acetonic | (adjective) of or relating to acetone | - |
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aleuronic | (adjective) of or related to aleurone | - |
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allochronic | (adjective) (of taxa) occurring in different geologic times | - |
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allophonic | (adjective) pertaining to allophones | - |
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amnionic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amniotic |
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anachronic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronistic, anachronous |
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anionic | (adjective) of or relating to anions | - |
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(noun) a class of synthetic detergents in which the molecules do not ionize in aqueous solutions | Synonyms: anionic detergent, non-ionic detergent |
aniseikonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the visual defect aniseikonia | - |
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anticyclonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center | - |
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antimonic | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonious |
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aphonic | (adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | Synonyms: voiceless |
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architectonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to construction or architecture | Synonyms: tectonic |
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atonic | (adjective) (used of syllables) carrying no stress | Synonyms: unaccented |
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(adjective) characterized by a lack of tonus | - |
autochthonic | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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avionic | (adjective) of or relating to avionics | - |
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azonic | (adjective) not restricted to any particular zone or region | - |
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benthonic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water | Synonyms: benthal, benthic |
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bionic | (adjective) of or relating to bionics | - |
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(adjective) having particular physiological functions augmented or replaced by electronic or electromechanical components | - |
boronic | (adjective) of or relating to boron | - |
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boustrophedonic | (adjective) of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions | - |
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bubonic | (adjective) of or evidencing buboes | - |
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cacodaemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodemonic |
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cacodemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodaemonic |
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cacophonic | (adjective) having an unpleasant sound | Synonyms: cacophonous |
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canonic | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonical |
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(adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonical |
(adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonical, sanctioned |
(adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonical |
carbonic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carboniferous, carbonous |
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catatonic | (adjective) characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs | - |
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cationic | (adjective) of or relating to cations | - |
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chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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chronic | (adjective) being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering | - |
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(adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: continuing |
(adjective) habitual | Synonyms: inveterate |
chthonic | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonian, nether |
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clonic | (adjective) of or relating to abnormal neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscle contraction and relaxation | - |
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colonic | (adjective) of or relating to the colon | - |
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(noun) a water enema given to flush out the colon | Synonyms: colonic irrigation |
conic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a cone | Synonyms: cone-shaped, conelike, conical |
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(noun) (geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone | Synonyms: conic section |
cosmogonic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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cryonic | (adjective) of or relating to cryonics | - |
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cyclonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonical |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonical |
cytoarchitectonic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectural |
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demonic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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diachronic | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: historical |
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diatonic | (adjective) based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals | - |
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(adjective) based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music | - |
electronic | (adjective) of or relating to electronics; concerned with or using devices that operate on principles governing the behavior of electrons | - |
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(adjective) of or concerned with electrons | - |
embryonic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryotic |
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(adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryologic, embryonal |
endergonic | (adjective) (biochemistry) of a process accompanied by or requiring the absorption of energy; the products of the process are of greater free energy than the reactants | - |
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eudaemonic | (adjective) producing happiness and well-being | Synonyms: eudemonic |
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eudemonic | (adjective) producing happiness and well-being | Synonyms: eudaemonic |
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euphonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by euphony | Synonyms: euphonical |
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exergonic | (adjective) (biochemistry) of a process accompanied by the release of energy | - |
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harmonic | (adjective) of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds | - |
(adjective) of or relating to harmonics | - |
(adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
(adjective) relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body | Synonyms: sympathetic |
(noun) any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental | - |
(noun) a tone that is a component of a complex sound | - |
hedonic | (adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: epicurean, hedonistic |
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histrionic | (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected | Synonyms: melodramatic |
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homophonic | (adjective) having a single melodic line with accompaniment | - |
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(adjective) having the same sound | - |
hydroponic | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, aquicultural |
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hypertonic | (adjective) (of a solution) having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution | - |
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(adjective) (of living tissue) in a state of abnormally high tension | - |
hypotonic | (adjective) (of a solution) having a lower osmotic pressure than a comparison solution | - |
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(adjective) (of living tissue) lacking normal tone or tension | - |
iconic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an icon | - |
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infrasonic | (adjective) having frequencies below those of audible sound | - |
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inharmonic | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, disharmonious, dissonant |
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ionic | (adjective) containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions | - |
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ironic | (adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: dry, ironical, wry |
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(adjective) characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is | Synonyms: ironical |
isogonic | (adjective) having or making equal angles | - |
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isotonic | (adjective) (used of solutions) having the same or equal osmotic pressure | Synonyms: isosmotic |
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(adjective) of or involving muscular contraction in which tension is constant while length changes | - |
(adjective) relating to or characterized by the equal intervals of a musical scale | - |
(adjective) of two or more muscles; having equal tension | - |
laconic | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, curt, terse |
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macaronic | (adjective) of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together | - |
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masonic | (adjective) of or relating to stonemasons or masonry | - |
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mesonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to a meson | Synonyms: mesic |
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microelectronic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of miniature electronic components | - |
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mnemonic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemotechnic, mnemotechnical |
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(noun) a device (such as a rhyme or acronym) used to aid recall | - |
monophonic | (adjective) consisting of a single melodic line | - |
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(adjective) designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel | Synonyms: mono, single-channel |
monotonic | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotone |
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(adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonous |
moronic | (adjective) having a mental age of between eight and twelve years | - |
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myotonic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by myotonia | - |
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neuronic | (adjective) of or relating to neurons | Synonyms: neural, neuronal |
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nonharmonic | (adjective) not harmonic | - |
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nonionic | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionised, nonionized, unionised, unionized |
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(adjective) not ionic | Synonyms: nonpolar |
nonmonotonic | (adjective) not monotonic | - |
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pentatonic | (adjective) relating to a pentatonic scale | - |
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philharmonic | (adjective) composing or characteristic of an orchestral group | - |
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(adjective) devoted to or appreciative of music | - |
(noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: symphony, symphony orchestra |
phonic | (adjective) of or relating to speech sounds | Synonyms: phonetic |
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(adjective) relating to speech | - |
(adjective) pertaining to the phonic method of teaching reading | - |
planktonic | (adjective) of or relating to plankton | - |
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platonic | (adjective) free from physical desire | - |
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plutonic | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: irruptive |
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pneumonic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pulmonary, pulmonic |
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(adjective) pertaining to or characterized by or affected by pneumonia | - |
polyphonic | (adjective) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together | Synonyms: contrapuntal |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characterized by polyphony | Synonyms: polyphonous |
(adjective) having two or more phonetic values | - |
postganglionic | (adjective) beyond or distal to a ganglion (referring especially to the unmyelinated fibers that originate from cells in autonomic ganglia) | - |
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pulmonic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonary |
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quadraphonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadrasonic, quadriphonic, quadrisonic |
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quadrasonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadriphonic, quadrisonic |
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quadriphonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadrasonic, quadrisonic |
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quadrisonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadrasonic, quadriphonic |
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radiophonic | (adjective) relating to or by means of radiotelephony | Synonyms: radiotelephonic |
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radiotelephonic | (adjective) relating to or by means of radiotelephony | Synonyms: radiophonic |
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sardonic | (adjective) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | Synonyms: snarky |
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sonic | (adjective) (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level | Synonyms: transonic |
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(adjective) relating to audible sound | - |
stereophonic | (adjective) designating the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels | Synonyms: stereo, two-channel |
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subsonic | (adjective) (of speed) less than that of sound in a designated medium | - |
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subtonic | (noun) (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale | Synonyms: leading tone |
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supersonic | (adjective) (of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air) | - |
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(adjective) having frequencies above those of audible sound | Synonyms: ultrasonic |
supertonic | (noun) (music) the second note of a diatonic scale | - |
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symphonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic or suggestive of a symphony | - |
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(adjective) harmonious in sound | Synonyms: symphonious |