| COTERMINOUS | • coterminous adj. Meeting end to end or at the ends. • coterminous adj. (Geography) Having matching boundaries; or, adjoining and sharing a boundary. • coterminous adj. (By extension) Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time. |
| ENDOCRINOUS | • endocrinous adj. (Dated) endocrine. • ENDOCRINOUS adj. relating to the endocrine glands. |
| FARRAGINOUS | • farraginous adj. (Now rare) Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate. • FARRAGINOUS adj. like a farrago, miscellaneous, jumbled. |
| FERRUGINOUS | • ferruginous adj. Containing iron. • ferruginous adj. Rusty. • ferruginous adj. Rust-colored. |
| INQUILINOUS | • inquilinous adj. (Biology) That lives in the dwelling place of another species. • INQUILINOUS adj. living in another's nest. |
| LENTIGINOUS | • lentiginous adj. Of, pertaining to, resembling or having lentigines. • LENTIGINOUS adj. freckled, minutely dotted, also LENTIGINOSE. |
| LUMBAGINOUS | • lumbaginous adj. Of or pertaining to lumbago. • LUMBAGINOUS adj. relating to lumbago. |
| MONOCLINOUS | • monoclinous adj. (Botany) bisexual. • MONOCLINOUS adj. having pistils and stamens in same flower. |
| MOUNTAINOUS | • mountainous adj. Having many mountains; characterized by mountains; of the nature of a mountain; rough (terrain); rocky. • mountainous adj. Resembling a mountain, especially in size; huge; towering. • mountainous adj. (Figurative, of a problem or task) Very difficult. |
| NONLUMINOUS | • nonluminous adj. Not luminous. • non-luminous adj. Not capable of producing light, but possibly capable of reflecting light from another source. • NONLUMINOUS adj. not luminous. |
| PORRIGINOUS | • porriginous adj. Having or relating to the disease porrigo. • PORRIGINOUS adj. suffering from porrigo, a scalp disease that causes baldness. |
| PRURIGINOUS | • pruriginous adj. (Medicine) Tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of the nature of, prurigo. • PRURIGINOUS adj. relating to prurigo. |
| SALSUGINOUS | • salsuginous adj. (Botany) Growing in brackish places or in salt marshes. • SALSUGINOUS adj. salty; brackish; growing in salty soil. |
| SERPIGINOUS | • serpiginous adj. Creeping, advancing. • SERPIGINOUS adj. spreading by creeping. |
| TENTIGINOUS | • tentiginous adj. (Obsolete) stiff; stretched; strained. • tentiginous adj. (Obsolete) lustful. • TENTIGINOUS adj. morbidly lascivious. |
| TORPEDINOUS | • torpedinous adj. Exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid. • TORPEDINOUS adj. numbing. |
| VERTIGINOUS | • vertiginous adj. Having an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards. • vertiginous adj. (Pharmacology) Inducing a feeling of giddiness, vertigo, dizziness or of whirling. • vertiginous adj. Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings). |
| VORTIGINOUS | • vortiginous adj. Moving rapidly round a centre; vortical. • VORTIGINOUS adj. like a vortex, whirling, also VORTICAL, VORTICOSE, VORTICULAR. |