| ahistorical | (adjective) unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition | - |
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| allegoric | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegorical |
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| allegorical | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegoric |
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| allegorically | (adverb) in an allegorical manner | - |
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| allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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| amphoric | (adjective) the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle | - |
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| anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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| arborical | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborous |
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| arboriculture | (noun) the tending of and caring for trees | Synonyms: tree farming |
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| arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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| arthrosporic | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporous |
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| ascosporic | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporous |
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| blastoporic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporal |
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| boric | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | Synonyms: boracic |
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| caloric | (adjective) relating to or associated with heat | Synonyms: thermal, thermic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to calories in food | - |
| camphoric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or containing camphor | - |
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| carposporic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carpospore | - |
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| categoric | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categorical |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categorical, flat, unconditional |
| categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
| categorically | (adverb) in an unqualified manner | Synonyms: flatly, unconditionally |
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| choric | (adjective) relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus | - |
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| clitoric | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoral |
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| doric | (adjective) of or pertaining to the Doric style of architecture | - |
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| dysphoric | (adjective) generalized feeling of distress | Synonyms: distressed, unhappy |
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| euphoric | (adjective) exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation | - |
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| floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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| floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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| historic | (adjective) important in history | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historical |
| historical | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: diachronic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the study of history | - |
| (adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historic |
| (adjective) having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary | - |
| historically | (adverb) with respect to history | - |
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| (adverb) throughout history | - |
| historicalness | (noun) significance owing to its history | - |
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| (noun) the state of having in fact existed in the past | - |
| historicism | (noun) a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history | - |
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| licorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: liquorice |
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| (noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, liquorice |
| liquorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: licorice |
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| (noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, licorice |
| lorica | (noun) a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example) | - |
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| metaphoric | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphorical |
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| metaphorical | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphoric |
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| metaphorically | (adverb) in a metaphorical manner | - |
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| meteoric | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions | Synonyms: meteorologic, meteorological |
| (adjective) like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience | - |
| micrometeoric | (adjective) of or relating to micrometeoroids | Synonyms: micrometeoritic |
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| noncaloric | (adjective) of food have no (or few) calories | - |
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| oratorical | (adjective) characteristic of an orator or oratory | - |
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| paregoric | (noun) medicine used to treat diarrhea | Synonyms: camphorated tincture of opium |
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| phantasmagoric | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic |
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| phantasmagorical | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagoric, surreal, surrealistic |
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| phosphoric | (adjective) containing or characteristic of phosphorus | Synonyms: phosphorous |
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| plethoric | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: overabundant, rife |
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| prehistoric | (adjective) of or relating to times before written history | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistorical |
| (adjective) outdated | - |
| prehistorical | (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistoric |
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| pyloric | (adjective) relating to or near the pylorus | - |
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| rhetoric | (noun) study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking) | - |
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| (noun) using language effectively to please or persuade | - |
| (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness |
| (noun) loud and confused and empty talk | Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver |
| rhetorical | (adjective) given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to rhetoric | - |
| rhetorically | (adverb) in a rhetorical manner | - |
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| rhetorician | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, speechifier, speechmaker |
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| unrhetorical | (adjective) not rhetorical | - |
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| uxoricide | (noun) the murder of a wife by her husband | - |
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| (noun) a husband who murders his wife | - |