| avitaminotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of avitaminosis | - |
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| axiomatic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatical, postulational |
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| (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: aphoristic |
| (adjective) evident without proof or argument | Synonyms: self-evident, taken for granted |
| axiomatical | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, postulational |
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| axiomatically | (adverb) on the basis of axioms | - |
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| azotic | (adjective) of or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: nitric, nitrous |
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| bacchantic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler | - |
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| bacteriolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis | - |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| balletic | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet | - |
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| ballistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity | - |
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| ballistics | (noun) the science of flight dynamics | - |
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| (noun) the trajectory of an object in free flight | Synonyms: ballistic trajectory |
| barytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing baryta | - |
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| basaltic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing basalt | - |
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| bathetic | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| batholitic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholithic |
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| bauxitic | (adjective) resembling or containing bauxite | - |
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| beautician | (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: cosmetician |
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| behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behaviouristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviourist |
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| belemnitic | (adjective) of or relating to belemnites | - |
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| belletristic | (adjective) written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content | - |
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| bentonitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing bentonite | - |
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| bibliotic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliotics | - |
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| bibliotics | (noun) the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity | - |
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| billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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| bimetallistic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallic |
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| biocatalytic | (adjective) of or relating to biocatalysts | - |
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| bioclimatic | (adjective) of or concerned with the relations of climate and living organisms | - |
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| biogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the production of living organisms from other living organisms | - |
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| biologistic | (adjective) of or relating to biologism | - |
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| biostatistics | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometrics, biometry |
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| biosynthetic | (adjective) of or relating to biosynthesis | - |
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| biosystematic | (adjective) of or relating to biosystematics | - |
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| biosystematics | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematy |
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| biotic | (adjective) of or relating to living organisms | - |
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| biotitic | (adjective) relating to or involving biotite | - |
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| biquadratic | (adjective) involving the fourth and no higher power of a quantity or degree | - |
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| (noun) a polynomial of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic polynomial, quartic polynomial |
| (noun) an equation of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadratic equation |
| (noun) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree | Synonyms: biquadrate, fourth power, quartic |
| bitumastic | (noun) a protective coating of asphalt and filter used on structural metals that are exposed to weathering | - |
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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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| bluetick | (noun) a very fast American hound; white mottled with bluish grey | - |
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| bombastic | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| bombastically | (adverb) in a grandiose manner | Synonyms: grandiosely |
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| (adverb) in a turgid manner | Synonyms: turgidly |
| brattice | (noun) a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine | - |
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| (verb) supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines | - |
| breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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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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| broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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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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| bureaucratically | (adverb) with respect to bureaucracy | - |
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| (adverb) in a bureaucratic manner | - |
| 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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| candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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| cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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| canticle | (noun) a hymn derived from the Bible | - |
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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 |
| casuistical | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistic |
| 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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| catacaustic | (noun) a caustic curve formed by light reflecting from a curved surface. | - |
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| catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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| catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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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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| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot | - |
| cataleptic | (adjective) of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy | - |
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| (noun) a person suffering from catalepsy | - |
| catalytic | (adjective) relating to or causing or involving catalysis | - |
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| catalytically | (adverb) by catalytic action; in a catalytic manner | - |
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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 |
| catechetical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| 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 |
| (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, physic, purgative |
| 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 |
| (noun) the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object | - |
| (noun) any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue | - |
| caustically | (adverb) in a caustic vitriolic manner | Synonyms: vitriolically |
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| cenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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| cenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, 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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| ceroplastics | (noun) the art of modeling in wax. | - |
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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 |
| chaotically | (adverb) in a manner suggestive of chaos | - |
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| (adverb) in a wild and confused manner | - |
| characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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| (noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
| (noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
| (noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
| characteristically | (adverb) in characteristic manner | - |
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| characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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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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| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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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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