Words and phrases whose definition contains characteristic:  (994 results)
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

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