
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| (adjective) given to lying | - |
| mercurous | (adjective) of or containing mercury | Synonyms: mercuric |
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| meretricious | (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute | - |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, specious |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| meritorious | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritable |
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| metabolous | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolic |
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| metamorphous | (adjective) of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks) | Synonyms: metamorphic |
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| (adjective) produced by metamorphosis | - |
| meticulous | (adjective) marked by extreme care in treatment of details | - |
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| (adjective) marked by precise accordance with details | Synonyms: punctilious |
| micaceous | (adjective) hydrous silicates of or relating to or resembling mica | - |
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| microcephalous | (adjective) having an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain | Synonyms: microcephalic, nanocephalic |
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| minacious | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| minus | (adjective) on the negative side or lower end of a scale | - |
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| (adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: negative |
| miraculous | (adjective) peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention | Synonyms: heaven-sent, providential |
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| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvellous, marvelous |
| miscellaneous | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, mixed, motley, sundry |
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| (adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, multifaceted, multifarious |
| mischievous | (adjective) deliberately causing harm or damage | - |
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| (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
| misogynous | (adjective) hating women in particular | Synonyms: misogynistic |
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| momentaneous | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentary |
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| momentous | (adjective) of very great significance | - |
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| monandrous | (adjective) having only one husband at a time | - |
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| monecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monoecious, monoicous |
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| monestrous | (adjective) having one estrous cycle per year | Synonyms: monoestrous |
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| monochromous | (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic |
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| monoclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in the same flower | - |
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| monocotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having a single cotyledon in the seed as in grasses and lilies | - |
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| monoecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monecious, monoicous |
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| monoestrous | (adjective) having one estrous cycle per year | Synonyms: monestrous |
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| monogamous | (adjective) (used of relationships and of individuals) having one mate | - |
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| monogynous | (adjective) having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines) | Synonyms: monogynic |
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| monoicous | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monecious, monoecious |
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| monosemous | (adjective) having only one meaning | - |
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| monotonous | (adjective) tediously repetitious or lacking in variety | Synonyms: humdrum |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonic |
| monstrous | (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, grievous |
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| (adjective) abnormally large | - |
| (adjective) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous | Synonyms: grotesque |
| moraceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Moraceae | - |
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| mordacious | (adjective) biting or given to biting | - |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent |
| mountainous | (adjective) like a mountain in size and impressiveness | - |
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| (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, craggy, hilly |
| (adjective) containing many mountains | - |
| muciferous | (adjective) containing or secreting mucus | - |
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| mucilaginous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| mucinous | (adjective) relating to or containing mucin | - |
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| mucocutaneous | (adjective) of or relating to the mucous membranes and skin | - |
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| mucous | (adjective) of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus | Synonyms: mucose |
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| multifarious | (adjective) having many aspects or qualities | Synonyms: many-sided, miscellaneous, multifaceted |
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| multiparous | (adjective) producing more than one offspring at a time | - |
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| multitudinous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| murderous | (adjective) characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being | Synonyms: homicidal |
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| murmurous | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: rustling, soughing, susurrous |
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| mutinous | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to or in a state of mutiny | - |
| myrmecophagous | (adjective) feeding on ants | - |
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| myrmecophilous | (adjective) living symbiotically with ants | - |
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| mysterious | (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mystic, mystical, occult, orphic, secret |
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| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mystifying |
| nacreous | (adjective) consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl | - |
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| (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent |
| nauseous | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, queasy, sick, sickish |
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| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
| nebulous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a nebula | Synonyms: nebular |
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| (adjective) lacking definition or definite content | Synonyms: unfixed |
| (adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: cloudy, nebulose |
| necessitous | (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, poverty-stricken |
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| nectariferous | (adjective) possessing nectaries | - |
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| nectarous | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, ambrosian |
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| nefarious | (adjective) extremely wicked | Synonyms: villainous |
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| neotenous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by neoteny | Synonyms: neotenic |
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| nervous | (adjective) of or relating to the nervous system | Synonyms: neural |
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| (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, skittish, spooky |
| (adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: aflutter |
| (adjective) easily agitated | - |
| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet |
| neuromatous | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by neuromas | - |
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| nidicolous | (adjective) (of birds) remaining in the nest for a time after hatching | - |
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| nidifugous | (adjective) (of birds) leaving the nest shortly after hatching | - |
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| nitrogenous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: nitrogen-bearing |
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| nitrous | (adjective) of or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: azotic, nitric |
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| nonautonomous | (adjective) (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: nonsovereign |
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| nonconscious | (adjective) relating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things | - |
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| (adjective) concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness | - |
| noncontagious | (adjective) (of disease) not capable of being passed on | Synonyms: noncommunicable, nontransmissible |
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| noncontentious | (adjective) of persons; not given to controversy | - |
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