| littoral | (adjective) of or relating to a coastal or shore region | - |
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| (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: litoral, littoral zone, sands |
| lumbosacral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the small of the back and the back part of the pelvis between the hips | - |
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| mayoral | (adjective) of or relating to a mayor or the office of mayor | - |
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| mensural | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: measured, mensurable |
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| (adjective) of or relating to measure | - |
| mineral | (adjective) relating to minerals | - |
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| (adjective) composed of matter other than plant or animal | - |
| (noun) solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition | - |
| mistral | (noun) a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter | - |
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| mitral | (adjective) of or relating to or located in or near the mitral valve | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling the miter worn by some clerics | - |
| monaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with only one ear | - |
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| monopteral | (adjective) having circular columniation | - |
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| moral | (adjective) concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles | - |
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| (adjective) psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect | - |
| (noun) the significance of a story or event | Synonyms: lesson |
| multicultural | (adjective) of or relating to or including several cultures | - |
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| multilateral | (adjective) having many parts or sides | Synonyms: many-sided |
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| mural | (adjective) of or relating to walls | - |
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| (noun) a painting that is applied to a wall surface | Synonyms: wall painting |
| natural | (adjective) (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related | Synonyms: biological |
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| (adjective) in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature | - |
| (adjective) existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation | - |
| (adjective) existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical | - |
| (adjective) (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone | - |
| (adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: born, innate |
| (adjective) functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies | - |
| (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: instinctive |
| (adjective) free from artificiality | Synonyms: lifelike |
| (adjective) (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes | Synonyms: raw, rude |
| (noun) (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake | - |
| (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: cancel |
| (noun) someone regarded as certain to succeed | - |
| neoliberal | (adjective) having or showing belief in the need for economic growth in addition to traditional liberalistic values | - |
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| (noun) a liberal who subscribes to neoliberalism | - |
| neural | (adjective) of or relating to neurons | Synonyms: neuronal, neuronic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the nervous system | Synonyms: nervous |
| neutral | (adjective) having no hue | Synonyms: achromatic |
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| (adjective) possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics | - |
| (adjective) lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics | - |
| (adjective) not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest | - |
| (adjective) having no personal preference | Synonyms: impersonal |
| (adjective) having no net electric charge | Synonyms: electroneutral |
| (adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: indifferent, inert |
| (noun) one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute | - |
| nonliteral | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: figurative |
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| nonnatural | (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: otherworldly, preternatural, transcendental |
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| nonstructural | (adjective) not structural | - |
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| numeral | (adjective) of or relating to or denoting numbers | Synonyms: numeric, numerical |
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| (noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: number |
| (noun) a word expressing a number. | - |
| nurtural | (adjective) resulting from nurture | - |
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| oral | (adjective) of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the surface on which the mouth is located | Synonyms: buccal |
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| (adjective) a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated in the mouth; fixation at this stage is said to result in dependence, selfishness, and aggression | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or affecting or for use in the mouth | - |
| (adjective) using speech rather than writing | Synonyms: unwritten |
| (noun) an examination conducted by spoken communication | Synonyms: oral exam, oral examination, viva, viva voce |
| orchestral | (adjective) relating to or composed for an orchestra | - |
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| outgeneral | (verb) surpass in generalship | - |
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| parenteral | (adjective) located outside the alimentary tract | - |
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| (adjective) administered by means other than through the alimentary tract (as by intramuscular or intravenous injection) | - |
| pastoral | (adjective) of or relating to a pastor | - |
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| (adjective) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle | Synonyms: bucolic |
| (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: arcadian, bucolic |
| (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastorale |
| (noun) a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) | - |
| (noun) a letter from a pastor to the congregation | - |
| pectoral | (adjective) of or relating to the chest or thorax | Synonyms: thoracic |
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| (noun) an adornment worn on the chest or breast | Synonyms: pectoral medallion |
| (noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pecs, pectoral muscle, pectoralis |
| penumbral | (adjective) of or pertaining to the region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| peripheral | (adjective) on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area | - |
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| (adjective) related to the key issue but not of central importance | - |
| (noun) electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer | Synonyms: computer peripheral, peripheral device |
| peripteral | (adjective) having columns on all sides | - |
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| pictural | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of pictures | Synonyms: pictorial |
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| pleural | (adjective) of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax | - |
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| plural | (adjective) grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units | - |
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| (adjective) composed of more than one member, set, or kind | - |
| (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | Synonyms: plural form |
| polyhedral | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a polyhedron | - |
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| postdoctoral | (adjective) of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed | - |
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| (noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoc |
| postural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving posture | - |
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| prefectural | (adjective) of or relating to a prefecture | - |
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| preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
| procedural | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: adjective |
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| (adjective) of or relating to procedure | - |
| procural | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procurance, procurement |
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| pseudoperipteral | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: peristylar |
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| puerperal | (adjective) relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth | - |
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| quadrilateral | (adjective) having four sides | Synonyms: four-sided |
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| (noun) a four-sided polygon | Synonyms: quadrangle, tetragon |
| referral | (noun) the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency) | - |
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| (noun) a recommendation to consult the (professional) person or group to whom one has been referred | - |
| (noun) a person whose case has been referred to a specialist or professional group | - |
| retral | (adjective) moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction | Synonyms: retrograde |
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| (adjective) at or near or toward the posterior | - |
| rhombohedral | (adjective) having threefold symmetry | Synonyms: trigonal |
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| rupestral | (adjective) composed of or inscribed on rock | Synonyms: rupicolous |
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| rural | (adjective) of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city; living in or characteristic of farming or country life; living in or characteristic of farming or country life | - |
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| sacral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the sacrum | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to sacred rites | - |
| scapulohumeral | (adjective) relating to the shoulder blade and upper arm bone | - |
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| scriptural | (adjective) of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible | Synonyms: biblical |
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| (adjective) written or relating to writing | - |
| sculptural | (adjective) relating to or consisting of sculpture | - |
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| (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, modelled, sculptured, sculpturesque |
| semestral | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestrial |
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| sensorineural | (adjective) of or relating to the neural process of sensation | - |
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| sepulchral | (adjective) of or relating to a sepulchre | - |
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| (adjective) suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial | Synonyms: funereal |
| (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: charnel, ghastly |
| sericultural | (adjective) of or relating to sericulture | - |
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| several | (adjective) distinct and individual | - |
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| (adjective) considered individually | Synonyms: respective, various |
| (adjective) (used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many | - |
| sinistral | (adjective) of or on the left | - |
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| (adjective) preferring to use left foot or hand or eye | - |
| sociocultural | (adjective) relating to both social and cultural matters | - |
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| sororal | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterlike, sisterly |
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| spaciotemporal | (adjective) existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration | Synonyms: spatiotemporal |
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| spatiotemporal | (adjective) of or relating to space and time together (having both spatial extension and temporal duration) | - |
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| (adjective) existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration | Synonyms: spaciotemporal |
| spectral | (adjective) of or relating to a spectrum | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spiritual |
| spiral | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| (noun) flying downward in a helical path with a large radius | - |
| (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, helix, volute, whorl |
| (noun) ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center | Synonyms: volute |
| (noun) a continuously accelerating change in the economy | - |
| (noun) a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center | - |
| (noun) a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle | Synonyms: helix |
| (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: coil, gyrate |
| (verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course | Synonyms: corkscrew |
| (verb) form a spiral | - |
| structural | (adjective) relating to or having or characterized by structure | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological |
| (adjective) concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study | - |
| (adjective) affecting or involved in structure or construction | - |
| subdural | (adjective) below the dura mater but above the arachnoid membrane of the meninges | - |
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| sublittoral | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the continental shelf (between the seashore and the edge of the continental shelf) or the marine organisms situated there | - |
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| supernatural | (adjective) not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material | - |
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| (noun) supernatural forces and events and beings collectively | Synonyms: occult |
| temporal | (adjective) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world | Synonyms: secular, worldly |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit) | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or limited by time | - |
| (adjective) of this earth or world | - |
| (adjective) not eternal | - |
| (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: temporal role |
| transcultural | (adjective) extending through all human cultures | - |
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| transferral | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transport, transportation |
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| trilateral | (adjective) having three sides | Synonyms: three-sided, triangular |
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| (adjective) involving three parties | - |
| (noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: triangle, trigon |
| triquetral | (noun) a wrist bone that articulates with the pisiform and hamate and lunate bones | Synonyms: cuneiform bone, os triquetrum, pyramidal bone, triquetral bone |
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| unicameral | (adjective) composed of one legislative body | - |
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| unilateral | (adjective) involving only one part or side | Synonyms: one-sided |
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| (adjective) tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal line only | - |
| unnatural | (adjective) not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature | - |
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| (adjective) not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm | Synonyms: abnormal |
| (adjective) speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression | Synonyms: affected |
| urethral | (adjective) of or relating to the urethra | - |
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| ventral | (adjective) toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal) | - |
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| (adjective) nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism | Synonyms: adaxial |
| vertebral | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting vertebrae | - |
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| viral | (adjective) relating to or caused by a virus | - |
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| visceral | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: splanchnic |
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| (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: intuitive, nonrational |