| postbiblical | (adjective) subsequent to biblical times | - |
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| practical | (adjective) concerned with actual use or practice | - |
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| (adjective) having or put to a practical purpose or use | - |
| (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, hardheaded, pragmatic |
| (adjective) being actually such in almost every respect | Synonyms: virtual |
| pragmatical | (adjective) of or concerning the theory of pragmatism | Synonyms: pragmatic |
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| (adjective) concerned with practical matters | Synonyms: matter-of-fact, pragmatic |
| preclinical | (adjective) of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared | Synonyms: presymptomatic |
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| prehistorical | (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistoric |
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| premedical | (adjective) preparing for the study of medicine | - |
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| (adjective) preceding and preparing for the study of medicine | - |
| problematical | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, tough |
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| (adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: debatable, problematic |
| prophetical | (adjective) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention | Synonyms: prophetic |
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| prototypical | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypal, archetypical, prototypal, prototypic |
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| protozoological | (adjective) concerning the branch of zoology that studies protozoans | - |
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| provencal | (adjective) of or relating to Provence or its people or their culture | - |
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| psychiatrical | (adjective) relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry | Synonyms: psychiatric |
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| psychical | (adjective) affecting or influenced by the human mind | Synonyms: psychic |
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| (adjective) outside the sphere of physical science | Synonyms: psychic |
| psychoanalytical | (adjective) of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: psychoanalytic |
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| psychological | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by psychology | - |
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| (adjective) mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature | - |
| psychopathological | (adjective) suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder | Synonyms: psychopathic, psychopathologic |
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| psychopharmacological | (adjective) of or relating to psychopharmacology | - |
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| pteridological | (adjective) of or relating to the study of ferns | - |
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| puritanical | (adjective) of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism | - |
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| (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanic |
| (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| pyramidical | (adjective) resembling a pyramid | Synonyms: pyramidal, pyramidic |
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| pyrochemical | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by chemical reactions at high temperatures | - |
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| pyroelectrical | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting pyroelectricity | Synonyms: pyroelectric |
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| pyrotechnical | (adjective) of or relating to the craft of making fireworks | Synonyms: pyrotechnic |
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| quizzical | (adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: questioning |
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| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: mocking, teasing |
| rabbinical | (adjective) of or relating to rabbis or their teachings | Synonyms: rabbinic |
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| radical | (adjective) especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root | - |
| (adjective) arising from or going to the root or source | - |
| (adjective) (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm | Synonyms: extremist, ultra |
| (adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: revolutionary |
| (noun) a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram | - |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, root, root word, stem, theme |
| (noun) a person who has radical ideas or opinions | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule | Synonyms: chemical group, group |
| (noun) an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule | Synonyms: free radical |
| radiological | (adjective) of or relating to radiology | - |
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| radiopharmaceutical | (noun) pharmaceutical consisting of a radioactive compound used in radiation therapy | - |
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| rascal | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
| reciprocal | (adjective) concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return | Synonyms: mutual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function | - |
| (noun) hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype | Synonyms: reciprocal cross |
| (noun) (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7 | Synonyms: multiplicative inverse |
| (noun) something (a term or expression or concept) that has an inverse relation to something else | - |
| rheological | (adjective) of or relating to rheology | Synonyms: rheologic |
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| rhetorical | (adjective) given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to rhetoric | - |
| rhythmical | (adjective) recurring with measured regularity | Synonyms: rhythmic |
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| sabbatical | (adjective) of or relating to sabbatical leave | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Sabbath | Synonyms: sabbatic |
| (noun) a leave usually taken every seventh year | Synonyms: sabbatical leave |
| satirical | (adjective) exposing human folly to ridicule | Synonyms: satiric |
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| satyrical | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of a satyr | Synonyms: satyric |
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| scatological | (adjective) dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions | - |
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| sceptical | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, questioning, skeptical |
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| (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: disbelieving, skeptical, unbelieving |
| schismatical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism | Synonyms: schismatic |
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| seismological | (adjective) of or concerned with seismology | Synonyms: seismologic |
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| semiautobiographical | (adjective) of or relating to a work that combines autobiography and fiction | - |
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| semiempirical | (adjective) relying to some extent on observation or experiment | - |
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| semiotical | (adjective) of or relating to semiotics | Synonyms: semiotic |
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| semipolitical | (adjective) political in some (but not all) aspects | - |
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| semitropical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, subtropic, subtropical |
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| seraphical | (adjective) of or relating to an angel of the first order | Synonyms: seraphic |
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| seriocomical | (adjective) mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating | Synonyms: seriocomic |
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| serological | (adjective) of or relating to serology | Synonyms: serologic |
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| servomechanical | (adjective) of or involving servomechanisms | Synonyms: servo |
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| skeptical | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, questioning, sceptical |
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| (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: disbelieving, sceptical, unbelieving |
| sociobiological | (adjective) of or relating to sociobiology | Synonyms: sociobiologic |
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| sociological | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by sociology | - |
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| sophistical | (adjective) plausible but misleading | Synonyms: sophistic |
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| soteriological | (adjective) of or relating to soteriology | - |
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| spectroscopical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving spectroscopy | Synonyms: spectroscopic |
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| spherical | (adjective) of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere | - |
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| (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric |
| staphylococcal | (adjective) of or relating to the staphylococcus bacteria | - |
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| statistical | (adjective) of or relating to statistics | - |
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| stenographical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing stenography | Synonyms: stenographic |
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| stereotypical | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypic, unimaginative |
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| stoical | (adjective) seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive | Synonyms: stoic |
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| strategical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategic |
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| streptococcal | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: strep, streptococcic |
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| subclinical | (adjective) relating to the stage in the development of a disease before the symptoms are observed | - |
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| subcortical | (adjective) of or relating to or being or involving nerve centers below the cerebral cortex | - |
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| subtropical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, semitropical, subtropic |
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| supercritical | (adjective) (especially of fissionable material) able to sustain a chain reaction in such a manner that the rate of reaction increases | - |
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| surgical | (adjective) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine | Synonyms: operative |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or involving or used in surgery | - |
| (adjective) performed with great precision | - |
| symbolical | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | Synonyms: symbolic |
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| (adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, emblematical, symbolic |
| symmetrical | (adjective) having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts | Synonyms: symmetric |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, proportionate |
| syncretical | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretistic, syncretistical |
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| (adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretistic, syncretistical |
| syncretistical | (adjective) of or characterized by syncretism | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistic |
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| (adjective) relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections | Synonyms: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistic |
| synecdochical | (adjective) using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it | Synonyms: synecdochic |
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| synoptical | (adjective) presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament | Synonyms: synoptic |
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| syntactical | (adjective) of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax | Synonyms: syntactic |
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| synthetical | (adjective) involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis | Synonyms: synthetic |
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| (adjective) of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts | Synonyms: synthetic |
| tactical | (adjective) of or pertaining to tactic or tactics | - |
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| tautological | (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: pleonastic, redundant, tautologic |
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| taxonomical | (adjective) of or relating to taxonomy | Synonyms: systematic, taxonomic |
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| technical | (adjective) characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill | Synonyms: proficient |
| (adjective) of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles | Synonyms: technological |
| (adjective) according to strict interpretation of the law or set of rules | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with machinery or tools | Synonyms: mechanical, mechanically skillful |
| (adjective) of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood | Synonyms: expert |
| (adjective) resulting from or dependent on market factors rather than fundamental economic considerations | - |
| (noun) (basketball) a foul that can be assessed on a player or a coach or a team for unsportsmanlike conduct; does not usually involve physical contact during play | Synonyms: technical foul |
| (noun) a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it | - |
| technological | (adjective) of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles | Synonyms: technical |
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| (adjective) based in scientific and industrial progress | - |
| teleological | (adjective) of or relating to teleology | - |
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| terminological | (adjective) of or concerning terminology | - |
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| thalamocortical | (adjective) relating to or connecting the cortex and thalamus | - |
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| theatrical | (adjective) suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the theater | - |
| (noun) a performance of a play | Synonyms: histrionics, representation, theatrical performance |
| theistical | (adjective) of or relating to theism | Synonyms: theist, theistic |
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| theological | (adjective) of or relating to or concerning theology | - |
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| theoretical | (adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations | Synonyms: theoretic |
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| (adjective) concerned with theories rather than their practical applications | - |
| theosophical | (adjective) of or relating to theosophy | - |
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| therapeutical | (adjective) relating to or involved in therapy | Synonyms: therapeutic |
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| thermodynamical | (adjective) of or concerned with thermodynamics | Synonyms: thermodynamic |
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| thermoelectrical | (adjective) involving or resulting from thermoelectricity | Synonyms: thermoelectric |
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| tical | (noun) the basic unit of money in Thailand | Synonyms: baht |
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| topical | (adjective) of or relating to or arranged by topics | - |
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| (adjective) of interest at the present time | - |
| (adjective) pertaining to the surface of a body part | - |
| topographical | (adjective) concerned with topography | Synonyms: topographic |
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| topological | (adjective) of or relating to topology | Synonyms: topologic |
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| toxicological | (adjective) of or relating to toxicology | Synonyms: toxicologic |
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| tragical | (adjective) very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction | Synonyms: tragic |
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| tragicomical | (adjective) having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics | Synonyms: tragicomic |
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| (adjective) manifesting both tragic and comic aspects | Synonyms: tragicomic |
| tropical | (adjective) of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator) | Synonyms: tropic |
| (adjective) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense | - |
| (adjective) of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics | Synonyms: tropic |