| acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
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| acarpelous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpellous |
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| acephalous | (adjective) lacking a head or a clearly defined head | - |
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| acidophilous | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, aciduric |
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| acidulous | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulent |
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| adactylous | (adjective) without fingers and/or toes | - |
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| aerophilous | (adjective) depending on free oxygen or air | Synonyms: aerobic, aerophilic |
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| ametabolous | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolic |
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| anemophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind | - |
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| anencephalous | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalic |
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| anomalous | (adjective) deviating from the general or common order or type | - |
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| anthophilous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophagous |
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| apetalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: petalless |
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| aphyllous | (adjective) devoid of leaves | - |
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| arenicolous | (adjective) growing or living or burrowing in sand | - |
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| artiodactylous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla | Synonyms: artiodactyl, even-toed |
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| bibulous | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: boozy, drunken, sottish |
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| bicephalous | (adjective) having two heads | - |
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| brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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| calcicolous | (adjective) growing or living in soil rich in lime | - |
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| calculous | (adjective) relating to or caused by or having a calculus or calculi | - |
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| callous | (adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: indurate, pachydermatous |
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| (adjective) having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear | Synonyms: calloused, thickened |
| (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
| cancellous | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
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| carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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| chlorophyllous | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllose |
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| chylous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylaceous |
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| crapulous | (adjective) given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulent |
| credulous | (adjective) disposed to believe on little evidence | - |
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| (adjective) showing a lack of judgment or experience | - |
| cumulous | (adjective) of or related to cumulous clouds | Synonyms: cumulus |
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| (adjective) thrown together in a pile | - |
| depilous | (adjective) completely hairless | - |
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| edentulous | (adjective) having lost teeth | - |
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| emulous | (adjective) characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation | - |
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| (adjective) eager to surpass others | Synonyms: rivalrous |
| entomophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially orchids etc) that are pollinated by insects | - |
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| fabulous | (adjective) barely credible | - |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing | Synonyms: fab |
| (adjective) based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity | Synonyms: mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological |
| fantabulous | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, first-class, mean, ripping, splendid |
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| fistulous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a fistula | - |
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| (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulate |
| frivolous | (adjective) not serious in content or attitude or behavior | - |
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| gallous | (noun) alternative terms for gallows | Synonyms: gallows-tree, gallows tree, gibbet |
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| gamopetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel | Synonyms: sympetalous |
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| garrulous | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky |
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| hemimetabolous | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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| heterometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolic |
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| holometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolic |
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| homostylous | (adjective) (botany) having styles all of the same length | Synonyms: homostyled, homostylic |
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| incredulous | (adjective) not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving | - |
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| jealous | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, envious |
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| (adjective) suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival | Synonyms: green-eyed, overjealous |
| libellous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libelous, slanderous |
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| libelous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, slanderous |
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| macrencephalous | (adjective) having a large brain case | Synonyms: macrencephalic |
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| macrocephalous | (adjective) having an exceptionally large head and brain | Synonyms: macrocephalic |
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| marvellous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvelous, tall |
| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvelous, miraculous |
| marvelous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvellous, tall |
| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvellous, miraculous |
| metabolous | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolic |
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| meticulous | (adjective) marked by extreme care in treatment of details | - |
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| (adjective) marked by precise accordance with details | Synonyms: punctilious |
| microcephalous | (adjective) having an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain | Synonyms: microcephalic, nanocephalic |
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| miraculous | (adjective) peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention | Synonyms: heaven-sent, providential |
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| (adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvellous, marvelous |
| myrmecophilous | (adjective) living symbiotically with ants | - |
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| nebulous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a nebula | Synonyms: nebular |
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| (adjective) lacking definition or definite content | Synonyms: unfixed |
| (adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: cloudy, nebulose |
| nidicolous | (adjective) (of birds) remaining in the nest for a time after hatching | - |
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| overcredulous | (adjective) too credulous for your own good | - |
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| overjealous | (adjective) suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival | Synonyms: green-eyed, jealous |
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| overzealous | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatic, fanatical, rabid |
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| parlous | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: perilous, precarious, touch-and-go |
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| pendulous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, nodding, weeping |
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| perilous | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: parlous, precarious, touch-and-go |
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| petalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalled |
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| phytophilous | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophagous, plant-eating |
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| pilous | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilary, pilose |
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| polydactylous | (adjective) of or relating to a person (or other vertebrate) having more than the normal number of digits | Synonyms: polydactyl |
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| polypetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of many separated or distinct petals | - |
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| populous | (adjective) densely populated | Synonyms: thickly settled |
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| querulous | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, whiney, whiny |
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| ridiculous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous |
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| (adjective) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce | Synonyms: farcical, ludicrous |
| (adjective) inspiring scornful pity | Synonyms: pathetic, silly |
| rupicolous | (adjective) composed of or inscribed on rock | Synonyms: rupestral |
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| saxicolous | (adjective) growing on or living among rocks | Synonyms: saxatile, saxicoline |
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| scandalous | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, shameful, shocking |
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| scrofulous | (adjective) afflicted with scrofula | - |
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| (adjective) morally contaminated | - |
| (adjective) having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula | - |
| scrupulous | (adjective) having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, painstaking |
| scurrilous | (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: abusive, opprobrious |
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| sedulous | (adjective) marked by care and persistent effort | Synonyms: assiduous |
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| sympetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel | Synonyms: gamopetalous |
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| tremulous | (adjective) (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear | Synonyms: quavering |
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| troublous | (adjective) full of trouble | - |
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| tuberculous | (adjective) constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus | Synonyms: tubercular |
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| unscrupulous | (adjective) without scruples or principles | - |
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| variolous | (adjective) relating to small pox | Synonyms: variolar, variolic |
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| zealous | (adjective) marked by active interest and enthusiasm | Synonyms: avid |
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