Words and phrases whose definition contains characteristic: (994 results)
arch, band, blue, bray, call, cant, caw, clack, click, cluck, cry, dead, dome, flow, form, greek, hold, hop, hops, humped, jain, jowl, kind, laugh, life, low, male, moo, mood, name, neigh, note, play, point, purr, ring, scotch, scots, shout, slang, smack, song, sort, speak, speech, spot, squeal, streak, stuff, style, swing, tai, taste, test, thai, vain, wale, welsh, welt, wheal, youth, zone
accent, afghan, alpine, argot, asian, aspect, baltic, baptist, bearing, belgian, birdcall, birdsong, birth pangs, boyish, boylike, british, briton, brumal, built-in, burlesque, burmese, cackle, canine, carriage, carry, casebook, celtic, charming, chinese, chordate, christian, clannish, classic, cliquish, clubby, cockney, color, colour, comic, common, cosmic, costume, costumed, creole, crookback, crookbacked, cuban, cubist, culture, czarist, danish, deep-eyed, distaff, earmark, earthlike, earthly, eastern, english, fascist, fashion, feature, female, feudal, finnish, floral, flowing, fluid, folksy, foreign, formal, fossil, freakish, friendly, gaelic, gaggle, genoese, genre, gentile, gentle, georgian, german, girlish, gobble, gothic, grecian, guinean, gumma, haitian, hallmark, hebrew, hee-haw, hiemal, homespun, human, humor, humour, humpbacked, hunchback, hunchbacked, inbuilt, insane, irish, jainist, jargon, javan, kenyan, knightly, landa, larval, latin, legal, lemon, leonine, life form, lingo, liquid, local, lowbrow, lowbrowed, lupine, magic, magnet, magyar, malay, maleness, manful, manlike, manly, mannish, mantic, maroc, mature, metric, mind-set, mindless, mindset, mirrored, mobbish, moblike, modern, mod con, moorish, moresque, mormon, mystic, nature, negroid, nicker, non-u, norman, northern, old-world, orphic, outlook, palette, pallet, passport, patois, plague spot, posture, priestlike, priestly, promptness, prussian, puerile, punic, racial, ratlike, reagin, roman, runny, rural, russian, rustic, rydberg, saxon, schizoid, scottish, semite, shinto, silvan, slavish, snobbish, snobby, social, southern, spanish, spartan, springtail, structure, stylemark, swazi, swedish, swollen, sylvan, temper, temperate, texan, textbook, texture, thallus, throwback, trademark, tragic, tribal, tropic, tsarist, turkish, turkmen, tuscan, tzarist, umbel, urban, vatic, vernal, virile, vital, voiceprint, vulgar, vulpine, western, whicker, whinny, wholesome, wifelike, wifely, wintry, wolfish, wolflike, woodsy, worldly, zairese, zeitgeist
aegean, afghani, agedness, aggressive, agrestic, alaskan, alien, alsatian, amharic, ammino, amorphous, andorran, anglican, angolan, anguillan, animal, annelid, antiguan, arabic, archaic, area, argentine, artistic, ascetic, assamese, attracter, attraction, attractor, attribute, augustan, auroral, australian, autistic, autumnal, avian, babyish, bahraini, balletic, ballistic, baptistic, bengali, bermudan, blue-blooded, bodily, bosnian, boyishness, brahminic, brazilian, brotherlike, brotherly, bruneian, burundi, byzantine, calcuttan, calendric, calling card, calvinist, cambrian, canonist, carboxyl, carpetbag, caspian, catalan, chadian, character, childishness, chilean, chivalric, choragic, classical, collective, conceited, confucian, congolese, corporal, corporate, corporeal, corsican, countrified, countryfied, critical, croatian, cubistic, cyclonal, cyclonic, czaristic, damascene, deictic, despotic, dialect, dramatic, dynastic, east german, echoic, echolike, egyptian, eucaryote, eukaryote, exotic, fascistic, femaleness, feminine, filial, fingerprint, flamenco, florentine, formosan, fraternal, galwegian, gambian, genovese, ghanaian, ghanese, ghanian, gibbous, girlishness, glaswegian, guyanese, hadean, hawaiian, hebraic, hellenic, herbaceous, heroic, hibernal, hollow-eyed, hollywood, homeric, hominine, honduran, husbandly, idiom, immature, inclusion, indian, infantile, infernal, inherent, insular, integral, irritate, israeli, italian, japanese, javanese, jesuit, jovian, judaic, julian, juvenile, kashmiri, ketone group, korean, kyphotic, labor pains, labour pains, laputan, latvian, lebanese, line of thought, liquidness, lutheran, magical, maidenlike, maidenly, malayan, malaysian, malian, maritime, maternal, matronly, medieval, mercantile, metallic, methodist, milanese, mimesis, minoan, modern-day, modulate, moldovan, monacan, monegasque, mongoloid, moraceous, moroccan, musical, mystical, national, nepalese, nepali, neurotic, nonmetal, nonmodern, nouveau-riche, numinous, odorous, onion dome, organic, orthodox, outdoorsy, ovine, parental, parisian, parvenu, parvenue, paternal, patrician, peasanthood, philippine, phosphoric, phosphorous, platonic, poetic, portuguese, precocious, primitive, promptitude, provincial, puppyish, puppylike, purkinje cell, quality, recessive, regency, regional, register, relation, represent, reversion, rhizomorph, ritual, romantic, rosaceous, rousseauan, ruminant, sapiens, schismatic, scholarly, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, seamanlike, seamanly, self-loving, selling point, semitic, senescence, sepaline, sepaloid, separate, shintoist, siamese, sibyllic, sibylline, sisterlike, sisterly, solid-state, somatic, sorcerous, sororal, soviet, specialised, specialized, submissive, subtropic, suburban, sudanese, summery, sunken-eyed, symphonic, syrian, tahitian, taiwanese, tendency, , thievishly, tibetan, timorese, transalpine, tropical, tsaristic, tubercle, tundra soil, tyrolese, ugandan, unstructured, vanilla, vaporish, vaporous, vapourish, vatical, vegetable, venetian, viennese, virginal, wesleyan, wintery, wizardly, womanly, yemeni, youthfulness, yugoslav, zairean, zambian, zionist
algerian, allegoric, alterable, american, amphibian, amphibious, ankylotic, annelidan, anopheline, anorthitic, apogean, apoplectic, apostrophic, ascetical, ascomycetous, atavism, atavistic, athenian, aurorean, austronesian, autocratic, bahamian, bangladeshi, barbadian, bavarian, belligerent, beninese, betulaceous, bhutanese, biology, bisontine, blood brotherhood, bolivian, brahminical, branchiopod, bulgarian, burundian, calendrical, californian, calvinistic, cambodian, carboxyl group, carnivorous, characterize, cinematic, coefficient, collembolan, colloquial, colombian, colonial, condescending, conspirative, continental, contrapuntal, corinthian, cracker-barrel, cyclonical, delivery, demagogic, diagnostic, dialectal, diplomatic, discomycetous, disposition, dominican, edwardian, egotistic, elegiac, epileptic, episcopal, eritrean, european, exemplify, expressive style, feminineness, feudalistic, filipino, fin de siecle, gilbertian, graeco-roman, greco-roman, greek orthodox, grenadian, guatemalan, gymnospermous, haemoglobin, hebraical, hellenistic, hemoglobin, hesperian, hindustani, histrionic, hungarian, identify, impressionist, inaugural, inclination, indirectness, indonesian, inferior, inorganic, iridaceous, isopteran, jesuitic, jordanian, judaical, kampuchean, kyrgyzstani, liliaceous, lilliputian, lineament, liquidity, literary, luxemburger, make vibrant sounds, malawian, manchurian, mancunian, matriarchal, mentality, microcosmic, military, morning sickness, mortuary, municipal, mycenaean, narcissistic, neoclassic, new zealander, nipponese, nonmetallic, nontechnical, north korean, occidental, officialese, oleaceous, oligarchic, operatic, oriental, oxonian, pachydermal, pachydermic, pachydermous, paraguayan, passerine, patriarchal, patronising, patronizing, pentecostal, peruvian, philharmonic, philosophic, piedmont glacier, piratical, piscatory, planetary, plasmodium, platonistic, plutocratic, plutonian, poetical, political, praetorian, pre-raphaelite, pretorian, processional, professional, providential, puerility, rabelaisian, raptorial, rationalist, recessive gene, republican, reputation, romanian, romanticist, roumanian, rumanian, ruralism, rurality, rydberg constant, rydberg unit, salvadoran, sardinian, schismatical, schizogony, schizophrenic, sectarian, self-conceited, semitropic, senegalese, septicemic, shintoistic, siberian, sicilian, slovakian, slovenian, social event, social structure, social system, sonata form, southernism, south african, south korean, specialistic, subservient, subtropical, superior, swollen-headed, symptomatic, tartarean, terrestrial, thallophytic, theatrical, thermionic, tragicomic, transcendental, tyrannical, tyrolean, ukrainian, ultramontane, uninteresting, untechnical, unworkmanlike, uruguayan, uxorial, vaporific, variety, venezuelan, vernacular, vicarial, vietnamese, vulpecular, zimbabwean
afghanistani, allegorical, alliaceous plant, angiospermous, aniseikonic, anticyclonic, argentinian, aristocratic, arterial plaque, atomic spectrum, attractive feature, bignoniaceous, blastomycotic, branchiopodan, branchiopodous, brobdingnagian, calvinistical, cameroonian, cannibalistic, carthaginian, characterise, congregational, constitutional, contemporary, conversational, cross-pollinating, demagogical, dictatorial, distinctive feature, divinatory, eastern orthodox, east pakistani, ecuadorian, editorial, egotistical, ethiopian, hellenistical, impressionistic, inclusion body, individual, isomerism, jeffersonian, jesuitical, jewish-orthodox, juvenility, leptosporangium, lithuanian, lusitanian, luxembourgian, manner of speaking, masculinity, maternalism, melodramatic, meridional, meritocratic, metropolitan, neapolitan, neoclassical, neuromuscular, nonpasserine, north american, oligarchical, oratorical, pachydermatous, panamanian, pheasant under glass, philosophical, piscatorial, plumbaginaceous, plutocratical, primitivism, professorial, proletarian, puritanism, radio beacon, rastafarian, recommendation, regionalism, representative, romanticistic, ruritanian, russian orthodox, salvadorean, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing, self-pollinating, semitropical, south american, stagflationary, tajikistani, uncultivated, unprofessional, untheatrical, uzbekistani, victoriana, yugoslavian
afro-american, ambassadorial, americanism, aposiopetic, aristocratical, aromatic compound, authoritarian, autobiographic, avitaminotic, basidiomycetous, cellular inclusion, central american, characteristically, characteristic curve, colloquialism, conceptualistic, congregationalist, conspiratorial, denominational, episcopalian, german-american, humanitarian, intonation pattern, mediterranean, occidentalism, orientalism, peculiarity, piedmont type of glacier, polemoniaceous, professionalism, protogeometric, system of measurement
african-american, autobiographical, bibliomaniacal, characterisic function, magnetic dipole moment, social organisation, social organization, valerianaceae, valerian family, valetudinarian
branched chain ketoaciduria, distinguishing characteristic, family valerianaceae, x-linked dominant inheritance
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