| noncontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: discontinuous |
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| nonglutinous | (adjective) not resembling glue in texture | Synonyms: nonviscid |
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| nongregarious | (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nonsocial, solitary |
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| noninfectious | (adjective) not infectious | - |
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| nonpoisonous | (adjective) safe to eat | Synonyms: non-poisonous, nontoxic |
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| (adjective) not producing poison | Synonyms: non-poisonous |
| nonporous | (adjective) not porous; especially not having vessels that appear as pores | - |
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| nonresinous | (adjective) not having resin | Synonyms: non-resinous, non-resiny, nonresiny |
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| nonsynchronous | (adjective) not occurring together | Synonyms: unsynchronised, unsynchronized, unsynchronous |
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| nonvenomous | (adjective) not producing venom | - |
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| notorious | (adjective) known widely and usually unfavorably | Synonyms: ill-famed, infamous |
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| noxious | (adjective) injurious to physical or mental health | - |
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| numerous | (adjective) amounting to a large indefinite number | Synonyms: legion |
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| numinous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a numen | - |
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| (adjective) evincing the presence of a deity | - |
| nutritious | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive |
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| oblivious | (adjective) failing to keep in mind | Synonyms: forgetful |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of | Synonyms: unmindful |
| obnoxious | (adjective) causing disapproval or protest | Synonyms: objectionable |
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| obsequious | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner | - |
| obstreperous | (adjective) boisterously and noisily aggressive | - |
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| (adjective) noisily and stubbornly defiant | - |
| obvious | (adjective) easily perceived and understood | - |
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| odious | (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: abominable, detestable, execrable |
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| odoriferous | (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet |
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| (adjective) emitting an odor | Synonyms: odorous |
| odorous | (adjective) having odor or a characteristic odor | - |
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| (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odoriferous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet |
| (adjective) emitting an odor | Synonyms: odoriferous |
| officious | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling |
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| oleaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees or shrubs of the olive family | - |
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| oleaginous | (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oily, sebaceous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| ominous | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening |
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| (adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: ill, inauspicious |
| omnibus | (adjective) providing for many things at once | - |
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| omnifarious | (adjective) of all varieties or forms or kinds | - |
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| omnivorous | (adjective) feeding on both plants and animals | - |
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| onerous | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: burdensome, taxing |
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| onymous | (adjective) bearing a name | - |
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| opisthognathous | (adjective) having receding jaws | - |
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| opprobrious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, shameful |
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| (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: abusive, scurrilous |
| orthotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely straight with the micropyle at the apex | - |
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| osseous | (adjective) composed of or containing bone | Synonyms: bony, osteal |
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| ossiferous | (adjective) containing bones (especially fossil bones) | - |
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| ostentatious | (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: pretentious |
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| (adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: pretentious |
| outrageous | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, extortionate, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrid, horrific |
| overambitious | (adjective) excessively ambitious | - |
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| overanxious | (adjective) anxious or nervous to an excessive degree | - |
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| overcautious | (adjective) unnecessarily cautious | - |
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| overcredulous | (adjective) too credulous for your own good | - |
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| overcurious | (adjective) showing excessive curiosity | - |
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| overgenerous | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, munificent, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| overjealous | (adjective) suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival | Synonyms: green-eyed, jealous |
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| overserious | (adjective) excessively serious | - |
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| oversolicitous | (adjective) excessively solicitous | - |
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| oversuspicious | (adjective) unduly suspicious | - |
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| overzealous | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatic, fanatical, rabid |
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| oviparous | (adjective) egg-laying | - |
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| ovoviviparous | (adjective) producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body | - |
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| pachydermatous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermic, pachydermous |
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| (adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: callous, indurate |
| pachydermous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachydermic |
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| parlous | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: perilous, precarious, touch-and-go |
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| paroicous | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs separate in a single gametoecium | - |
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| parous | (adjective) having given birth to one or more viable children | - |
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| parsimonious | (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: penurious |
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| pelecypodous | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod |
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| pemphigous | (adjective) of or relating to or manifesting pemphigus | - |
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| pendulous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, nodding, weeping |
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| pentamerous | (adjective) divided into five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members | - |
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| penurious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched |
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| (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: parsimonious |
| percutaneous | (adjective) through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches) | Synonyms: transcutaneous, transdermal, transdermic |
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| perfidious | (adjective) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | Synonyms: punic, treacherous |
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| perilous | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: parlous, precarious, touch-and-go |
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| peritrichous | (adjective) covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella | - |
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| pernicious | (adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: insidious, subtle |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pestilent |
| perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
| perspicuous | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid |
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| pertinacious | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding |
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| pervious | (adjective) admitting of passage or entrance | - |
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| pestiferous | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestilent, pestilential, plaguey |
| (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, perversive |
| (adjective) contaminated with infecting organisms | Synonyms: dirty |
| petalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalled |
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| petrous | (adjective) (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness | Synonyms: stonelike |
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| phosphorous | (adjective) containing or characteristic of phosphorus | Synonyms: phosphoric |
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| phytophagous | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophilous, plant-eating |
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| phytophilous | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophagous, plant-eating |
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| pilosebaceous | (adjective) of or relating to a hair follicle and its sebaceous gland | - |
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| pilous | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilary, pilose |
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| pious | (adjective) having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity | - |
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| piscivorous | (adjective) feeding on fishes | - |
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| piteous | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| platitudinous | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinal |
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| plenteous | (adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: ample, copious, plentiful, rich |
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| pleurocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches | - |
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| plumbaginaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae | - |
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| plumbous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of lead | Synonyms: plumbic |
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| plus | (adjective) on the positive side or higher end of a scale | - |
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| (adjective) involving advantage or good | Synonyms: positive |
| poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
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| poisonous | (adjective) not safe to eat | - |
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| (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: venomous, vicious |
| (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: toxicant |
| polemoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Polemoniaceae | - |
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| polyandrous | (adjective) having more than one husband at a time | - |
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| polydactylous | (adjective) of or relating to a person (or other vertebrate) having more than the normal number of digits | Synonyms: polydactyl |
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| polyestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyoestrous |
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| polygamous | (adjective) having more than one mate at a time; used of relationships and individuals | - |
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| (adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: heteroicous, polyoicous |
| polygynous | (adjective) having more than one wife at a time | - |
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| polymorphous | (adjective) relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population | Synonyms: polymorphic |
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| (adjective) relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms | Synonyms: polymorphic |
| (adjective) having or occurring in several distinct forms | Synonyms: polymorphic |
| polyoestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyestrous |
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| polyoicous | (adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: heteroicous, polygamous |
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| polypetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of many separated or distinct petals | - |
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