aboral | (adjective) opposite to or away from the mouth | - |
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admiral | (noun) any of several brightly colored butterflies | - |
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(noun) the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral | Synonyms: full admiral |
agricultural | (adjective) relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming | - |
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(adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, farming |
ambulacral | (adjective) pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms | - |
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ancestral | (adjective) of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor | - |
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(adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible |
antheral | (adjective) capable of fertilizing female organs | Synonyms: staminate |
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antiviral | (adjective) inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses | - |
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(noun) any drug that destroys viruses | Synonyms: antiviral agent, antiviral drug |
apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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apteral | (adjective) having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides | - |
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(adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apterous |
aquacultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquicultural, hydroponic |
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aquicultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, hydroponic |
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arbitral | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitrational |
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architectural | (adjective) of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture | - |
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astral | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: stellar |
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aural | (adjective) relating to or characterized by an aura | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to hearing or the ear | - |
auroral | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: aurorean |
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(adjective) of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras | - |
austral | (adjective) of the south or coming from the south | - |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos | - |
balmoral | (noun) a sturdy laced walking shoe | - |
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behavioral | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioural |
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behavioural | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioral |
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biaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with two ears | Synonyms: binaural |
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bicameral | (adjective) composed of two legislative bodies | - |
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(adjective) consisting of two chambers | Synonyms: two-chambered |
bilateral | (adjective) having two sides or parts | Synonyms: two-sided |
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(adjective) affecting or undertaken by two parties | - |
(adjective) having identical parts on each side of an axis | Synonyms: bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical, isobilateral |
binaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with two ears | Synonyms: biaural |
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blastoporal | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporic |
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cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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caesural | (adjective) of or relating to a caesura | - |
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campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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cathedral | (adjective) relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne | - |
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(noun) any large and important church | - |
(noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | Synonyms: duomo |
central | (adjective) in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | - |
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(adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal |
(noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | Synonyms: exchange, telephone exchange |
cerebral | (adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: intellectual |
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(adjective) of or relating to the cerebrum or brain | - |
chaparral | (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: bush, scrub |
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cheliceral | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: chelicerate |
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chimeral | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeric, chimerical |
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choral | (adjective) related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir | - |
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(noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: chorale |
clitoral | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoric |
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cloistral | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical |
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collateral | (adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: indirect |
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(adjective) situated or running side by side | - |
(adjective) additional but secondary; auxiliary; | - |
(adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
(adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
(noun) a security pledged for the repayment of a loan | - |
conferral | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, bestowment, conferment |
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conjectural | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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connatural | (adjective) normally existing at birth | Synonyms: inborn, inbred |
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(adjective) similar in nature | - |
contralateral | (adjective) on or relating to the opposite side (of the body) | - |
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coral | (adjective) of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color | - |
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(noun) marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs | - |
(noun) a variable color averaging a deep pink | - |
(noun) unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces | - |
(noun) the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry | Synonyms: precious coral, red coral |
corporal | (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
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(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporeal, somatic |
(noun) a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines | - |
corral | (noun) a pen for cattle | Synonyms: cattle pen, cow pen |
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(verb) enclose in a corral | - |
(verb) arrange wagons so that they form a corral | - |
(verb) gather and secure | - |
crural | (adjective) of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot | - |
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cultural | (adjective) of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors | - |
(adjective) relating to the raising of plants or animals | - |
(adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: ethnic, ethnical |
cytoarchitectural | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonic |
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deferral | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferment, postponement |
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(noun) a state of abeyance or suspended business | Synonyms: recess |
demurral | (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demur, demurrer |
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dextral | (adjective) of or on the right | - |
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(adjective) preferring to use right foot or hand or eye | - |
diametral | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical |
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doctoral | (adjective) of or relating to a doctor or doctorate | Synonyms: doctorial |
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dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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dural | (adjective) of or relating to the dura mater | - |
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electoral | (adjective) of or relating to elections | - |
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(adjective) relating to or composed of electors | - |
electroneutral | (adjective) having no net electric charge | Synonyms: neutral |
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enteral | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteric |
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(adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteric, intestinal |
enthral | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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ephemeral | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory |
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(noun) anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form | Synonyms: ephemeron |
epidural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: extradural |
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(noun) regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery | Synonyms: epidural anaesthesia, epidural anesthesia |
equilateral | (adjective) having all sides or faces equal | - |
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(noun) a figure whose sides are all equal | - |
exaugural | (adjective) occurring at or marking the close of a term of office | - |
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extradural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: epidural |
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extramural | (adjective) carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community | - |
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federal | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the central government of a federation | - |
(adjective) national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units | - |
femoral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the femur or thigh | - |
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fenestral | (adjective) of or relating to windows | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or having a fenestra | - |
feral | (adjective) wild and menacing | Synonyms: ferine, savage |
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figural | (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figurative |
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floral | (adjective) of or relating to the plant life in a particular region | - |
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(adjective) relating to or associated with flowers | - |
(adjective) resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers | Synonyms: flowered |
floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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folderal | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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funeral | (noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated | Synonyms: obsequy |
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furfural | (noun) a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent | Synonyms: furfuraldehyde |
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general | (adjective) applying to all or most members of a category or group | - |
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(adjective) affecting the entire body | - |
(adjective) prevailing among and common to the general public | - |
(adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
(adjective) somewhat indefinite | - |
(adjective) not specialized or limited to one class of things | - |
(noun) a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular) | - |
(noun) a general officer of the highest rank | Synonyms: full general |
(noun) the head of a religious order or congregation | Synonyms: superior general |
(verb) command as a general | - |
gestural | (adjective) being other than verbal communication | Synonyms: nonverbal |
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(adjective) used of the language of the deaf | Synonyms: sign-language, sign, signed |
goral | (noun) small goat antelope with small conical horns; of southern Asian mountains | Synonyms: Naemorhedus goral |
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guttural | (adjective) relating to or articulated in the throat | - |
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(adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: croaky |
(noun) a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat | Synonyms: guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant |
gyral | (adjective) relating to or associated with or comprising a convolution of the brain | - |
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horticultural | (adjective) of or relating to the cultivation of plants | - |
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humoral | (adjective) of or relating to bodily fluids | - |
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hypaethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypethral |
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hypethral | (adjective) partly or entirely open to the sky | Synonyms: hypaethral |
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icosahedral | (adjective) of or relating to an icosahedron | - |
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illiberal | (adjective) narrow-minded about cherished opinions | Synonyms: intolerant |
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immoral | (adjective) deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong | - |
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(adjective) not adhering to ethical or moral principles | Synonyms: base |
inaugural | (adjective) occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction | - |
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(adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, initiative, initiatory, maiden |
(noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inauguration |
(noun) an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) | Synonyms: inaugural address |
integral | (adjective) of or denoted by an integer | - |
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(adjective) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | Synonyms: built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, inherent |
(adjective) constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged | Synonyms: entire, intact |
(noun) the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x) | - |
intermural | (adjective) between two or more institutions etc | - |
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intervertebral | (adjective) pertaining to the space between two vertebrae | - |
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intracerebral | (adjective) within the brain | - |
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intramural | (adjective) carried on within the bounds of an institution or community | - |
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ipsilateral | (adjective) on or relating to the same side (of the body) | - |
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isobilateral | (adjective) having identical parts on each side of an axis | Synonyms: bilateral, bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical |
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jural | (adjective) of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | Synonyms: juristic |
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lateral | (adjective) lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body | - |
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(adjective) situated at or extending to the side | Synonyms: sidelong |
(noun) a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer | Synonyms: lateral pass |
liberal | (adjective) tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition | - |
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(adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: broad, large-minded, tolerant |
(adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, openhanded |
(adjective) not literal | Synonyms: free, loose |
(adjective) having political or social views favoring reform and progress | - |
(noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberalist, progressive |
(noun) a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets | - |
literal | (adjective) limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text | - |
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(adjective) without interpretation or embellishment | - |
(adjective) avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis) | - |
(adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: actual, genuine, real |
(noun) a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind | Synonyms: erratum, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error |
litoral | (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: littoral, littoral zone, sands |
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