acellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: noncellular |
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acetabular | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: cotyloid, cotyloidal |
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acicular | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acerose, needle-shaped |
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alar | (adjective) of or relating to the axil | Synonyms: axillary |
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(adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alary, aliform, wing-shaped |
alular | (adjective) pertaining to alulae | - |
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alveolar | (adjective) pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs | - |
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(adjective) pertaining to the sockets of the teeth or that part of the upper jaw | - |
(noun) a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge | Synonyms: alveolar consonant, dental, dental consonant |
amphiprostylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostyle, amphistylar, porticoed |
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amphistylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, porticoed |
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(adjective) having columns either at both ends or at both sides | - |
ampullar | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullary |
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angular | (adjective) having angles or an angular shape | Synonyms: angulate |
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(adjective) measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle | - |
annular | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annulate, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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appendicular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of an appendage or appendages; especially the limbs | - |
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areolar | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolate |
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arteriolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving arterioles | - |
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articular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the joints of the body | Synonyms: articulary |
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ashlar | (noun) a rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes | - |
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astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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astylar | (adjective) lacking columns or pillars | - |
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atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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auricular | (adjective) of or relating to near the ear | Synonyms: otic |
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(adjective) pertaining to an auricle of the heart | - |
(adjective) relating to or perceived by or shaped like the organ of hearing | - |
auriculoventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: atrioventricular |
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avascular | (adjective) without blood vessels | - |
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avuncular | (adjective) being or relating to an uncle | - |
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(adjective) resembling an uncle in kindness or indulgence | - |
bacillar | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillary |
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(adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
basilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilary |
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biauricular | (adjective) relating to the two auditory openings | - |
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bicapsular | (adjective) divided into two capsules or having a two-part capsule | - |
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bifilar | (adjective) having or using two filaments | - |
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bilocular | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: biloculate |
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bimolecular | (adjective) relating to or affecting two molecules | - |
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binocular | (adjective) relating to both eyes | - |
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biovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova | Synonyms: fraternal |
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bipolar | (adjective) having two poles | - |
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(adjective) of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions | - |
(adjective) of or relating to manic depressive illness | - |
blastular | (adjective) of or relating to a blastula | Synonyms: blastospheric |
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bronchiolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving bronchioles | - |
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burglar | (noun) a thief who enters a building with intent to steal | - |
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calicular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calycular |
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calycular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calicular |
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campanular | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanulate, campanulated |
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canalicular | (adjective) relating to or like or having a canaliculus | - |
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canicular | (adjective) relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star) | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer | - |
cannular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiform |
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capitular | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitulary |
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capsular | (adjective) of or relating to a capsule | - |
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(adjective) resembling a capsule | - |
carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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caruncular | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculous |
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caterpillar | (noun) a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth | - |
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cellar | (noun) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage | Synonyms: basement |
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(noun) storage space where wines are stored | Synonyms: wine cellar |
(noun) an excavation where root vegetables are stored | Synonyms: root cellar |
cellular | (adjective) characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization) | - |
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(adjective) relating to cells | - |
cerebellar | (adjective) relating to or associated with the cerebellum | - |
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cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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circular | (adjective) having the shape or form of a circle | Synonyms: round |
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(adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: orbitual, rotary |
(noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
circumpolar | (adjective) located or found throughout a polar region | - |
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(adjective) (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel | - |
collar | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, pinch, taking into custody |
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(noun) a figurative restraint | Synonyms: leash |
(noun) a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over | Synonyms: neckband |
(noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: choker, dog collar, neckband |
(noun) a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it | - |
(noun) the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot | Synonyms: shoe collar |
(noun) a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part | - |
(noun) anything worn or placed about the neck | - |
(noun) (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal | - |
(verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
(verb) furnish with a collar | - |
(verb) seize by the neck or collar | - |
condylar | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a condyle | - |
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consular | (adjective) having to do with a consul or his office or duties | - |
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copular | (adjective) of or relating to a copula | - |
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corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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cupular | (adjective) shaped like (or supporting) a cupule | Synonyms: cupulate |
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curricular | (adjective) of or relating to an academic course of study | - |
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cuticular | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: dermal, epidermal, epidermic |
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dipolar | (adjective) having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance | - |
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dissimilar | (adjective) not similar | - |
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(adjective) not alike or similar | Synonyms: unalike |
dollar | (noun) a symbol of commercialism or greed | Synonyms: dollar mark, dollar sign |
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(noun) a piece of paper money worth one dollar | Synonyms: buck, clam, dollar bill, one dollar bill |
(noun) a United States coin worth one dollar | - |
(noun) the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents | - |
equiangular | (adjective) having all angles equal | - |
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escolar | (noun) large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes | Synonyms: Lepidocybium flavobrunneum |
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exemplar | (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, good example, model |
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extracellular | (adjective) located or occurring outside a cell or cells | - |
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extracurricular | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extramarital |
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(adjective) outside the regular duties of your job or profession | - |
(adjective) outside the regular academic curriculum | - |
filar | (adjective) related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) | - |
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fistular | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistulate, fistulous |
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follicular | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a follicle | - |
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funicular | (adjective) relating to or operated by a cable | - |
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(noun) a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars | Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway |
glabellar | (adjective) of or relating to the glabella | - |
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glandular | (adjective) relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland | - |
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globular | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
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glomerular | (adjective) of or relating to glomeruli | - |
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granular | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: chondritic |
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(adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granulose, gritty, mealy |
hexangular | (adjective) having six sides or divided into hexagons | Synonyms: hexagonal |
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hilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located near a hilum | - |
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insular | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island | - |
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(adjective) suggestive of the isolated life of an island | - |
(adjective) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope | Synonyms: parochial |
intercellular | (adjective) located between cells | - |
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interlobular | (adjective) between lobes or lobules | - |
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intermolecular | (adjective) existing or acting between molecules | - |
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interstellar | (adjective) between or among stars | - |
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intracellular | (adjective) located or occurring within a cell or cells | - |
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intralobular | (adjective) inside lobes or lobules | - |
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intramolecular | (adjective) within the molecule; occurring by a reaction between different parts of the same molecule | - |
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intramuscular | (adjective) within a muscle | - |
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intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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irregular | (adjective) contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice | - |
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(adjective) (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement | - |
(adjective) (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces | - |
(adjective) deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal | Synonyms: atypical |
(adjective) failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection | - |
(adjective) lacking continuity or regularity | Synonyms: temporary |
(adjective) not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals | Synonyms: unpredictable |
(adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: maverick, unorthodox |
(adjective) (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical | - |
(noun) merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name | Synonyms: second |
(noun) a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment | Synonyms: guerilla, guerrilla, insurgent |
jocular | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, joking |
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(adverb) with humor | Synonyms: jocosely |
jugular | (adjective) relating to or located in the region of the neck or throat | - |
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(noun) a vital part that is vulnerable to attack | - |
(noun) veins in the neck that return blood from the head | Synonyms: jugular vein, vena jugularis |
lenticular | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lentiform |
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lobular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a lobule | - |
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lunisolar | (adjective) relating to or attributed to the moon and the sun or their mutual relations | - |
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macromolecular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or characterized by macromolecules | - |
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majuscular | (adjective) of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules | - |
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