| aboulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: abulic |
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| abulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: aboulic |
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| acetylic | (adjective) of or related to acetic acid | - |
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| acidophilic | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilous, aciduric |
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| acromegalic | (adjective) marked or affected by enlargement or hypertrophy of the extremities or the face | - |
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| acrylic | (noun) a synthetic fabric made from polyacrylonitrile | - |
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| (noun) used especially by artists | Synonyms: acrylic paint |
| (noun) a glassy thermoplastic; can be cast and molded or used in coatings and adhesives | Synonyms: acrylate resin, acrylic resin |
| (noun) polymerized from acrylonitrile | Synonyms: acrylic fiber |
| acyclic | (adjective) not cyclic; especially having parts arranged in spirals rather than whorls | - |
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| (adjective) having an open chain structure | Synonyms: open-chain |
| aerophilatelic | (adjective) of or relating to airmail stamps | - |
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| aerophilic | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerobic, aerophilous |
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| alcoholic | (adjective) characteristic of or containing alcohol | - |
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| (adjective) addicted to alcohol | Synonyms: alcohol-dependent |
| (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse |
| alkalic | (adjective) relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7 | Synonyms: alkaline |
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| alkylic | (adjective) of or related to an alkyl | - |
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| allelic | (adjective) of or relating to alleles | Synonyms: allelomorphic |
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| allylic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the allyl radical | - |
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| ametabolic | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolous |
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| (adjective) undergoing no (or only slight) metamorphosis | - |
| anabolic | (adjective) characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism | - |
| anencephalic | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalous |
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| angelic | (adjective) of or relating to angels | Synonyms: angelical |
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| (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelical, beatific, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
| (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet |
| apostolic | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolical |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolical, papal, pontifical |
| archangelic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling archangels | Synonyms: archangelical |
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| autotelic | (adjective) of or relating to or believing in autotelism | - |
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| basophilic | (adjective) staining readily with basic dyes | - |
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| benzylic | (adjective) relating to benzyl | - |
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| bibliophilic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliophiles | - |
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| bibliopolic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliopoles | - |
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| bicyclic | (adjective) having molecules consisting of two fused rings | - |
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| bimetallic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallistic |
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| (adjective) formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together | Synonyms: bimetal |
| blastocoelic | (adjective) of or relating to a segmentation cavity | - |
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| brachycephalic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycranial, brachycranic |
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| (noun) an adult with a short broad head | - |
| brachydactylic | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylous |
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| bucolic | (adjective) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle | Synonyms: pastoral |
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| (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: arcadian, pastoral |
| (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: eclogue, idyl, idyll |
| (noun) a country person | Synonyms: peasant, provincial |
| cacodylic | (adjective) of or relating to cacodyl | - |
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| cannibalic | (adjective) marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage | - |
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| carbocyclic | (adjective) having or relating to or characterized by a ring composed of carbon atoms | - |
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| carbonylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonyl |
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| carboxylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxyl |
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| catabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
| catholic | (adjective) free from provincial prejudices or attachments | - |
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| cephalic | (adjective) of or relating to the head | - |
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| colic | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: gripes, griping, intestinal colic |
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| cyclic | (adjective) recurring in cycles | Synonyms: cyclical |
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| (adjective) of a compound having atoms arranged in a ring structure | - |
| (adjective) forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl | - |
| (adjective) conforming to the Carnot cycle | - |
| (adjective) marked by repeated cycles | - |
| cytomegalic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells | - |
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| dactylic | (adjective) of or consisting of dactyls | - |
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| diabolic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diastolic | (adjective) of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole | - |
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| dicarboxylic | (adjective) containing two carboxyls per molecule | - |
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| dolichocephalic | (adjective) having a relatively long head with a cephalic index of under 75 | Synonyms: dolichocranial, dolichocranic |
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| (noun) an adult with a long narrow head | - |
| embolic | (adjective) of or relating to an embolism or embolus | - |
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| enolic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of enol | - |
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| eosinophilic | (adjective) of or relating to eosinophil | - |
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| epicyclic | (adjective) of or relating to an epicycle | Synonyms: epicyclical |
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| exilic | (adjective) of or relating to a period of exile (especially the exile of the Jews known as the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
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| extrasystolic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening during an extrasystole | - |
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| frolic | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, gambol, play, romp |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
| garlic | (noun) aromatic bulb used as seasoning | Synonyms: ail |
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| (noun) bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves | Synonyms: Allium sativum |
| haemophilic | (adjective) relating to or having hemophilia | Synonyms: hemophilic |
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| hemimetabolic | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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| hemophilic | (adjective) relating to or having hemophilia | Synonyms: haemophilic |
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| heterocyclic | (adjective) containing a closed ring of atoms of which at least one is not a carbon atom | - |
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| (noun) a compound containing a heterocyclic ring | Synonyms: heterocycle, heterocyclic compound |
| heterometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolous |
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| holometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolous |
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| homocyclic | (adjective) containing a closed ring of atoms of the same kind especially carbon atoms | Synonyms: isocyclic |
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| homostylic | (adjective) (botany) having styles all of the same length | Synonyms: homostyled, homostylous |
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| hydraulic | (adjective) of or relating to the study of hydraulics | - |
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| (adjective) moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil) | - |
| hydrocephalic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by or evidencing hydrocephalus | - |
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| hydrophilic | (adjective) having a strong affinity for water; tending to dissolve in, mix with, or be wetted by water | - |
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| hyperbolic | (adjective) of or relating to a hyperbola | - |
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| (adjective) enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness | Synonyms: inflated |
| idyllic | (adjective) excellent and delightful in all respects | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene | - |
| imbecilic | (adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years | Synonyms: idiotic, imbecile |
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| isocyclic | (adjective) containing a closed ring of atoms of the same kind especially carbon atoms | Synonyms: homocyclic |
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| italic | (adjective) characterized by slanting characters | - |
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| (noun) a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right | - |
| (noun) a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right | - |
| katabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
| lipophilic | (adjective) having an affinity for lipids | Synonyms: lipotropic |
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| macrencephalic | (adjective) having a large brain case | Synonyms: macrencephalous |
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| macrocephalic | (adjective) having an exceptionally large head and brain | Synonyms: macrocephalous |
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| melancholic | (adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholy |
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| (noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholiac |
| metabolic | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to metabolism | - |
| metallic | (adjective) containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal | Synonyms: metal |
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| (noun) a yarn made partly or entirely of metal | - |
| (noun) a fabric made of a yarn that is partly or entirely of metal | - |
| microcephalic | (adjective) having an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain | Synonyms: microcephalous, nanocephalic |
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| monocarboxylic | (adjective) containing one carboxyl group | - |
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| monometallic | (adjective) containing one atom of metal in the molecule | - |
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| myelic | (adjective) of or relating to bone marrow cells | Synonyms: myeloid |
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| nanocephalic | (adjective) having an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain | Synonyms: microcephalic, microcephalous |
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| nonalcoholic | (adjective) characterized by the absence of alcohol | - |
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| noncyclic | (adjective) not cyclic | Synonyms: noncyclical |
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| (adjective) not having repeated cycles | - |
| nonmetallic | (adjective) not containing or resembling or characteristic of a metal | Synonyms: nonmetal |
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| nonpublic | (adjective) not invested with or related to prominent position or status etc. | - |
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| nontricyclic | (noun) a class of antidepressant drugs that are not tricyclic drugs and do not act by inhibiting MAO | Synonyms: nontricyclic antidepressant, nontricyclic antidepressant drug, nontricyclic drug |
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| oleophilic | (adjective) having a strong affinity for oils rather than water | - |
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| oxalic | (adjective) of or derived from oxalic acid | - |
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| parabolic | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolical |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolical |
| parhelic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a parhelion | Synonyms: parheliacal |
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| phallic | (adjective) relating to a phallus especially as an embodiment of generative power | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or being a phallus | Synonyms: priapic |
| phenolic | (noun) a thermosetting resin | Synonyms: phenolic resin, phenoplast |
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| philatelic | (adjective) of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists | Synonyms: philatelical |
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| postexilic | (adjective) of or relating to the period in Jewish history after 539 BC (after the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
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| psychedelic | (adjective) (of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair | - |
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| (adjective) having the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states | - |
| (adjective) producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings or altered states of awareness or sometimes states resembling psychosis | - |
| public | (adjective) not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole | - |
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| (adjective) affecting the people or community as a whole | - |
| (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: populace, world |
| (noun) a body of people sharing some common interest | - |
| pyrogallic | (adjective) of or relating to pyrogallol | - |
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| relic | (noun) an antiquity that has survived from the distant past | - |
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| (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: keepsake, souvenir, token |