| megaloblastic | (adjective) of or relating to megaloblasts | - |
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| meiotic | (adjective) of or relating to meiosis | - |
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| melodramatic | (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected | Synonyms: histrionic |
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| (adjective) having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama | - |
| mephitic | (adjective) of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution | Synonyms: miasmic |
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| meritocratic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy | - |
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| mesoblastic | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesodermal |
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| mesophytic | (adjective) being or growing in or adapted to a moderately moist environment | - |
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| metastatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by metastasis | - |
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| meteoritic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by meteorites | Synonyms: meteoritical |
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| metic | (noun) an alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city | - |
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| micrometeoritic | (adjective) of or relating to micrometeoroids | Synonyms: micrometeoric |
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| militaristic | (adjective) imbued with militarism | - |
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| mimetic | (adjective) exhibiting mimicry | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis | - |
| miotic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing constriction of the pupil of the eye | Synonyms: myotic |
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| (noun) a drug that causes miosis (constriction of the pupil of the eye) | Synonyms: miotic drug, myotic, myotic drug |
| misogynistic | (adjective) hating women in particular | Synonyms: misogynous |
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| mithraistic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraic |
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| mitotic | (adjective) of or relating to or undergoing mitosis | - |
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| modernistic | (adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modern |
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| monastic | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical |
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| (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monk |
| monistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of monism | - |
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| monochromatic | (adjective) (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength | Synonyms: homochromatic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to monochromatism | - |
| (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochrome, monochromic, monochromous |
| monopolistic | (adjective) having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant | - |
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| monotheistic | (adjective) believing that there is only one god | - |
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| monozygotic | (adjective) derived from a single fertilized egg | - |
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| moralistic | (adjective) narrowly and conventionally moral | - |
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| morganatic | (adjective) (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior | Synonyms: left-handed |
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| mydriatic | (noun) a drug that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate; used to aid eye examinations | Synonyms: mydriatic drug |
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| myotic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing constriction of the pupil of the eye | Synonyms: miotic |
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| (noun) a drug that causes miosis (constriction of the pupil of the eye) | Synonyms: miotic, miotic drug, myotic drug |
| myrmecophytic | (adjective) of or relating to myrmecophytes | - |
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| mystic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of mysticism | Synonyms: mystical |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling mysticism | Synonyms: mystical |
| (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystical, occult, orphic, secret |
| (noun) someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension | Synonyms: religious mystic |
| narcissistic | (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-loving |
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| narcoleptic | (adjective) of or relating to narcolepsy | - |
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| (noun) a soporific drug that produces an uncontrollable desire to sleep | - |
| (noun) a person who has narcolepsy | - |
| narcotic | (adjective) of or relating to or designating narcotics | - |
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| (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotising, narcotizing |
| (adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: soporiferous, soporific |
| (noun) a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction | - |
| nationalistic | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalist |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| nativistic | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating nativism | Synonyms: nativist |
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| (adjective) advocating the perpetuation of native societies | Synonyms: nativist |
| natriuretic | (adjective) of or relating to natriuresis | - |
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| naturalistic | (adjective) representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | Synonyms: realistic |
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| naturistic | (adjective) in accord with naturism | - |
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| necromantic | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantical |
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| (adjective) given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead | - |
| necrotic | (adjective) relating to or affected by necrosis | - |
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| neoclassicistic | (adjective) relating to or advocating neoclassicism | Synonyms: neoclassicist |
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| neoplastic | (adjective) of or related to or having the properties of a neoplasm | - |
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| nephritic | (adjective) of or relating to the kidneys | Synonyms: renal |
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| (adjective) affected by nephritis | - |
| neritic | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep | - |
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| (adjective) relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast | - |
| neuroleptic | (noun) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired | Synonyms: antipsychotic, antipsychotic agent, antipsychotic drug, major tranquilizer, major tranquilliser, major tranquillizer, neuroleptic agent, neuroleptic drug |
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| neurotic | (adjective) affected with emotional disorder | Synonyms: psychoneurotic |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or affected by neurosis | - |
| (noun) a person suffering from neurosis | Synonyms: mental case, psychoneurotic |
| nihilistic | (adjective) of or relating to nihilism | - |
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| noetic | (adjective) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind | Synonyms: intellectual, rational |
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| nominalistic | (adjective) of or relating to nominalism | - |
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| nomothetic | (adjective) relating to or involving the search for abstract universal principles | - |
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| nonenzymatic | (adjective) not relating to or produced by enzymes | - |
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| nonlinguistic | (adjective) not consisting of or related to language | - |
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| nonmagnetic | (adjective) not capable of being magnetized | - |
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| nonmechanistic | (adjective) not mechanistic | - |
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| nonparasitic | (adjective) not parasitic on another organism | Synonyms: free-living, nonsymbiotic |
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| nonphotosynthetic | (adjective) not photosynthetic | - |
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| nonsymbiotic | (adjective) not parasitic on another organism | Synonyms: free-living, nonparasitic |
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| nonsynthetic | (adjective) involving or derived from living organisms; free from chemical treatments or additives | - |
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| onomastic | (adjective) of or related to onomastics | - |
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| onomatopoetic | (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by onomatopoeia | Synonyms: onomatopoeic |
| ontogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the origin and development of individual organisms | - |
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| operatic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of opera | - |
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| opportunistic | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunist, timeserving |
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| optic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the eye | Synonyms: ocular, ophthalmic, optical |
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| (adjective) relating to or using sight | Synonyms: ocular, optical, visual |
| (noun) the organ of sight | Synonyms: eye, oculus |
| optimistic | (adjective) expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds | - |
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| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: affirmative |
| organicistic | (adjective) relating to or tending toward organicism | - |
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| orgiastic | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing |
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| (adjective) used of frenzied sexual activity | - |
| orthodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing orthodontics | - |
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| orthoptic | (adjective) of or relating to normal binocular vision | - |
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| orthostatic | (adjective) pertaining to an upright standing posture | - |
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| osmotic | (adjective) of or relating to osmosis | - |
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| otic | (adjective) of or relating to near the ear | Synonyms: auricular |
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| overenthusiastic | (adjective) unduly enthusiastic | - |
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| pacifistic | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifist |
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| paederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: pederastic |
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| palingenetic | (adjective) of or relating to palingenesis | - |
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| pancreatic | (adjective) of or involving the pancreas | - |
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| panoptic | (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, wide |
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| (adjective) including everything visible in one view | Synonyms: panoptical |
| pantheistic | (adjective) of or relating to pantheism | Synonyms: pantheist |
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| papistic | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistical, popish, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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| paradigmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a typical example | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a grammatical paradigm | - |
| (adjective) related as members of a substitution class | - |
| paralytic | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of paralysis | Synonyms: paralytical |
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| (adjective) affected with paralysis | Synonyms: paralyzed |
| (noun) a person suffering from paralysis | - |
| paramagnetic | (adjective) of or relating to a paramagnet | - |
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| paraphrastic | (adjective) altered by paraphrasing | - |
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| parasitic | (adjective) of or pertaining to epenthesis | Synonyms: epenthetic |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by parasites | Synonyms: parasitical |
| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: bloodsucking, leechlike, parasitical |
| parasympathetic | (adjective) of or relating to the parasympathetic nervous system | - |
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| (noun) originates in the brain stem and lower part of the spinal cord; opposes physiological effects of the sympathetic nervous system: stimulates digestive secretions; slows the heart; constricts the pupils; dilates blood vessels | Synonyms: parasympathetic nervous system |
| parasympathomimetic | (adjective) having an effect similar to that resulting from stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system | - |
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| parenthetic | (adjective) qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses | Synonyms: parenthetical |
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| paretic | (noun) a person afflicted with paresis (partial paralysis) | - |
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| parthenogenetic | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, agamous, apomictic |
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| particularistic | (adjective) relating to particularism (exclusive interest in one group or class or sect etc.) | - |
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| paternalistic | (adjective) benevolent but sometimes intrusive | - |
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| pathetic | (adjective) inspiring mixed contempt and pity | Synonyms: pitiable, pitiful |
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| (adjective) inspiring scornful pity | Synonyms: ridiculous, silly |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
| patriotic | (adjective) inspired by love for your country | Synonyms: loyal |
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| patristic | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristical |
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| pectic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from pectin | - |
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| pedantic | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, donnish |
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| pederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: paederastic |
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| peptic | (adjective) relating to or promoting digestion | - |
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| periodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing periodontics | Synonyms: periodontal |
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